Jaipur, India
Jantar Mantar
The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.
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Jaipur, India
The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.
Memphis, Tennessee
The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.
Sanca, British Columbia
This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.
Columbus, Georgia
Shaped like a big top tent, this memorial honors the victims of a terrible train wreck.
Barnesville, Georgia
A mural in rural Georgia welcomes visitors to a fictional Missouri town.
Alcoa, Tennessee
One man’s religious convictions led him to build this stone castle meant to withstand an apocalypse.
Gays, Illinois
This historic lavatory leftover features two levels of defecation stations completely without context.
Casey, Illinois
The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.
Elsah, Illinois
First known as the "Sample House," this construction mash-up was meant to be a living catalogue of building styles.
Collinsville, Illinois
Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.
Lesterville, Missouri
Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.
Kernersville, North Carolina
Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.
Clear Lake, Iowa
A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.
Pioneer, Louisiana
This ancient settlement contains some of the largest earthen mounds in North America.
Pensacola, Florida
The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.
Greeneville, Tennessee
A cannonball from Union forces battling John Hunt Morgan made this church a permanent home.
Wichita, Kansas
The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.
Corbin, Kentucky
The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Key West, Florida
The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.
Estero, Florida
Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.
Marco Island, Florida
An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.
Key West, Florida
These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.
Ramhormoz, Iran
Leaking natural gas never stops burning on this hill, making it an infinite inferno.
Singapore
Across this single-file rope bridge is what has been claimed to be the edge of continental Asia.