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Homage to the local produce now serves as a car dealer.

Giant wood sculpture in Kew first constructed in 1979.

Australian holiday town hosts world's largest bowling ball.

Roadside display for a popular fruit and vegetable stand.

One of the first big sculptures anywhere in Australia.

Once a farming community founded by the Italian survivors of an immigration scam, this colony is now a free camp and roadside attraction.

There's nothing shrimpy about the world's largest artificial prawn.

The most easterly point on mainland Australia offers dramatic ocean views.

The Australian terminal of the Pacific Cable that linked the continent to North America.

The largest wax museum in the southern hemisphere features a grizzly chamber of horrors.

Giant fruit signaling the entrance to a tropical paradise.

305 homemade stone stairs wind their way up the Hamilton escarpment.

The first outlet of Canada's biggest fast-food franchise has been slinging doughnuts since 1964.

The Painted Ladies of Ontario aren’t your average beach homes.

Perhaps the most obscure, simplistic Banksy installation found in Bristol or in the entire world.

Banksy's image of a naked man dangling from the window of a sex health clinic.

These strikingly barren, rolling red hills were caused by bad farming practices.

This little-known telescope was the world’s second largest when it was built in 1935.

The secluded beach getaway from Wes Anderson's dreamy summer romance.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

Defaced since the early 80s, this bridge has become local icon to the metalheads and residents of the city.

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

For decades, the parade of apostles that left the Expiatory Temple of Guadalajara remained hidden inside one of the towers.

This structure was moved nearly 40 feet while people continued working inside it.