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A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

WWII-era bunkers are hidden under the beaches of this picturesque park, which is still scattered with wartime watchtowers. .

This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.