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This sprawling taxidermy collection celebrates the art and history of sport hunting.

Bursting forth from a historic German neighborhood, these day-glo palaces are now a bright fixture in the town.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.

These powerful, if squat, Canadian waterfalls flow in different directions depending on the time of day.

This collection of lurid religious statues tell the tales of a saint who stood down the devil.

This historic Canadian jail was once the longest operating prison in the country and is now open for people to incarcerate themselves.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

This highest peak in Idaho can only be reached by traversing a formation known as "Chicken-Out Ridge."

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

A preserved factory in the "Home of the Carrousel" is now a museum dedicated to the classic wooden ride.

This tiny island featuring 9th-century Viking ruins is only accessible at low tide.

Formerly frequented by Hollywood stars and now open for tours.

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

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.

Recycling meets art in this colorful barricade.

No one seems to know who suffered the disappointment at this particular place.

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

This historic folk museum celebrates the attention to detail that makes America great.

The highest point in Montana is as rugged and singular as the state itself.