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Dr. Rufus B. Weaver and the nervous system of Harriet Cole.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Nervous System of 'Harriet Cole'

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

Nemocón Salt Mine.

Nemocón, Colombia

Nemocón Salt Mine

Colorful lights and mirror-like brine pools create trippy illusions within the historic mine.

Mount Tanigawa

Minakami, Japan

Mount Tanigawa

This little known mountain has claimed four times as many lives as Everest.

The two mice eating cheese. Or are they fighting for it?

London, England

Philpot Lane Mice Sculpture

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

Every winter, the museum and its many picture windows become encapsulated in romantic and terrifying drifts of snow

Tokamachi, Japan

Echigo-Matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

Monkeys lounging in the hot springs of the park

Yamanouchi, Japan

Jigokudani Monkey Park

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

Giant gorilla from 2017 festival.

Niigata, Japan

Wara Art

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

Knapp’s Castle
Permanently Closed

Santa Barbara, California

Knapp’s Castle

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

Abandoned sugar silos in 2009. (Wikimedia Commons)
Permanently Closed

Santa Maria, California

Betteravia Sugar Plant

Factory that once supported an entire company town of 350.

25 Sep 2023

Solvang, California

OstrichLand USA

Get up close to emus and ostriches, or buy their tasty meat.

Lompoc Valley Drive-In Theatre.

Lompoc, California

Lompoc Valley Drive-In

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

King Arthur's Stone.

Camelford, England

King Arthur's Stone

A 6th-century stone lies at the site of the mythical battle waged between King Arthur and his nemesis Mordred.

The Spirit of Enterprise

Haverhill, England

The Spirit of Enterprise

A large piece of modern art makes this roundabout the only one in the world with its own laser.

The Bures Dragon.

Bures, England

Bures Dragon

A hill carving of the legendary dragon that terrorized the village of Bures in the Middle Ages.

Nullarbor Links

Border Village, Australia

Nullarbor Links

The holes in the world's longest golf course are in a series of different towns.

Readymix logo on the Nullarbor Plain.

Caiguna, Australia

Giant Readymix Logo

Some of the world's largest letters are carved into the limestone bedrock of the Nullarbor Plain.

The small window looks more like a crack in the wall.

Hull, England

England's Smallest Window

What looks like missing grout is actually an old pub's peephole.

Poledník lookout tower.

Prášily, Czechia

Poledník Lookout Tower

A Cold War secret surveillance tower used to spy on radio communications.

Yeoman Warders Club.

London, England

Yeoman Warders Club

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

Twisted Trees

Speers, Saskatchewan

Twisted Trees

The Twisted Trees of Alticane are an unnerving grove of Quaking Aspen, apparently mutated from a single source, giving them a twisted and unnatural appearance.

The monument.

Houghton le Spring, England

Penshaw Monument

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

Alignment.

Ripon, England

Swinton Druids Temple

Although it appears ancient and mysterious, the quirky folly was actually built 200 years ago by an eccentric estate owner.

An aerial view of Lloydminster City Hall with the border markers along the border

Lloydminster, Alberta

Lloydminster

This Canadian city is actually two-in-one, even if they only respect the timezone of one side.

The lighthouse looks out over a sea of prairies.

Cochin, Saskatchewan

Cochin Lighthouse

The unusual lighthouse looms over waves of prairies with no sea in sight.

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