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What started as a tailor shop to help swimmers live their mermaid dreams has grown into a full-scale aquarium, complete with live mermaid shows.

This centuries-old hotel hides a network of secret cellars and passages once used by smugglers.

Explore the legends surrounding these mythical sea creatures inside this museum.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

Travelers who fall victim to this mermaid's charms are destined to stay in Užupis forever.

The Polish capital has had a deep connection to its guardian mermaid for almost a millennium now.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

A wooden statue of a mermaid commemorates one fisherman's generosity.

At the right time of day, sunlight floods through the roof of this cave and illuminates the small pavilion hidden within.

This "thrice-cursed" island is allegedly home to Captain Kidd's lost treasure.

Woven tree art gives this towering Australian woodland a touch of mystical whimsy.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

This extensive nuclear fallout shelter built from 42 school buses could house 500 people in its tunnels.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

A Buddhist monastery tucked away in the mountains of Colorado.

The collection of a paranormal investigator who traveled the country collecting haunted items and stories.

The remains of an early 1900s dude ranch that operated until the 1970s.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.