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Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.

Video games, body language, and postal history are all on display in this Swiss museum.

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

The smallest museum in Basel, Switzerland, is a two-foot-by-two-foot window in the door of a 600-year-old house.

An unassuming Swiss institution houses Europe's largest toy museum.

The strange and snarky traditions of the lumber industry's fraternal order began with five men waiting for a train here in Arkansas.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

Fine dining 20 feet below the surface in the Indian Ocean.

An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.

Bioluminescence in the reefs of the Maldives causes the sea to glow like a starry night sky.

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

This subterranean studio is filled with fascinating kinetic art.

This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

The writing studio of an American adventure author, built in the style of a medieval castle.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in suburban Ohio.

The striking jade death mask of an ancient Maya king is displayed in a replica tomb in Mexico City.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.