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Ornate lobby of a police station is decorated with colorful murals by Augusto Giacometti.

Residing quietly in suburban Maryland, this tree has a star-powered history and was grown from a seed that journeyed to space on Apollo 14.

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.

The Brutalist building harbors an unusual inverted dome that swoops down over its central sacred room.

This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.

A historic arena where the Beatles played their first concert in the U.S.

An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

A total of 14 men held the title of "president" before George Washington—their historical legacies are enshrined in the lobby of a hotel.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

The meeting of the northwestern corner of Delaware, the northeastern corner of Maryland, and the southern edge of Pennsylvania.

Visit a fourth-generation farm and museum dedicated to everyone's favorite fungi.

A narrow strip of land is home to the tallest migrating dunes in Europe.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

A bronze sculpture of Lenin’s likeness outside Havana surrounded by 12 human figures in solidarity with the Bolshevik Revolution.

Named for the DeFoe novel inspired by a stranded sailor, this island is known for its rare plants and extreme beauty.

Final resting place of the most prolific Fijian cannibal of all time.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

The collection is exhibited in a Staten Island building modeled on traditional Himalayan architecture.

During the American Revolution, this mansion hosted failed peace talks between the British and Americans.