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Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

This Oregon farm is dedicated to teaching people the professional art of tree climbing.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

The home-turned-museum of Barış Manço, the mustachioed Turkish Elvis for children.

This spire on an Austrian mountain is wrapped around a long spiral slide and has the world's tallest wooden observation deck.

The ruins of an 800-year-old monastery boasts the tallest round tower in Ireland.

Legend has it thieves once stashed their treasures in this crater in the Mexican desert.

A monument to the frontier doctor who came up with the idea of delineating highways with a painted line.

With the chapel itself being left to moulder, the cemetery of this abandoned church might be the freshest part.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

The wreckage of a deadly bomber plane crash can still be found near an Arizona peak.

This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

One man's lifetime collection of tiny objects of wisdom gathered from around the world, on display for public enjoyment.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.

The hotel room where Janis Joplin tragically died has now become a makeshift shrine to the singer.

This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.

If God were a skater, this would clearly be His park of choice.