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Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

This whimsical home made entirely from clay is basically a giant piece of pottery.

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

Songwriter Leon Russell transformed this church into a recording studio used by many legendary musicians.

One of the best examples of Art Deco architecture in the United States.

At the tallest peak in Colorado, an electrifying mix of thin air, lightning, and rivalry.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.