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Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

The oldest alley in San Francisco is paved with a reminder of the city's original shoreline.

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

A mini-Stonehenge in the corner of the North Carolina state capitol grounds.

A giant concrete churn carries the legacy of American resilience, unity, and greed.

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

The illuminating collection of L.A. street lights is run by the city and only opens one day per month.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

This quaint museum in a long-running workshop is dedicated to a fixture in New Orleans lighting.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.