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Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

Home of Dutchy, an exhumed Confederate statue that was once torn down by an angry mob for looking stupid.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

Vienna’s most overlooked celebrity is a Disney star.

A small memorial dedicated to a man purportedly killed when a meteor the size of an SUV crashed into him.

This uninhabited volcanic island is the most remote in the world.

Napoleon’s home in exile, decorated with poisonous wallpaper.

Once a bustling fishing village and trading post, today these Cape Verde ruins provide a home only for seabirds and turtles.

The old ceramics factory on Boa Vista shows the power drifting sand has to destroy buildings.

This ship carrying cargo and four church bells for the Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida ran aground in 1968.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

A ghost town that was wiped out by a flood in 1940.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

A nearly century-old amusement park is quietly decaying in a riverside forest in South Carolina.

Mystery surrounds a famous marshal of Napoleon's army.

An ornate abandoned schoolhouse hidden in the woods near a decaying mill town.

Visit the secret grave of a legendary privateer who faked his own death.