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Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.

A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

The statue of the famous elephant who was the original source of the word "jumbo".

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

On La Gomera, "Silbadors" communicate in a 4,000-word language of whistles.

There might not be much left of these Irish ruins, but their linguistic legacy is still going strong.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

Hundreds of thousands of ancient documents offer a unique glimpse into Jewish life in Cairo.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

The writer took refuge in this home in Southern France for the last 17 years of his life.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

A museum dedicated to the German scientist who revealed the significance of the mysterious Peruvian Nazca Lines.