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One of the Chinsekikan's most popular stones: Elvis Presley.

Chichibu, Japan

Chichibu Chinsekikan (Hall of Curious Rocks)

This quirky little private museum is home to more than a thousand stones, carved by nature, that resemble human faces.

'Inscription of the Island'

Singapore

'Inscription of the Island'

An artist crafted this lonely left hand as an imagined relic from Singapore's history.

The museum with clocktower (left) and Technocratic Cathedral

Stratford, Connecticut

Boothe Memorial Park

This eclectic homestead is home to a miniature windmill and Connecticut's last tollbooth.

Alter Flugplatz Frankfurt am Main

Frankfurt, Germany

Alter Flugplatz Frankfurt am Main

Revitalization efforts converted a former U.S. military heliport into a sprawling urban park.

Veado

Nazaré, Portugal

'Veado'

A deer-headed statue that brings together a 12th-century legend and big wave surfing.

“La griffe du Diable” (the claw of the devil)

Uchon, France

Les Rochers du Carnaval

Erosion left these fascinating granite formations strewn across fields and mountains in Burgundy.

Nanzoin Temple

Sasaguri, Japan

Nanzoin Temple

A serene mountaintop temple complex featuring one big, bronze Buddha.

Guignard Brick Works

Cayce, South Carolina

Guignard Brick Works

A handful of beehive kilns are all that’s left of a historic brick-making empire.

Kleine Wache

Aachen, Germany

Kleine Wache

A former customs station on the border of Germany and the Netherlands.

Inside the train car.

Collingwood, Australia

Easey's

A train car sitting on a rooftop makes an unlikely and picturesque setting for dinner.

Neseblod Records

Oslo, Norway

Neseblod Records

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.

Laurel Hill Tunnel Racecar Testing
Permanently Closed

Stahlstown, Pennsylvania

Laurel Hill Tunnel Racecar Testing

A piece of crumbling highway infrastructure was repurposed as a high-tech facility for testing racecars.

Near the village, there is this curious building, built in 1870. Inside it there was a steam plant, to lift the lead and silver minerals from the galleries below the ground. The miners nicknamed it "Sa Macchina Beccia" (The old machine, in Sardinian language). The plant stopped working in 1940.

Iglesias, Italy

Villaggio Minerario Asproni

A former mining village that now operates as an open-air museum.

Ha Kome Cave Dwellings

Lesotho

Ha Kome Cave Dwellings

An 18th-century hideout became a permanent and ongoing residence for one Lesotho tribe.

The church from the front

San Luis Potosí, Mexico

The Church in the Desert

Past the hills and beyond the graveyard, this church feels extremely out of place.

4,000 pound wooden nickel

Iowa City, Iowa

World’s Largest Wooden Nickel

This 16-foot-diameter wooden coin has been standing in Iowa City since 2006.

'De Bospoldervos'

Rotterdam, Netherlands

'De Bospoldervos'

A massive stone fox oversees a Rotterdam elementary school crosswalk.

Old Airport Control Tower

Cancún, Mexico

Old Airport Control Tower

One of Mexico's youngest major cities still holds on to this structure representing its short modern history.

Along M Street

Washington, D.C.

The Transportation Walk

Outside the Department of Transportation, a collection of artifacts honors the history of how we get around.

Inside the carriage

Sakawa, Japan

Uemachi Station

Though it won't take you far, the wood train housed at this station is the last of its kind in Japan.

Museu da Farmácia

Lisbon, Portugal

Museu da Farmácia

Entire apothecaries are on display at this Lisbon museum, which explores the history of medicine.

Sunrise at the summit of Mount Kosciuszko

Thredbo, Australia

Mount Kosciuszko Summit

The tallest mountain in mainland Australia.

Porter's Island bridge, built in 1894, showcasing the original lattice railing.

Ottawa, Ontario

Pandemic Bridge at Porter's Island

The metal truss bridge served as the sole entry point to an "isolation island" for smallpox outbreaks throughout the 1870s and early 1940s.

The Chasms 2.

Rushen, Isle of Man

The Chasms

This unique rock formation has become a popular walking trail.

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