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The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

Akureyri is home to an oversized can of one of Iceland's favourite beers.

A different Edgar Allan Poe built this charming Victorian home.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

This concrete sculpture features a woman opening her heart to showcase a beautiful fern.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

Amid the sprawling Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is one of Washington's least accessible museums.

Art deco landmark on the outskirts of Washington, D.C.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.