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Bellevue Hospital in New York, New York

For the inhabitants of New York City in the gaslight era, there was one name that was guaranteed to chill the heart: Bellevue.Whilst places like Five Points, Murderer's Row, and the Mulberry Bend were...

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Talliston House & Gardens in Dunmow, United Kingdom

Once an ordinary house in an ordinary street, Talliston has been transformed into a wonderland of unique and inspirational locations.Behind an arched oak door set in a thicket hedge lies Talliston...

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Fairy Post Office in Orinda, California

Tucked away in woodland hollow on a path in Orinda's Tilden Park is an itty-bitty postal station that looks like it was built by a fairy bureaucrat, and which regularly receives letters from hikers and...

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Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey, New Hampshire

One of the most climbed mountains in the world, Mount Monadnock sees many hikers on its peak, but thats about all that's left up there after early settlers burnt the peak barren a couple of...

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Vale da Lua in Goiás, Brazil

Located just near the Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park in Goiás, Brazil the otherworldly rock formation known as the Vale da Lua is a mesmerizing landscape of undulating pits and hollows that look...

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Museum of a Million and One Roots in Cornimont, France

Twisting around the floor, walls, and ceilings of the Museum of a Million and One Roots in Cornimont, France are fanciful creatures of all shape and kind, seemingly organic clocks and lamps, and...

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Schloss Hellbrunn in Salzburg, Austria

Schloss Hellbrunn was the summer playhouse of Markus Sittikus, the archbishop of Salzburg, built in 1619. The palace was only for the daytime; there are no bedrooms in the home. It was simply an...

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The Old Headquarters of Murder, Inc. in Brooklyn, New York

On the corner of Saratoga and Livonia Avenues in Brownsville, Brooklyn, there used to be a 24 hour candy store. During the 1930s and 40s, the Midnight Rose Candy Store, located under the elevated...

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Witley Wonder Underwater Ballroom in Surrey, England

Called an "Underwater Ballroom," in reality it was a subterranean smoking room built beneath a roof aquarium. Either way, it was spectacular, and like everything else on Whitaker Wright's Lea Park...

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Tengfeng Fish Ball Museum in New Taipei City, Taiwan

While they are not a staple of American diets, fish balls are a common snack across China, and one manufacturer of the food has opened a museum devoted singularly to educating visitors about the...

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Eagle-Shawmut Mine in Lake Don Pedro, California

California's Lake Don Pedro is a jagged reservoir smack dab in the middle of California, and while the desolate wilderness area surrounding it has a number of recreational activities, the true draw to...

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Niagara Mohawk Building in Syracuse, New York

Located miles upstate from such Manhattan architectural landmarks as the Chrysler Building and Rockefeller Center, the former power company headquarters known as the Niagara Mohawk Building makes all...

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Robert the Doll in Key West, Florida

Robert Eugene Otto -- or Gene, as his family called him -- was just a young boy in the early 1900s when his family's maid gave him a strange, straw-filled doll to play with. Gene loved his life-sized...

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Forney Transportation Museum in Denver, Colorado

Growing from a private car collection to the eclectic vehicle collection that exists today, the Forney Transportation Museum in Denver, Colorado contains such oddities as Amelia Earhart's car, a bashed...

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South Pole Ice Tunnels in Antarctica

Deep below one of the world’s most remote outposts, a network of tunnels cut into the ice has come to house “shrines” dedicated to both the odd, and the profound.Founded as a small research base at the...

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Hammetschwand Elevator in Bürgenstock, Switzerland

Straddling the exposed rock face of Switzerland's Mt. Bürgenstock is the towering Hammetschwand Elevator, the tallest outdoor lift in Europe, which shoots passengers from an underground boarding...

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Moccasin Bar in Hayward, Wisconsin

You never know who you'll run into after downing a few pints in a strange dive bar, but Wisconsin's Moccasin Bar might be the only watering hole where you can run into yodeling chipmunks and boxing...

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Chopin's Heart in Warsaw, Poland

During his final days, famed Polish composer Frédéric Chopin, with fawning Parisian women fainting all around him, he made the gruesome request that his heart be taken from his corpse and sent back to...

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Barthman's Sidewalk Clock in New York , New York

At the dawning of the 20th century it didn't take as much effort to garner the attention of the buying public as it does today, but the core principle remains the same: novelty. The titular owner of...

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The Unfinished Church in St. George, Bermuda

While Bermuda's Unfinished Church looks as though it was built in medieval times and left to fall apart and rot, it is actually a fairly recent construction that was just never able to be completed due...

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