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Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.

An ancient hotspot for spotting schools of fish.

This witch statue remembers a time in England's history when fear trumped truth.

The world's smallest commercial theater is set up in what was once a urinal for Victorian men.

A writer's tiny retreat built from salvaged shipwreck timbers.

Unusual British home built to disguise a water tower.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

The mouldering remains of a disgraced British children's icon are hidden in the brush of a public park.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.

Puzzles within puzzles hide a golden treasure in this hedge maze.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The biggest and deepest Cold War bunker open to the public can be found in southeast England.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

Fantastically decorated underground chambers built in the 1760s.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.