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An infamous former prison is now a biodiverse national park.

Thousands of fossilized footprints speckle this Bolivian national park.

Hub for hallucinogenic Amazon religion.

Home to the first child born to English colonists in North America, this colony mysteriously disappeared while waiting for supplies.

Probably the only remaining trace of a leprosy house in Wisconsin, reflecting a time when leprosy was uncurable and sufferers were isolated.

The engine block of a British Royal Mail Ship marks the spot of her demise, caused by the Great Gale of 1856.

On this spot Lord Kelvin allegedly discovered absolute zero.

This bullfrog grew to an alleged weight of 42 pounds on a diet of whiskey, baked beans, and June bugs.

Hidden in Portland’s West Hills, a 170-year-old marker literally stakes out the Pacific Northwest.

The magic's in the hole!

Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

This school building was an extravagant show of wealth for a boomtown that mostly faded in the following decade.

This sanctuary became synonymous with fear and terror in the ancient world.

The mysterious empty cupola behind the monumental arch points to an ancient prophecy of Delhi.

15 monolithic temples emulate an eroding sand castle.

Massive fortress bastions in the desert of Cholistan.

In a past life this steamboat hauled rubber and passengers up and down the Amazon.

An 11th-century Viking gravestone in a Victorian parish church graveyard.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

This unassuming stone commemorates a condiment factory gone up in smoke.

This sinkhole was created by a tragic industrial accident and continues to ravage the surrounding landscape.

Only a shrine remains at the site of the catastrophic nightclub inferno that killed 100 Great White fans.