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Michelle Cassidy

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Skull Rock really catches the light during golden hour.

Twentynine Palms, California

Skull Rock

An eerie natural formation that looks right back at you.

The Ghost Town of Nothing, Arizona

Nothing, Arizona

The Ghost Town of Nothing, Arizona

Nothing to see here.

The historic lanes at Koz's Mini Bowl.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Koz’s Mini Bowl

The last original miniature duckpin bowling lanes in America, located in a Milwaukee dive bar.

The front of the ruins.

San Jose, California

Ruins of the Bayside Cannery

This crumbling warehouse was once the third-largest cannery in the U.S. and the first in the world to can green asparagus.

This building is a re-creation of the Main Gate used during the Los Alamos Project.

Los Alamos, New Mexico

Main Gate Park

This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.

Ōnawe Peninsula

Duvauchelle, New Zealand

Ōnawe Peninsula

A peninsula on a peninsula that becomes an island at high tide.

Hargeysa Cultural Center's Tape Wall

Hargeisa, Somalia

Hargeysa Cultural Center's Tape Wall

An extensive audio-only collection of cultural heritage saved from a genocide.

This bread still comes in its nostalgic green and yellow packaging.

Kinomoto, Japan

Kinomoto Tsuruya Bakery

This bakery in Japan is one of the few places that still sells 'salad bread,' a short-lived staple in the post-World War II years.

Tōno is known for its kappa folklore.

Tōno City, Japan

Kappabuchi Pool

Visitors are encouraged to fish for water goblins at this haunted pool.

Learn about all aspects of the seltzer-making process.

Brooklyn, New York

Brooklyn Seltzer Museum

Try an original egg cream at this museum located inside one of the last surviving old-fashioned seltzer factories in America.

Parc de Bruxelles, or "Brussels Park".

Brussels, Belgium

Commemoration of Peter the Great's Vomit

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

This “bomb” is really a deep-fried, golf ball-sized globe of mashed potatoes with a minced meat center.

Barcelona, Spain

La Cova Fumada

Behind this unmarked facade lies the original bomba—a crunchy orb of fried mashed potatoes stuffed with minced meat.

The “three rocks” tell the legend of a demon.

Morioka, Japan

Demon’s Hand Prints in the Rocks

According to local folklore, a demon left his handprints on these boulders, which became the prefecture’s namesake.

Part of the process of making a felt hat.

Stockport, England

The Hat Works

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

Young donkeys in the field

Dampierre-sur-Boutonne, France

Asinerie du Baudet du Poitou

A public center dedicated to showcasing and conserving the enormous shaggy Poitou donkey.

Good Grief

Boundary County, Idaho

Good Grief

Population: three people, two dogs, and one old grouch.

The Lacrosse Players, by Elmer P. Petersen, was dedicated in 1981.

La Crosse, Wisconsin

'The Lacrosse Players'

This downtown statue pays tribute to the Native American game that gave the city of La Crosse its name.

The Indecent Little Man of St James Church

Brno, Czechia

The Indecent Little Man on the Church of St. James

A cheeky architectural easter egg.

The artwork is inspired both by classic horror and modern cinema.

Beaver Dam, Wisconsin

Bones in Jars

A young artist's storefront brings eldritch horrors to small-town America.

Some locals in Oslo were shocked when this sculpture debuted.

Oslo, Norway

'Myth (Sphinx)—Kate Moss'

This striking sculpture of a supermodel in a yoga pose challenges traditional public art.

Onalaska, Wisconsin, is the "Sunfish Capital of the World."

Onalaska, Wisconsin

Sunny the Sunfish

This giant fiberglass sunfish welcomes visitors to Onalaska, Wisconsin, the "Sunfish Capital of the World."

An army of MSG pandas

Kawasaki, Japan

Ajinomoto MSG Factory

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

Ms. Pearl

Cedar Creek, Texas

Ms. Pearl

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

Gate to Angels Rest.

Kanab, Utah

Angels Rest

Not your typical pet cemetery.

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