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The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.

An eight-foot-long pine cone made out of 140 recycled steel shovels is an homage to Maine's state flower.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

Accessible only by boat, this centuries-old island fort never saw troops or combat.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

Not a single witness can attest to the creation of the world's largest geoglyph.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

This bottle-shaped monument pays tribute to the Appalachian drink that changed the pace of human life.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

Few of the many visitors to this resort town know of its hidden Maya ruins.

This now-abandoned shopping center in Playa del Carmen was built to resemble a medieval European castle.

This slumbering beast honors the Bavarian soldiers who died in Greece during a 19th-century typhoid outbreak.

Step inside an ancient beehive tomb built for a mysterious cult hero.

This ancient hydrological marvel is now the base of a modern outdoor cinema.

A sharp sculpture made of thousands of pieces of jagged glass.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

3/4-scale model of the White House in Atlanta, Georgia.

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

A little-known mural reveals the hydrological reason for Atlanta's founding in this location.

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

Unruly residents were housed in this one-person cell until the Black Maria arrived.