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Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

When the big city meets the edge of the frontier, log skyscrapers are born.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

This abandoned bootleg attraction was built to cash in on the popularity of classic TV show, F Troop.

The mysterious remains of a martyred teenage saint are venerated inside a small country chapel.

One man and his wife have turned a barren Korean island into a fantastical botanical wonderland.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

The country's oldest continually-operated mini golf course lies hidden in plain sight, eclipsed by one of D.C.'s most popular tourist attractions.

Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!

This tri-part waterfall is a little bit of fairytale beauty in the heart of Luxembourg's Little Switzerland.

America's largest viking stands in a Minnesota city that believes it was visited by the ancient nords.

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

Helen Keller once broke ground on this historic center for the study of technologies to benefit the hearing impaired.

An ornate plague column – built to celebrate life – claimed the lives of numerous artisans during its construction.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.