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A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

One thousand trees were planted in Norway to be used to print books a century from now.

At 929 pounds and 26 feet tall, this stainless steel fork can only be used by the likes of King Kong.

The island where one woman reigned as a "queen" over 30-odd Japanese soldiers who refused to believe that WWII had ended.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

One of the world’s most colorful cemeteries, where each pigment is symbolic.

The colony of South Australia was proclaimed on a hot December day under a distinctively arched gum tree.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

A true Valhalla for cactus and succulent lovers.

Housed in the university planetarium, the thousand-strong collection of tiny towelettes includes a used one from the hosts of Car Talk.