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Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

An unexpected sinkhole in a desert flat within Gold Butte National Monument.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

A mysterious crater-like pond has a spooky tendency to empty and fill with complete disregard to rainfall patterns.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Descend into the world’s longest-running deep anthracite coal mine.

The train collection of an eccentric New England seafood mogul is now a National Historical Site.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

An icy behemoth that towers over you with a blue ice cave in the winter and a roaring creek in the summer.

This island only appears in winter once the surrounding waters have frozen over.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

A giant roll of mints marks the birthplace of one of America's most famous candy brands.

A colossal watermelon slice celebrating Muscatine’s sweet agricultural heritage.

Kay Andrews's recipe was so good, her family immortalized it in stone.

This giant dish located in a sheep paddock was the primary receiver of Apollo 11 TV transmissions.

When humans abandoned this safari lodge, the lions took over.

Some 20,000 dust-covered unwanted vehicles languish in the desert.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.