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Sumpter, Wisconsin

Dr. Evermor's Forevertron

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.
Saint-Jean-de-Boiseau, France

The Grotesques of the Chapel of Bethlehem

Do these monsters look familiar? The gargoyles on this church are all from pop culture.
London, England

Growing Underground

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.
Bronx, New York

Hart Island

The loneliest island in New York.
San Francisco, California

Exploratorium

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.
Deerfield, Massachusetts

Deerfield Massacre Mass Grave

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.
Beatenberg, Switzerland

St. Beatus Cave

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.
Gruyères, Switzerland

H.R. Giger Museum

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.
Bern, Switzerland

The Child Eater of Bern

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.
North Adams, Massachusetts

Harmonic Bridge

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.
Paris, France

Paris Sewer Museum

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Mercer Museum and Fonthill Castle

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.
Las Vegas, Nevada

Atomic Museum

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.
Morgan Island, South Carolina

Morgan Island

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.
Paris, France

The Gravestone Courtyard

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.
Hildebran, North Carolina

Abandoned Henry River Mill Village

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.
Windhoek, Namibia

Namibia's Space Ball

Welded sphere dropped from space.
Namibia

Kolmanskop Ghost Town

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.
Marshall Islands

Cactus Dome

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.
Erwin, Tennessee

Lost Cove Settlement

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.
Dale, Indiana

Dr. Ted's Musical Marvels

Colorful collection of antique musical oddities.
Knoxville, Tennessee

William M. Bass Forensic Anthropology Center

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.
London, England

Temple of Mithras

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.
Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Torture Museum

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.