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The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.

This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.

House used in the 1971 horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death."

This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

This 24-acre park offers a place for meditation in the midst of Sedona's iconic red rocks.

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

The birthplace of the Ford Model T is now a museum full of antique cars.

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

The gravestones in this lost burial ground were bulldozed and replaced with houses and a dog park.

The honor of highest point in Michigan was almost given to the wrong peak before this mountain won out by 11 inches.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.

This titanic Catholic church in Chicago is also a refuge of the fictional cult-favorite wizard detective Harry Dresden.

Spectacular mineral formations fill these caves, which have been used for everything from smoking meat to stashing illicit liquor.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

The cobbled together compound of a deceased artist which now serves as a filming location.

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

The oldest continually used church in Minneapolis also sells great meat pies.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

A devilishly named gorge that was a sign of salvation for many pioneers.

A museum dedicated to "science, history and the arts" little changed since 1915.