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This former coal mine has been turned into a sprawling modern art complex.

Tucked away inside a historic Savannah hotel is a hundred-year history presented in ladies' lids.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

The remains of a Rockefeller's lush Italianate estate hidden in the underbrush on the coast of Lake Michigan.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

The remains of this ornate chapel now act as a portal to a cramped French cemetery.

This ancient abandoned church in a remote part of Turkey is in danger of falling over.

A flamboyant five-story building in Bulgaria resembles a crawling snail.

The knock-off oil painting capital of the world.

Yo, Adrian!

This restored 17th century "conduit house," often mistaken for a watchtower, actually supplied water to nearby Bolsover Castle.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

The moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.

A Barbados crypt where it's said that the coffins refuse to stay put.

The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.

This trio of bronze giants celebrate the influential trip to Britain that led to Botswana's independence.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

This niche museum devoted to ancient religious artifacts is shaped like the very thing it displays.

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.