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The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.