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This collection of neon icons is preserving Arizona's history, one sign at a time.

This soviet pilot's graveyard is filled with headstones made of airplane fins.

This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.

This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.

Although now a decaying ruin, this stone cabin's history includes several notable figures.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.

A stone pillar marking the location of the westernmost battle of the American Civil War only honors one side of the conflict.

Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)

At an isolated roadside rest area stands a monument marking where famous Western star Tom Mix died in 1940.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

This World War II-era bunker is now packed with posters and props from movies and TV shows filmed nearby.

This museum sits on the site of a decommissioned military communications base.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of the Navajo Nation.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

A neighborhood church's unusual abstract stained glass was the final project of avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau.

This California artist's front yard acts as a gallery for his unique, scrap metal animal sculptures.

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.