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The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

Created by four famous men, the beautifully designed Buffalo State Asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center, but still boasts a ghost story or two.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

This otherworldly palace-mausoleum complex is the stuff eternal dreams are made of.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

This staircase full of Mayan hieroglyphics is perhaps the largest single text in the world.

This shrine to McDonalds' most iconic sandwich holds a 14-foot tall burger.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

The violinist who played on as the Titanic sank is buried in this quiet English cemetery.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

Once used to screen films for theater owners to rent, this historic building is now a start up hub.

After being destroyed by IRA sympathizers, the ruins of this stately Irish manor have sat vacant for decades.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Religious perseverance and cultural coexistence manifest in an architectural gem that multiple wars couldn't topple.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

The smallest country in Australia is a principled little thing with a friendly emperor.