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Bristol, England

‘Bear With Me’

This beloved piece of street art mysteriously vanished, only to reappear in its original location after some much-needed TLC.

The Center of the Universe, Tulsa OK.

Tulsa, Oklahoma

The Center of the Universe

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

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Nekoma, North Dakota

The Pyramid of North Dakota

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

Overview of the unique condition of the cemetery, showing its restored state that forever traps it in a certain level of weathering due to its long abandonment

Whitesboro, New York

Abandoned Revolutionary War Cemetery

A burial ground restored by a determined Boy Scout, where fragments of America’s early history rest beneath weathered stones.

The Erotic Heritage Museum, Las Vegas.

Las Vegas, Nevada

Erotic Heritage Museum

Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.

The World's Tallest Concrete Gnome

Ames, Iowa

Elwood, the World's Tallest Concrete Gnome

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

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Wichita, Kansas

The Wichita Troll

A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

Captain Cook Monument

Kealakekua, Hawaii

Captain Cook Monument

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

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Xcalacoop, Mexico

Cenote Ik-Kil

A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.

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West Lafayette, Indiana

The Farm at Prophetstown

A working farm as life was in the 1920s.

The ridges and furrows formed on historically strip farmed land.

England

Medieval Strip Farming

The farmland on the old Isle of Axholme is one of only 4 places in the UK where the medieval practice of strip farming still persists.

The Porters' house, now an inn.

Peru, Indiana

Cole Porter's Birthplace

The humble Hoosier roots of a famed Broadway composer.

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Roann, Indiana

Stockdale Mill

This 150-year-old mill on Eel River still produces flour and offers tours of its historic grounds.

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Mentone, Indiana

Mentone Egg

A giant concrete egg marks this Indiana town as the "Egg Basket of the Midwest."

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Rochester, Indiana

First Death Marker on the Trail of Death

In 1838, 859 Potawatomi Indians were forcibly removed from their village to begin a grueling march to Kansas. This location marks the first death.

Close-up view of the Bert Leedy Round Barn

Rochester, Indiana

Round Barn Capital of the World

A turn-of-the-century agricultural architecture movement turned out to be a fad that caught on the strongest near Rochester, Indiana.

Westerbork Radio Telescope (WSRT) in operation

Zwiggelte, Netherlands

Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope

A radio telescope for listening to the stars, based in one of the cloudiest countries in the world.

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Buinen, Netherlands

LOFAR Superterp

The nerve center of a massive, state-of-the art radio telescope that sprawls across Western Europe.

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Borger, Netherlands

Hunebed D27

More than 5,000 years old, D27 is the largest dolmen in the Netherlands and was already standing long before Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids were built.

The Sailor's Stone

Hindhead, England

The Sailor's Stone

This curious gravestone tells the legend of an unknown mariner's grisly murder.

Barbara Snyder's gravestone.

Katy, Texas

The Witch’s Grave

A century-old local legend surrounds the grave of Barbara Snyder due to its eerie epitaph.

"STONEMASON S.P. ANDERSSON ... KILLED BY THIS STONE ON 22 JUNE 1880 ... FRIENDS RAISED THE STONE"

Malmö, Sweden

Sven P. Andersson’s Gravestone

The very rock that killed the stonemason marks his grave.

Old Sagiada

Greece

Old Sagiada

Abandoned and overgrown town with views of the Mediterranean Sea.

Bourke's Luck Potholes

Ehlanzeni, South Africa

Bourke's Luck Potholes

Raging waters have created a strange geological site that looks like something off of a progressive rock album cover.

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