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A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

The final resting place of a circus performer who went by the pseudonym "General Tom Thumb."

This monument commemorates an aeronaut who allegedly flew a plane before the Wright brothers.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement served food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

Built in 1869, this now-retired structure looks more like a medieval fortress than a county lock-up.

This odd stone memorial remembers a loyal dog who offended the rail barons with his speed and saved his master with his pee.

An Art Deco gem that held together the artistic heart of an agricultural community for 92 years.

A mysterious monument covered in a binary code marks the heart of tech.

This small-town park in southern Illinois has a 1,000,000-gallon swimming pool and a 100,000-barrel oil well.

A gothic church dedicated to the love of wine.

Jurassic Park in South Africa.

Sculpture park built by a 50-year-old widow.

A mesmerizing sculpture marks the site where the activist was arrested after evading capture for 17 months.

The original goat tower, the one that started it all.

Hundreds of Roman amphorae are stored in an ususpecting underground parking lot.

Once an ancient Roman bath, now a hotbed of geothermal energy and a hub for energetic innovations.

A great white whale sculpture now sits in the location where the remains of a prehistoric cetacean were found.

This spectrum of a star was observed by one of the world's most accurate spectrographs. 

The only surviving relic of the abandoned Dominican convent.

This sculpture honors the legacy of Australia's now-defunct, Black Rock Stakes wheelbarrow race.

A giant, bloody battle rages throughout the Bolivian Andes each year.

The link between these two seemingly disparate themes is crucial to the history of this Tuscan hill town.

Legends of time travel and magical woodland creatures bolster the natural charm of this verdant sanctuary in the midst of Moscow.

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.