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One man's collection of found art, sculpture, and ephemera adorns his two side-by-side homes.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

A bronze monument to Cleveland's favorite, fastest son.

Remnants of a forgotten ballpark where legend and infamy intersect.

The tragic reality of a village riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

The final resting place of the most famous sharpshooter.

A miniature world of concrete and stone in Springfield, Ohio.

This unincorporated community in western Ohio got its peculiar name from John "Daddy" Baker.

This bridge uses an inverted bowstring truss and is believed to be the only of its kind in the United States.

The largest ancient burial mound in Ohio.

Giant trolls run this farm!

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

This massive, ancient stone was disassembled and then put back together again.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

A collection of artworks exclusively created by the mentally ill that was almost burned by Nazi culture police.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

A 16th-century Andalusian palace.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.

This "life-size" depiction of Mickey Mouse as a half-lobster is both whimsical and a bit creepy, standing guard over the Boston waterfront.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.