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Invented in the mid-19th century, this machine could send copied images via telegraph lines.

Designed to provide fantastic views of the surrounding rainforest.

One of London's oldest houses contains a mixture of both old and modern features.

Pick up this rock and become an instant legend.

No other place in Scotland has such a high concentration of prehistoric carved stone surfaces.

To commemorate a century of gold mining, this Australian city built a monument that features a replica of a 150-pound gold nugget found there in 1858.

Two craters, which probably erupted within the last 1,500 years and are now filled by alkaline lakes, represent Nevada's youngest known volcanic activity.

Preserved behind glass, the ruins of a medieval building used to store human remains.

After several moves across Mexico City, these two statues found a home in Mestizaje Park.

On the grounds of a hospital in Ghana, a legendary sword said to have been plunged into the earth hundreds of years ago.

The crumbling ruins of an abandoned 12th-century monastery.

In the 1940s, Italian architect Mario Cavallè built a dozen of these round homes in northern Milan.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

This church doubles a museum dedicated to Norwegian heritage.

An ode to one of the dirtiest jobs during the construction of the Boulder Dam.

A Swiss magician's vault of oddities.

This vanilla farm serves its crops at an on-site café.

One of the youngest volcanic eruption sites in Australia.