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Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

This artsy public restroom is shaped like a giant john.

A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.

The century-old plant starred as the villainous clown's lair in the miniseries based on Stephen King's "It."

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

The abandoned mine where American troops discovered a treasure trove of art and artifacts hidden by the Nazis.

A small Montana town commemorates the dog who waited at the train station every day for his owner to return.

The final resting place of the first American-born professional magician.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

The oldest Buddhist monastery in Mongolia has survived centuries of invasions, political shifts, and religious purges.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

The Southern California pop sounds of surf and sand were born right here.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

The rose garden in Regent's Park where Pongo and Perdita met for the first time in Disney's "101 Dalmatians."

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.