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Once the largest unsupported dome in the world, beating out the Pantheon and St Peters in Rome.

Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

As its grandiose name implies, this wooden dome is unsurpassed in size.

17th century mosque for Shah Abbas' harem.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.

This 17th-century mausoleum is topped with an acoustic marvel.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

A bright and wacky exhibit answers every question you may have had about human excrement, flatulence, and more.

The decaying remains of a 1960s mechanical wonderland that never officially closed.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

One of the largest collections of wildlife art in the United States, built into the side of a cliff in rural Wyoming.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

For over 100 years, this Indiana town has had a tree growing out the top of the local courthouse.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.