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Englewood Post Office

Chicago, Illinois

Englewood Post Office

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Sanstha Mandir.

Bartlett, Illinois

BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Sanstha Mandir Chicago

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

As there are no street signs on Carroll Avenue, people spray paint both locations and overhead cross streets to keep others from getting lost

Chicago, Illinois

Carroll Avenue

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

Rainbo Club

Chicago, Illinois

Rainbo Club

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

Tourists to Floyd Collins' coffin in Crystal Cave
Permanently Closed

Cave City, Kentucky

Floyd Collins Museum

A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.

Life station by Confluence of the Ohio River and Mississippi River at Fort Defiance.

Cairo, Illinois

Fort Defiance Park

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

The Super Super Museum!

Metropolis, Illinois

The Super Museum

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

The monument.

Imler, Pennsylvania

Lost Children of the Alleghenies Monument

It marks the spooky spot where the bodies of two young boys were found in the 19th century.

Mother Mary Cleophas Foley

West Terre Haute, Indiana

Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes

A wartime promise becomes a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes.

France Park

Logansport, Indiana

France Park

This former Indiana quarry has been transformed into a park and SCUBA site where divers can explore the drowned mining equipment.

Schimpff's Kitchen

Jeffersonville, Indiana

Schimpff's Confectionery

This candy shop has been serving up sweets to the Louisville area since the 1850s.

Providence Home Geode Grotto

Jasper, Indiana

Providence Home Geode Grotto

One man's vision and a labor of love of many.

The restaurant's collection of "gift certificates."

Agoura Hills, California

The Old Place Restaurant

The beloved dining spot stands at the cross-section of Hollywood and the Old West.

Constanța Casino

Constanța, Romania

Constanța Casino

Once an opulent Art Nouveau hotspot, the Constanța Casino is one of Romania's most beautiful abandoned buildings.

The Phillips Mausoleum, with its distinctive dome

Tallahassee, Florida

The Phillips Mausoleum

This historic crypt was said to have been designed and built by the very person who is buried inside of it.

Hanford Reactor

Richland, Washington

Hanford Site

Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.

Bust in the corner under the sign

George, Washington

George Washington Bust in George, WA

A bust of the first president welcomes visitors to the only town in America called George, Washington.

Bigar Waterfall

Caraș-Severin, Romania

Bigar Waterfall

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

Ehrenberg Pioneer Cemetery.

Ehrenberg, Arizona

Ehrenberg Pioneer Cemetery

The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.

The logo as seen via satellite

Arica, Chile

World's Largest Coca-Cola Logo

70,000 empty bottles of Coke comprise an ad seen only from the air.

Giant skeleton sculpture.

Foligno, Italy

Calamita Cosmica

The giant skeleton sculpture is surprisingly well-traveled.

Close-up of the horse, obviously in need of some maintenance.

Thirsk, England

Kilburn White Horse

England's largest white horse isn't even white.

Atacama Giant

Huara, Chile

Atacama Giant

One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.

Tree molds.

La Pine, Oregon

Lava Cast Forest

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

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