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The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

Unique house covered in a nightmarish mural of demons, ghosts and monsters.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

This vintage gem is one of the oldest surviving purpose-built movie palaces in Scotland.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

Believed to be the capital of the the ancient kingdom of Dál Riata.

This ruins of an abandoned Victorian-era mental health facility.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Underground tunnels once home to crime are now back open to the public.

This small collection in the back of a shop is the only oddities museum in Saskatoon.

This old-school café is famous for serving coffee, chilaquiles, and the Cuban Revolution.

At this bright and vibrant museum in Mexico City, you can make your own custom scent.

This foreboding building was the headquarters of the terrifying Spanish Inquisition in Mexico.

Mexico’s first synagogue set up by and for the Ashkenazi Jewish community.

Its most enigmatic sculpture is a giantess with a ghostly face on her knee.

The remains of an Aztec school and various intriguing artifacts lie below a modern cultural center.

A 1975 bylaw prohibits the construction of any building that would block the view of this Gothic Revival church.

The Underground railway station and its Cubist/Art Deco statue are so evocative of 1920s/30s London that one almost expects to see Poirot on the stairs.