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An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

"Unity, Creativity, Beauty."

The oldest known university in the world is in Fez, Morocco.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

The highest tropical mountain range in the world is in Central Peru, home to a vast array of exotic and quirky plants and animals.

Surreal works of unreal stone and metal dot the landscape of this Latvian art park.

After 11 years of reconstruction work, Slovakia's finest hilltop chapel complex is finally reopen to the public.

This beautiful system of tunnels built into natural rock serves as a centuries old plumbing system.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

Visit a surreal landscape so otherworldly NASA actually used it to train the Apollo 17 crew.

The tiny Belgian town's ancient version of Mardi Gras involves eerie wax masks, sticks for warding off evil, and ostrich plume hats.

A city built from mud and known as the "Manhattan of the desert."

Birthplace of the "Cat in the Cradle" and a cluster of iconic, original windmills that let the Dutch tame the seas.

A mere stone's throw from Islamabad exists a spectacular display of three millennia of humanity's progress.

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

This star-shaped military outpost is now simply trying to protect itself from neglect.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?