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The nearly 200-year-old building displays a perplexing grammatical error.

A clerical error gave rise to this imaginary micronation in the southwestern corner of Estonia.

This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

A misunderstanding gave this 18th-century racehorse a most amusing name.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

A ruined Maya city that suffered a years-long case of mistaken identity.

Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.

This site is both a remarkable reminder of the town's mining history and a fantastic government blooper.

Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.

The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

A war-torn Olympic relic is being overtaken by graffiti and nature.

This abandoned Olympic skiing facility still bears the scars of the Siege of Sarajevo.

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.

A massive Montreal stadium that has seen nothing but trouble since its inception.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

This isolated island is often capped by its own fluffy cloud.

A retired firefighter created this contraption so he and his family wouldn't die if accidentally buried alive.

Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

A copy of the brutal decapitation device that predated the French Guillotine by about 200 years.

Legend says this rock was once a chopping block for public executions.