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A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

Austria's very first and only nuclear power station was completed but never used.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

This spaceship sculpture in the middle of the Slovakian capital looks like it just crash-landed.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

Elaborate hand-carved wooden clocks two brothers made in their spare time are on display at this handsome little museum.

The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.

A massive Celtic cross secretly growing in an Irish forest.

Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.

Remnants of a quarry company town still stand on the banks of the Wapsipinicon River.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

This man-made mound monument was built out of soil from all across the Polish empire.

The home of the morbid art of corpse plastination is open for visitors to view the fascinating, but stomach-churning process.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

Built to bless whalers before their voyages, this Massachusetts church now features a ship-shaped pulpit.

A famous songsmith's custom piano, dubbed "High Society," is hidden just out of sight in one of New York's finest hotels.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

A strangely angled West Village home is the only monument to an explosion that took the lives of three American revolutionaries.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.