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A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

A perfect circle of 24 mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric times.

These structures were inspired by both Native American shelters as well as, strangely, an ice cream shop.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

This Roman quarry once held secret masses and smuggler's contraband and is now home to rare species of bats.

Despite its location in the English countryside, this chapel is the property of Ontario, Canada.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

A pair of 19th-century granite markers symbolically record where the state boundaries of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania intersect.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

Peru's (not so) mysterious carved stones.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

What’s a sure fire way to end up in jail in New York in the 1920s? Peddling bad moonshine.

The oldest still-existing mosque in the United States sits in a remote prairie in North Dakota.

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

A small alleyway with an unusual moniker.

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