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Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

One architect's organic, human-centric design has been fully realized in this alien art house.

Check out the underground party scene at the "Burning Man of Brooklyn."

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.

This small cemetery is all that remains of Atlanta's first Black communities.

A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.

North America's oldest authentic African Village.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."