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Napoleon, Ohio

World’s Largest Tomato Soup Can

The famous red-and-white Campbell's Soup label beckons hungry passersby in Ohio.

Monumental Stone Sphere

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Monumental Stone Sphere

A perfectly crafted Pre-Columbian artifact dating back to 600 CE.

Ocean View Fishing Pier

Norfolk, Virginia

Ocean View Pier

The longest pier in North America stretches over the Chesapeake Bay.

Audrey Hepburn Gloves

Point Leamington, Newfoundland and Labrador

The Canadian Glove Museum

A quirky museum showcasing gloves from movie stars to moonwalkers, plus a behind-the-scenes factory tour.

The Gecko Gallery NYC

Brooklyn, New York

The Gecko Gallery NYC

A hidden Brooklyn basement gallery where two biologists nurture one of the Northeast’s rarest and most vibrant reptile collections.

Keep Mingo Alive Another 25 Years!

Colby, Kansas

Mingo GC30

This hidden treasure is the world’s oldest active geocache.

Testing the waters

Iż-Żebbuġ, Malta

Wied il-Għasri

Spectacular secluded inlet with clear waters flanked by limestone cliffs.

Guajara Observatory

Tenerife, Spain

Guajara Observatory

The ruins of the first mountaintop observatory are just a hike away.

The Yoda Cave

Iceland

The Yoda Cave

This cave resembles the Star Wars Jedi master.

Between the two locomotives.

Montech, France

Montech Water Slope

This feat of diesel-powered engineering enabled boats to bypass a series of five locks.

Luchtwachttoren 5K3

Strijensas, Netherlands

Luchtwachttoren 5K3

A Cold War watchtower atop a WWII-era bunker on a historic Dutch dike.

World’s Largest Watermelon Sculpture

Muscatine, Iowa

World’s Largest Watermelon Sculpture

A colossal watermelon slice celebrating Muscatine’s sweet agricultural heritage.

Wallender Born 'Brubbel'

Wallenborn, Germany

Wallender Born 'Brubbel'

A rare cold-water geyser that bubbles to life every half hour.

Cleveland Curiosities

Lakewood, Ohio

Cleveland Curiosities

An oddities shop with incredible permanent displays on top of its collection of purchasable curiosities.

Boardwalk Path.

Fire Island, New York

Sunken Forest

A rare forest habitat nestled behind two sand dunes.

It's reel-y big.

Lacombe, Alberta

World’s Largest Fishing Lure

The biggest bit of tackle you’ll ever see is in this Alberta town.

museum interior

Catonsville, Maryland

Benjamin Banneker Museum

This museum honors an African-American renaissance man of the early 18th century.

The Seal Woman (Kópakonan)

Kalsoy, Faroe Islands

The Seal Woman (Kópakonan)

This statue commemorates the tale of the fisherman who captured a Kópakonan by stealing her skin while she was transformed as a woman.

Charleston Light

Sullivan's Island, South Carolina

Charleston Light

This triangular lighthouse is one of the most modern in the U.S.

The front of the two-story, one-bedroom house measures 47 inches across.

Millport, Scotland

The Wedge

The narrowest house in the U.K.

Santa Maria La Scala village stairs and buildings.

Acireale, Italy

Santa Maria La Scala

A hidden fishing village on Sicily's Ionian coast, known for the legend of a shepherd, a nymph, and a jealous Cyclops.

Woolly Mammoth Antiques and Oddities

Chicago, Illinois

Woolly Mammoth Antiques and Oddities

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

1810s English Rotunda, Thorne Miniature Rooms

Chicago, Illinois

Thorne Miniature Rooms

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

Lower Lower Wacker Drive.

Chicago, Illinois

Lower Lower Wacker Drive

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

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