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

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

Central Europe's largest collection of mini-bottles is on display at this museum devoted to a bitter Hungarian liquor.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

Funded entirely by volunteers and donors this military memorial features a tank with a comedy line on its barrel.

Nailing a coin to this holy stump is just another way to ask the gods for relief from dental pain.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

The second largest in the world, this massive underground void has its own subway.

This former Welsh metal factory is now a lovely abandoned relic but was once one of the industry's world leaders.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

This Spanish shoe museum has history, has design, and has a pair of Rafael Nadal's tennies!

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

An abandoned beach resort in Normandy reclaimed by artists.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

This sprawling Belgian fort was once thought of as impenetrable but now it is simply an abandoned relic.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

A Norwegian church that was built before Wisconsin was even a state has been entirely moved to a nicer spot.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.