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The former home of one of the U.K.’s most notable families of suffragettes is now a museum dedicated to women’s rights.

Long before Europeans arrived, Native Americans built an artificial island out of shells that has withstood a millennia of hurricanes.

A tiny museum dedicated to the world’s tallest true giant sits on an island he never set foot on.

The source of America's longest river is also a historical landmark and the start of a famous nude run.

The ghostly remains of a gunpowder mill lost in 70 hectares of thick woods.

After attracting attention for nearly three decades while standing in front of a church, this phallic stone sculpture is now tucked away in a campus backyard.

This Swiss cemetery is reserved for people who died in climbing accidents.

At 11,500 feet in elevation, there is no toilet in the state closer to the sky than this one.

This remote river crossing was a popular campground on American westward expansion trails, and a former Pony Express station.

The last gas-lit cinema in the United Kingdom, and perhaps the world.

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

The largest battery in New England sits atop a Massachusetts mountain.

Some believe this tree to be more than 1,500 years old.

An outdoor display of military missiles developed at Point Mugu Naval Base.

The only Roman honorific column in Istanbul.

An 18th-century religious argument etched into stone.

During the renovation of this bas-relief, the constructors added one unusual element.

This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.