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Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

This university transit system is a 1970's vision of the future.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.

This secluded Iceland farm holds the collected works of one rural sculptor's creations.

A modern artist's primitive stone faces and unique rock instrument join Iceland's terrain with its history.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

A sculpture serving as an homage to Pope John Paul II.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

An art instillation for the sake of "raising vibrations."