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Another statue of Japan's most famous dog stands in his hometown.

An isolated "phantom bridge" doomed to crumble into ruin.

A statue of the forgotten American who helped transform Hokkaido and Japan.

Japan’s oldest clock tower has been called one of the country’s most disappointing attractions.

Fascinating early attempt at a Jewish autonomous settlement.

One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.

This hidden pre-Columbian rock art depicts a whale hunt.

A Swiss man built this airstrip for aliens because a UFO captain telepathically told him to.

South America's oldest surviving locomotive.

For millennia, explorers were obsessed with discovering the source of the Nile—is this small mountain stream really the answer?

A monument marks the spot where the first Catholic missionaries arrived in Uganda.

After suggesting criminals be burned to death on this rock, a king's advisor suffered his own punishment.

This small roadside eatery exists in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, as the equator runs right through it.

These five houses were built for the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair.

A concrete block embedded with thousands of pulled teeth was created by a local dentist to memorialize his dog.

During World War II, the Nazis repurposed this beer cellar to store stolen artwork.

Nestled amid the trees lies an abandoned funicular railway that dates back to the 1920s.

After mysteriously refusing to surrender at the end of World War II this sunken submarine was only salvaged in a search for Nazi gold.

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

A little known pile of scraps and plaques mark the grave of a downed RAF bomber.

The world's first purpose-built motor racetrack was destroyed by the outbreak of two world wars.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

During World War II the Thorp building was guarded by the OSS, FBI, and US Navy because of the top-secret bombsight being produced there.

A chapel built by Italian POWs during World War II tells a forgotten tale of the war on the home front.