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An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

A stately palace has been converted into the world's largest cannabis museum.

Together they left this world, and together they shall remain for all eternity.

This renaissance château was home to an infamous witch hunter who sent a hundred suspected witches to their deaths.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

Even with only two residents and one building, this tiny Illinois town is famous for its burgers.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

Kitschy horror displays now fill the house where some very real serial killing took place.

The Vatican's secret porn-festooned bathroom was painted in erotic murals by one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.

Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.

Striking ruins of a mansion that stood center stage in one of modern Brazil's most puzzling crimes.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

The caldera of this mini-volcano has been turned into a naturally heated mud bath.

Built as a home for the Union Porcelain magnate in 1867, now the Greenpoint Reformed Church and home to a ceramic mystery.