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The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

The 40-year-old machine serves soda quicker than you can catch it for a mere 75 cents a pop.

The roadway bend where highway painters practice their craft looks like expressionist art.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

What looks like missing grout is actually an old pub's peephole.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

The first dish to bounce radio signals off the Moon, it was the forerunner to the U.S. Space Program.

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

This grisly headstone doesn’t seem to be resting in peace.

An eerie collection of the surviving structures from a past celebration of the future.

A bike train runs along a disused railway line through the tranquil French countryside.

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

An intriguing antique iron Ferris wheel that most locals are sure was designed by Gustave Eiffel.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

The "Rocky Horror Picture Show" character has a hidden camera that broadcasts people doing the "Time Warp."

A clone of a cloned tree that was so important it allegedly had its own guards.

A remote island holds what claims to be Scotland's smallest cinema.

With the Wild Bunch hunted almost to extinction and the law closing in on him, Butch Cassidy fled to this remote cabin in Argentina.