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In the main dining room, a nine-ton boulder caps the fireplace designed by local architect Earl Young.

A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

Where else would you expect to find the gravesite of European royalty than the windswept dunes of rural Northern Michigan?

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

An odd and heartwarming stone marker enshrines the moment a community saved a farmer's pig that fell in a well.

Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

This historic oak tree has been around for over 300 years and might last for 300 more so long as it doesn't fall apart first.

Carved faces add a touch of magic to this island's impressive oak trees.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.

This bar hosts an ever-evolving napkin art installation devoted to an American president.

This taxidermy horse was a Civil War hero.

Occult books, tarot, oddities.

An ancient engraving by the Cammeraygal people was uncovered in the transformation of a North Sydney industrial site.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.

The bones of two medieval royal lions were discovered at the historic fortress.

It's a mystery why these remains were found with no traces of their bodies in sight.

These morbid carvings remind churchgoers of the inevitability of death.

One of the figures in this Celtic sculpture continues to puzzle archaeologists.

Hackney's newest private museum and natural curiosity shop.