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A whimsical roadside community of little metal people.

A unique gallery filled with art that is interactive, accessible, and generates a ripple effect of creativity

When beetles destroyed these trees, they found new life as fantasy sculptures.

This house covered in small stones was the work of one man over the course of nearly 30 years.

This oddities museum and folk art environment encourages visitors to play, explore, create, and even add to the environment itself.

Papier-mâché folk art recognizing horrors of slave trade.

This house is one of the most colorful in the country, and is the last remaining example of a historic villa.

During an annual Catholic feast in this tiny Spanish village, men dressed as devils leap over rows of babies to cleanse them of sin.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

Each year, Germany's "City of Dragons" slays the world's largest walking robot.

In this coastal town, the time-honored tradition of reenacting the struggle between the Christians and Moors includes the arrival of the Moorish fleet.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

A tiny museum in Esperance, Australia, displays a bunch of space debris from NASA’s Skylab.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.

The wartime boat shelter now doubles as an underground concert hall where musicians play on rafts along the waterway.

All that remains of Jacques Cousteau's 1960s underwater "village."

This $62 million dollar temple was erected to house one little dental fragment of religious history.

These stairs were built to accommodate royals mounted on elephants.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

Hauntingly beautiful totem poles left by the Haida.