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View of the moored vessel and the attached beach (Flickr / beelaineo)
Berlin, Germany

Badeschiff

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.
(Cannon Films Archive)
Genoa, Italy

Roman Polanski's Neptune

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.
Hotel Puntagrande
El Hierro, Spain

Hotel Puntagrande

Teeny tiny hotel on the coast of the Canary Islands.
(Flickr/DrJohnBullas)
Fort Smith, Northwest Territories

Diavik Diamond Mine

Ice roads, deep holes and 3,500 pounds of diamonds.
Kesennuma, Japan

Kori no Suizokukan

450 dead and frozen fish, proudly on display in Japan.
Tokyo, Japan

Vampire Café

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.
Tataouine, Tunisia

Ksar Ouled Soltane

A 15th-century granary that played the role of futuristic slave quarters in the world of 'Star Wars.'
Massive bomb remnants outside Craters (Flickr/Paul Carson / Embikei Images)
Phonsavan, Laos

Craters Restaurant

Eat a meal surrounded by bomb fragments.
A boat coffin in 1960 (WikiCommons)
Accra, Ghana

Ga-Adangbe Caskets - Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop

The clever workshop that has been designing some of the most unusual coffins imaginable.
Cracked hard-boiled eggs after soaking
Jinhua, China

Tongzi Dan: Boy Eggs

Urine-soaked Chinese eggs.
The remodeled exterior of the police station-turned-hotel.
Tsai Po, Hong Kong

Old Tai O Police Station

A station built to repel pirates now attracts wealthy vacationers.
Present day Huautla de Jiménez
Huautla de Jiménez, Mexico

Huautla de Jiménez

Southern Mexico under the influence of mushrooms, ceremony and celebrity.
A canopied entrance to the once luxurious hotel (Flickr/oladybug0)
San Blas, Mexico

Playa Hermosa

A wild Hollywood resort thwarted by mosquitoes.
Munich, Germany

Kunstkammer Georg Laue

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.
The house that moved in Exeter. (spi/Flickr)
Exeter, England

House That Moved

Old Tudor home moved on thick iron rails to a new spot.
Los Angeles, California

Townhouse Bar and Speakeasy

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.
Wall of Big Mouth Billy Bass
Little Rock, Arkansas

Billy Bass Adoption Center

Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.
Ruins of Hacienda Nápoles
Puerto Triunfo, Colombia

Hacienda Nápoles

Former drug lord’s manor, now a theme park. Watch out for the hippos.