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A series of eerie metal stick figures are spread out over four square miles on the bed of a huge salt lake in the Australian Outback.

These expertly crafted, scientifically accurate glass sea creatures were once an international phenomenon.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

The grassy landscape is home to the world's last truly wild horses.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

300-year-old villagers houses and traditional churches preserve a nearly lost piece of Russian history.

3,000 family pets and military animals are buried in this London graveyard.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

A palatial horse museum outside Shanghai is home to the most pampered horses in the world.

A small Montana town commemorates the dog who waited at the train station every day for his owner to return.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

The real place where the One Ring to rule them all was forged.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

A scale model of Russia so big visitors are offered binoculars to rent so they can see the whole thing.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.