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Ryugyong Hotel

Pyongyang, North Korea

Ryugyong Hotel

North Korea's massive "hotel of doom."

Kreischer Mansion

Staten Island, New York

Kreischer Mansion

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

Holmdel Horn Antenna

Holmdel, New Jersey

Holmdel Horn Antenna

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

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Staten Island, New York

Fresh Kills Landfill

One-time largest man-made structure in the world will be a park in 30 years.

Jellyfish Lake

Koror, Palau

Jellyfish Lake

An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians.

Moon over the Chambal River.

Jajepura, India

Chambal River

An ancient curse kept humans from living on the water, and now it's brimming with rare wildlife and is one of the most pristine rivers in India.

Rosenberg Statue

Chicago, Illinois

Rosenberg Statue

A goddess-topped water fountain in Chicago was created thanks to the dreams of a thirsty newsboy.

A detail of the chapel walls.

Chicago, Illinois

Hidden Egyptian Temple in Field Museum Break Room

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

The Livonian Wolves at the Leaping Wall
Permanently Closed

Chicago, Illinois

Livonian Wolves at the Leaping Wall

In one Chicago park, a trio of werewolves are waiting to devour their fallen brethren.

Behold!

New York, New York

New York Federal Gold Vault

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

Entering the vault!

New York, New York

Trinity Place Bank Vault Bar

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Barthman's Sidewalk Clock

New York, New York

Barthman's Sidewalk Clock

A clock set into the concrete outside a Manhattan jeweler has been telling time underfoot for over a century.

The Double Check Businessman

New York, New York

The Double Check Businessman

This anonymous businessman sculpted in bronze became an enduring memorial after 9/11, and had been mistaken by rescue workers for a survivor in the rubble.

Famine sculptures at night in black and white

Dublin, Ireland

The Famine Memorial in Dublin

The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.

Allegorical figures for the Demidoff monument, Gipsoteca Bartolini.

Florence, Italy

Gipsoteca Bartolini

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

The Illustrated London News reports the blaze.

Dublin, Ireland

Dublin Whiskey Fire

A devastating booze inferno poured through the streets, claiming several victims who drank it.

Full view of the Proclamation sculpture

Dublin, Ireland

The Proclamation Sculpture

A particularly disconcerting tribute to Irish martyrs.

Sam the Prisoner.

Folsom, California

Folsom Prison Museum

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

The haunted-house-like entrance.

London, England

The Clink Prison Museum

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

Cell Doors

Dublin, Ireland

Kilmainham Gaol

One of Ireland's most infamous prisons for rebels including men, women and children.

A view of the tower.

Groton, Massachusetts

Bancroft Castle

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

View into the Bug Pit

Bukhara, Uzbekistan

"The Bug Pit" at Zindon Prison

Where Stoddart and Connolly suffered in the infamous Bug Pit.

The man-eaters of Tsavo at the Field Museum, Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

Tsavo Man Eaters

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

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Close up of some of the "engraving"

Westford, Massachusetts

Westford Knight

Supposed Massachusetts Grave of a pre-Columbus Knight Templar.

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