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This huge green space packed with activities will make you forget you're in the middle of the Ecuadorian capital.

With former lives as a bomb shelter and government parking lot, this shop is one of China’s most extraordinary locales for book-lovers.

This small city park is best known for the nightly convergence of thousands of shrieking parakeets.

This elegant neoclassical garden is a peaceful oasis in the middle of the Nepalese capital.

Four giant movable street lights decorate this modern Rotterdam square.

This public toilet built in the famous Amsterdam School architectural style is a Dutch national monument.

An enormous public square and parade ground built to celebrate Ghana's independence.

A pair of disused Los Angeles electrical poles now glow with delicate windows into the past.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

A collection of outdoor art by renowned muralist Robert Dafford depicts the history of a flooded city.

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

A 141-foot wave of crashing lumber guards the entrance to the Grand Place in Mons.

Beautiful tiles decorate many of the town's surfaces and stand testimony to its glorious artistic history.

The old tradition of drying laundry on poles in the public green is still guaranteed by Glasgow city law.

A bronze tribute to the wildly popular video game from the '90s.

A scattered trail of street art adds a pop of color to the city's stark structures.

The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.