Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

The ruins of this medieval castle in Northern Ireland have inspired artists from C.S. Lewis to Led Zeppelin.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

One of Australia's famed "Big Things," this giant fruit was once stolen as part of a publicity stunt.

Giant fruit signaling the entrance to a tropical paradise.

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.

A massive metal lobster welcomes tourists to a roadside restaurant.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

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