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A shipwreck named Desire at the shore of Batumi.

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

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

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

This ancient temple is set up to take you on a pilgrimage of self.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

The eclectic seaside sanctuary caters to a rather fowl crowd.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

This tiny Vietnamese village is known for eating snakes and serving their still-beating hearts in shots of vodka.

Venture into the hideout of one of Hong Kong's legendary pirates.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.

Could it have picked a better place to land?

Priceless space junk on display in front of a local Dairy Queen.

The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.