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Staten Island, New York

Remains of Fort Wadsworth

Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.
Queens, New York

Fort Totten

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.
London, England

Temple Church

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.
New York, New York

The New York Earth Room

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.
Barcelona, Spain

Calder Mercury Fountain

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.
London, England

Crossbones Graveyard

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.
New York, New York

Tannen's Magic Shop

New York's oldest magic store.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Conflict Kitchen

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.
Xilitla, Mexico

Las Pozas

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.
London, England

Hunterian Museum

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

Socotra Island

The most alien-looking place on Earth.
London, England

Black Museum

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.
London, England

The Lost River Fleet

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.
Painswick, England

Painswick Rococo Garden

Asthmatic Charles Hyett's son built a fantastical garden for his father to convalesce in, alas it was too late.
Coleford, England

Puzzlewood

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."
Brooklyn, New York

Morbid Anatomy Museum

A museum devoted to bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.
New York, New York

Dream House

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.
England

Maunsell Army Sea Forts

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.