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Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

600 stumps, branches, and trunks of different shapes and sizes.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

The abandoned remnants of a little sanctuary for world peace that fell into disrepair.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

A record-size collection of wild-haired troll dolls tells the story of the mythical creature's roots in Scandinavian folklore.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

A strip of neutral ground where the people of Tajikistan and Afghanistan come together to trade.

The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.

A colorful collection of scavenged glass bells decorates this Canadian ranch.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

Homemade outdoor church and sculpture garden decorated with glass shards.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.