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This historic Idaho island is home to a strange timeshare museum, a homemade mini-golf course, and an outhouse named Aunt Fanny.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

Don't be a grizzly man. Get personal with Alaska's wild bears from the safety of this conservationist camp.

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

A statue beloved by—and named by—the local townsfolk it represents.

This two-room factory has been cranking out the musical signifier of zaniness for a century.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

Two distorted Romanesque columns hold aloft a mine cart in honor of laborers who died during WWII.

An Indian forest is being single-handedly planted after its creator was inspired by a slither of dead snakes.

The last of the 19th-century booze-free bars has been slinging teetotal tonics for over a century.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

This luxury shopping lane has been protected by its own tiny police force for over a century.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

The abandoned remains of this Victorian brewery hide crumbling bowling alleys and rusting industrial gear.