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An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

This wondrous waterfall rushing down a green-covered mountain wasn't discovered until 2010.

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.