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

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

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

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

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

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

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

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

In the main dining room, a nine-ton boulder caps the fireplace designed by local architect Earl Young.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

The world's largest pineapple building honors Bathurst's favorite fruit.

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.

This giant sculpture made of trash is a critique of society's wastefulness.

Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

A magnificent place to see authentic paleolithic cave paintings that are an astounding 33,000 years old.

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

This rustic, flower-lined pathway once had very little in common with its namesake.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.