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The largest collection of Frazetta originals in the world.

The oldest active mini golf course in the U.S. has an elegant Art Deco style filled with lush tropical plants.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

Now home to a drinking establishment, this building has a macabre history.

An ornate "graveyard" for some of the country's forlorn building relics.

An artistic interpretation of the history of a Scottish park, combining poetry with anthropomorphic animals.

One of Edinburgh's oldest pubs hides a 19th-century skittles alley in the back.

This extraordinary Viking artifact has traveled throughout the city.

In memory of the assassinated, now-canonized Salvadoran archbishop who is the namesake of nearby Romero Place.

The first Chinese student to graduate from a European university.

Zurich's evolution museum hosts a unique collection of skeletons among its natural history treasures.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

Now the final resting place of prominent artists and musicians, it was originally founded to separate the rich from the poor in death.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

Whether you're up or down, the Elevator Museum is worth a stop.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.