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Bay of Nouadhibou Ship Graveyard
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Nouadhibou, Mauritania

Bay of Nouadhibou Ship Graveyard

The world's largest ship graveyard is the product of decades of corruption.

Families can get up close and personal with the endangered animals.

Stoke-on-Trent, England

Trentham Monkey Forest

An open air haven for tropical monkeys in the damp moors of the English country.

Tourists can hang out with the crocodiles.

Paga, Ghana

Sacred Crocodile Ponds of Paga

The souls of the dead have made these Ghanese crocodiles shockingly docile.

Exterior of the Crocodile House

Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Crocodile House

Living inside a fearsome reptile in the Ivory Coast.

The Mather home marks an historic site as well as a tangled tale of local intrigue

Boston, Massachusetts

Mather Home

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

Original bridge across the southern end of Lake Champlain, demolished in 2009

Addison, Vermont

Crown Point Bridge

Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".

Close-up of the face of the Feejee Mermaid

Grafton, Vermont

The Nature Museum Feejee Mermaid

Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.

Historical sign denoting the Frankenstein Trestle

Hart's Location, New Hampshire

Frankenstein Cliff

Rock face that shares a name with Mary Shelley's famous doctor.

Spot where they erected the cover bridge for the Maitlands's death scene.

Corinth, Vermont

East Corinth

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

Mounted spider webs
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Williamstown, Vermont

Knight's Spider Web Farm

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

Gnome and Toadstool

Oakland, California

Gnomes of Lake Merritt

This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.

'The Thinker', often seen as a separate sculpture

Palo Alto, California

Gates of Hell Sculpture

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

Front of the tomb

Palo Alto, California

Stanford Mausoleum

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

(Flickr/Prehensile Eye)
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New York, New York

Carsten Höller Slide

Three-story slide through the New Museum.

Pelicans of St James's Park

London, England

Pelicans of St James's Park

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

Lakenenland. (Creative Commons)

Marquette, Michigan

Lakenenland

Large one-man sculpture park in Michigan.

Mount Osore

Mutsu, Japan

Mount Osore

This mountain's identity is stuck somewhere between a nightmare and a scenic tourist attraction.

The Little A'Le'Inn

Alamo, Nevada

Little A'Le'Inn

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Marble Cathedral

Puerto Río Tranquilo, Chile

Marble Caves of Chile Chico

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

Abandoned Neverland Ranch

Santa Ynez, California

Neverland Ranch

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

Nara Dreamland
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Nara, Japan

Nara Dreamland

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

Clifton's Gates of Hell

Clifton, New Jersey

Clifton's Gates of Hell

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

A tiger in Jungle Habitat.

West Milford, New Jersey

Jungle Habitat

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

Much of the site is marred by graffiti. (Image via Toledo Talk)
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Detroit, Michigan

Detroit Children's Zoo

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

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