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The restroom at night.

Gildeskål, Norway

Uredd Rest Area (Ureddplassen)

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

Green Springs
Permanently Closed

New Bern, North Carolina

Green Springs

This multi-story wooden waterpark offers homemade thrills.

Broken Glass Villa.

Passau, Germany

Broken Glass Villa

Shimmering sea-colored mosaics and Jesus statues cover this opulent building.

The supposedly upside-down windows on the first floor.

Savannah, Georgia

Sears Mishap House Myth

Local myth claims this is a Sears catalogue home with its windows installed upside-down.

Look for the gnome!

Denver, Colorado

Hidden Elves at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

Paxton Gate Exterior

San Francisco, California

Paxton Gate

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

The cisterns, like this one at Sanchez St and Duboce Ave, are marked a circle of red bricks in the street.

San Francisco, California

1908 Cistern Circles

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

Mozart, as seen by artist Markus Lüpertz.

Salzburg, Austria

Hommage to Mozart

This strange statue features a bust of the famous composer plopped atop a woman's body.

The Quetzalcoatl sculpture looks best up-close and from the front.

San Jose, California

Quetzalcóatl Sculpture

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

The sand dunes.

Ngorongoro, Tanzania

Shifting Sand Dunes

These strange piles of magnetized volcanic ash travel across the desert about 50 feet per year.

Cahuachi

Nazca, Peru

Cahuachi

Nazca pilgrimage site covering 370 acres is a popular stop for archeologists and looters.

The Spider (Nazca Lines)

Nazca, Peru

Nazca Lines

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

Lite-A-Line
Permanently Closed

Long Beach, California

Looff's Lite-A-Line

The creator of the carousel's bingo-pinball hybrid survives in California's oldest gaming establishment.

Brookhurst Community Park

Anaheim, California

Brookhurst Community Park

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

The Skinny House

Long Beach, California

The Skinniest House in America

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

Memorial to Mahomet Weyonomon.

London, England

Memorial to Mahomet Weyonomon

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

The entrance to the sculpture garden

Cerritos, California

Cerritos Sculpture Garden

A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.

Lady of the Lake

North Pole, Alaska

Lady of the Lake

An abandoned aircraft sits submerged in a lake in the Alaska wilderness.

Kong Lor Cave.

Laos

Kong Lor Cave

A boat ride through utter darkness, lit only by headlamps, reveals an emerald green pool locals believe is sacred.

Casa da Pedra Cave

Iporanga, Brazil

Gruta Casa de Pedra

At 705 feet high, Brazil's "House of Stone" is the largest cave mouth in the world.

A portion of the ruins. This is a photo from the rear of the manor.
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Summerville, Georgia

Corpsewood Manor

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

The arch provides a beautiful frame for the scenery.

Stazzema, Italy

Monte Forato

A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.

Fantastic Pit

Walker County, Georgia

Fantastic Pit

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

The four-ton Mintrop ball

Göttingen, Germany

Wiechert Earthquake Station

Home to the world’s oldest seismograph and a four-ton steel ball that makes its own earthquakes.

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