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This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

This giant urban staircase was built to keep the city's brave fighting men from getting waylaid in the red light district.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

One Costa Rican island is so beset by illegal shark poachers that the local rangers have built an entire bridge with their confiscated gear .

A giant gun barrel in Barbados that once hoped to shoot outer space with science.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

This tiny square mile of Canadian sand was once considered the world's smallest desert.

Abortion, prohibition, religion, war, and fear all play a part in the history of this idiosyncratic Pacifica castle.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

The ruins of this Brazilian island prison still bear the scars of the bloody rebellion that closed it down.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

Home of Dutchy, an exhumed Confederate statue that was once torn down by an angry mob for looking stupid.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

The famous facade of Grand Central Terminal hides a regulation tennis court—and it's not the first one.