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The stone sitting outside the 1100 North University Ave. Building

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Banded Iron Formation Stone

A physical reminder of Earth's ancient past, this rock results from the photosynthetic processes of some of the oldest forms of life.

Sideways' grave at Georgia Tech.

Atlanta, Georgia

The Sideways Grave of Sideways the Dog

A slanted tomb honors the faithful, furry companion of the Georgia Tech student body.

The Front of the Lemp Mansion, built in 1868. There have been three suicides in the walls of this house.

St. Louis, Missouri

Lemp Mansion

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

The Utter Inn on a frozen lake.

Västerås, Sweden

Utter Inn

A floating underwater hotel, created by a Swedish artist.

Ithaa

Rangalifinolhu, Maldives

Ithaa Undersea Restaurant

An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.

The hotel ledger from 1909.

Victoria, British Columbia

The Empress Hotel

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

Mini Trafalgar Square

Victoria, British Columbia

Miniature World

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

The site of Pitt's first assignation with his KGB handler.

New York, New York

The Wertheim Study

This study room in the New York Public Library saw the creation of one of contemporary America's greatest traitors.

Ladew Topiary Gardens

Monkton, Maryland

Ladew Topiary Gardens

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

Balls that clean the sewers

Paris, France

Musée des Egouts (Paris Museum of Sewers)

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

The bright yellow front of Yusupov Palace.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Rasputin Museum at Yusupov Palace

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

Impaled Skull of Klaus Stortebeker

Hamburg, Germany

Impaled Skull of Klaus Stortebeker

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

Shell of a dud air mine used from 1949 to 1962 as church bell.

Wiernsheim, Germany

Bomb Bell Memorial

This bomb was once used as a church after it failed to detonate.

View of Silo City and Elevator Alley from the Ohio Street Lift Bridge.

Buffalo, New York

Silo City

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

House of Francisco González

Los Santos de Maimona, Spain

House of Francisco González

A Spanish artist builds his own castle.

Graf-Ulrich-Bau Cellar Slide

Grafenau, Germany

Graf-Ulrich-Bau Slide

Inside this unique festival hall, a slide leads guests down to a subterranean watering hole.

Pfaueninsel

Berlin, Germany

Pfaueninsel

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

Einsteinturm

Potsdam, Germany

Einsteinturm

Solar observatory doubles as a daring display of Expressionist architecture, much to Einstein's chagrin.

Bridge of Spies

Berlin, Germany

Bridge of Spies

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

Plaque, date, and wheel mark this iconic moment in thievery

Adair, Iowa

Site of the First Train Robbery in the West

Lured here by the promise of tens of thousands in gold, Jesse James started a quintessentially American trend of robbing trains in-motion.

Pottawattamie Squirrel Cage Jail

Council Bluffs, Iowa

Pottawattamie Squirrel Cage Jail

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

The Villisca Axe Murder House

Villisca, Iowa

Villisca Axe Murder House

This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.

Parking space D32, where the secret meetings between Bob Woodward and Mark “Deep Throat” Felt took place.

Arlington, Virginia

Deep Throat Parking Garage

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

Waves from Lake Erie crash onto Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Lighthouse as the subzero air temperature causes the water to freeze in multiple layers.

Cleveland, Ohio

Frozen Cleveland Lighthouse

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

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