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This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.

Starting with nothing more than discarded conch shells, one man has built an island/bar that would make Jimmy Buffet jealous.

Smoked mummies housed in mountainside caves.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

Looking like nothing more than a cartoon deserted island, this tiny sandbar is home only to a single umbrella.

This tiny tropical village was sick of anonymity so the locals made this sign, which actually changed the name of the town.

Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

The world's largest collection of artifacts from our history of industrial gas use is hard to simply pass.

This subterranean necropolis holds three floors of antler-dug grave caves.

This small stone chapel is a hidden gem just outside the University of New Hampshire campus.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

An ancient Roman theatre restored to its former glory in the Spanish city of Cartegena.

A reportedly haunted 14th-century church is curiously facing the “wrong direction.”

This smily stone feline is meant to represent a mythical lion that almost destroyed the island of Kea.

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

This mysterious abandoned fort looks like something pulled right from Arabian legend.

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.

What was to be the world's most secure Cold War document vault ended up as just a few shallow caves.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

This tiny island protects a number of rare bird species by only allowing visitors to set foot on the beach.

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.

This historical Netherlands fortress still bears the marks of its single siege.