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One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

Nikola Tesla's ashes are held in a golden sphere, surrounded by his works.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

Humble beginnings for one of the world's most famous scientists.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.

The largest underground church in Europe.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

The shattered remnants of a meteor that struck Santa Fe more than a billion years ago.

The oldest surviving glass furnace cone in Western Europe.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

At 705 feet high, Brazil's "House of Stone" is the largest cave mouth in the world.

This aquarium has almost as many world records as it does fish.

This monster board rode a monster wave to break two world records.

A mysterious monument where a woman who records say never existed was burnt alive for being a witch.

Records of the dead describe the myriad odd ways people used to die.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.