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A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

Free candle-lit art gallery, accompanied by a live piano score.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

A self-built mosaic house and sculpture park.

What might look like a cliffside sacrificial altar at first glance is actually a stone compass pointing to cities and lighthouses all around the world.

The Gaudí-inspired building that was the start of Terrassenc modernism.

A gravity-defying "devil's bridge" that has a surprising architectural feature for its stability.

Turntable anonymously received orphans, alms, and groceries.

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

The world's largest collection of intentionally useless inventions.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

Silent memorial, using bone conduction to take people back to the Dresden Bombing of 1945.

The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

This former quarry is now a picturesque gorge that hides a sunken lake.

Every part of this unusual home is built into the sandstone rock.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.