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By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.

According to the locals, the sands of this secluded Norway beach are infused with gemstone particles.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

According to legend, this boat-shaped henge is built over the grave of a mythic king.

This monster fiberglass crustacean stands watch over the self-proclaimed "lobster capital of the world."

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

This ancient burial mound is accessed by an impressive Greek-built archway.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

This giant Massachusetts sycamore is said to hold the dubious distinction of being the "widest tree East of the Mississippi!"

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

Take a giant yellow bird cage to the top of Elba's highest mountain.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.