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A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.

This Torino museum honors a soldier who kept the city safe using barrels of exploding gunpowder, losing his life in the process.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

Dynamite factory turned museum explores the history of explosives.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

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

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.