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Hawkstone Park

Weston, England

Hawkstone Park

Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

The south face of Ben Nevis

Polldubh, Scotland

Ben Nevis

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

The Kelpies.

Grangemouth, Scotland

The Kelpies

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

Clock of the Long Now: Prototype 1

London, England

Clock of the Long Now: Prototype 1

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Overtoun Bridge.

Milton, Scotland

Overtoun Bridge

This Scottish bridge seems to compel dogs to leap to their death.

Beachy Head

East Sussex, England

Beachy Head

England's most notorious suicide spot.

Bounce Below

Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales

Llechwedd Caverns Trampoline Park

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

Color lantern slides.

Melbourne, Australia

The Limelight Department

A cramped wooden attic that once housed one of the world's first movie studios.

The Jade Buddha for Universal Peace

Myers Flat, Australia

The Jade Buddha for Universal Peace

Largest Buddha carved from gemstone-quality jade in the world, on a world tour through 2011.

The whale carving at Balls Head, Waverton.

Sydney, Australia

Aboriginal Carving of a Whale

An ancient engraving by the Cammeraygal people was uncovered in the transformation of a North Sydney industrial site.

Timeball Tower

Williamstown, Australia

Timeball Tower

An obsolete form of timekeeping still marks the hour in this adapted 19th century lighthouse.

One of many cases of butterflies at the Daintree Entomological Museum.

Diwan, Australia

Daintree Entomological Museum

Australia's largest collection of rare and bizarre insects.

Big Avocado. (Wikimedia Commons)

Duranbah, Australia

Big Avocado

Giant fruit signaling the entrance to a tropical paradise.

Lambing Flat Chinese Tribute Garden. (Hungry Hen)

Young, Australia

Lambing Flat Chinese Tribute Garden

Tribute to the Chinese people of Young and Australia.

Coast Cemetery

La Perouse, Australia

Coast Cemetery

Hidden among popular Sydney golf courses is a little remembered graveyard populated by smallpox victims.

Big Kookaburra

Kurri Kurri, Australia

Big Kookaburra

This 4.5-meter-tall statue of a native Australian bird marks Hydro Aluminium's 40th year in the area.

Big Potato in Robertson, Australia. (Wikimedia Commons)

Robertson, Australia

Big Potato

Concrete spud looks like the North American Sebago.

Giant Ram

Wagin, Australia

Giant Ram

Everything about this over-size novelty animal is huge including its testicles.

Gog and Magog and Gaunt's Clock

Melbourne, Australia

Gog and Magog

These mythological giants take time out of their busy day guarding a Victorian market to let you know what time it is.

Frederick Valentich Memorial Plaque

Cape Otway, Australia

Frederick Valentich Memorial Plaque

A plaque at the lighthouse where Frederick Valentich made his last radio contact before he vanished without a trace.

The Big Banana in Coffs Harbour. (Wikimedia Commons)

Coffs Harbour, Australia

Big Banana

One of the first big sculptures anywhere in Australia.

The Spiky Bridge

Swansea, Australia

Spiky Bridge

This historic Australian bridge was built by convicts with giant stone spikes to prevent cattle from falling off the sides.

Ben Lomond and Loch Lomond as seen from the grounds of Ross Priory. (Margaret MacGillivray/Atlas Obscura)

Alexandria, Scotland

Loch Lomond

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

Skull and bones in the crypt

Hythe, England

St. Leonard's Church Basement Ossuary

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

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