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Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

A small section of Boise, Idaho maintains the unique culture and traditions of the Basque people.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

This 11th century tower is said to be the oldest building in Oxford.

Oxford University's stateliest library seems designed to make students truly feel the weight of knowledge.

The beloved fantasy novelist is buried near a church containing a whimsical etched glass window full of Narnia favorites.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

This abandoned nuclear cooling tower casts a shadow over a bucolic town.

An attack on a prominent Black attorney's house sparked a watershed moment in Nashville's civil rights movement.

The pan man stands as a testament to the functionality of American cast iron cookware.

The R&B singer's modest church guarantees a religious experience, regardless of your beliefs.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

An unknown Hall of Fame in Jackson, Tennessee.

The "Jade Museum" is full of thousands of intricately carved works of art made from various precious stones.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.