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Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.

A million and a half tons of earth were used to create one of the world's largest land sculptures.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

Tucked away in a corner of a Maine general store there was a museum devoted to an equally beloved and reviled local soft drink.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

This museum holds not just a world class collection of firefighting artifacts and gear but even the region's first fire station itself.

Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.

She asked for a potato cellar and over the next 23 years he gave her a network of holy caves.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

The middle finger of modernity.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.