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120 mortarless pagodas built by one Korean hermit.

Over 80,000 carved wood blocks make up one of the world's oldest intact Buddhist canons.

The tree is thought to be the oldest oak in Texas and was once crowned state champion for its monumental size.

A short boardwalk through a swamp leads to the spot from which the Louisiana Purchase was surveyed.

Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.

Yup, that's where the name came from.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

The dream home of an iconoclastic renaissance man still stands as a monument to his domestically mundane vision.

The last location where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson played before their tragic deaths.

To get to or from this Canadian ghost town, you'll need to cross 11 single-lane bridges.

This ghost-town bar has bullet holes and plenty of stories lurking within its walls.

Three pristine alpine lakes named in memorial of an accident that resulted in three different plane crashes.

What was to be the world's most secure Cold War document vault ended up as just a few shallow caves.

The last remnant of a tree that helped prove to the world that sequoias are real—and they’re spectacular.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

Equipment used to mine silver and lead has been preserved in this almost-ghost town in northern Nye County.

The second seat of Nye County, still mostly a ghost town, has become a magnet for those looking to live "away from it all."

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

The site of an ancient Mississippian settlement that appears to have flourished during the 10th to 13th centuries.

The final resting place of Gary Gygax; co-creator of Dungeons and Dragons.

This former studio belonging to a pioneer in photography stands in a picturesque landscape with unique rock formations.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.