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A 19th century grave house with a unique message formed by the stone supports to the railing around the walls.

While you wait to cross the street at a traffic light in Mainz, you might notice that the light is staring back at you.

A unique flight of canal locks that owe their form to 19th-century cost-saving measures.

This impeccably preserved farmstead is a time capsule of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's life.

A distinctive building that incorporates a mythical beast into its architecture.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

Trees emerge from the surface of this small man-made reservoir.

Dedicated to the American general whose reply to a German demand for surrender was simply "Nuts!"

Known locally as "the giant head," this 14-foot LED sculpture has a photo booth in the neck where you can have a 3D picture taken and displayed.

Home to a full-scale replica of the Ezekiel Airship, an aircraft that allegedly flew in 1902—a year before the Wright brothers took to the skies over Kitty Hawk.

The longest hiking route on the island of Java leads to this inactive volcano.

Of the many Jesuit missions in South America, this complex is one of the best preserved.

This poured-concrete water reservoir is a gem of modernist architecture well-hidden in a city forest.

Once the central jail for Los Angeles, this building housed inmates like Al Capone, those arrested from the Zoot Suit and Watts Riots, and individuals imprisoned for their sexuality.

One of the world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridges.

Of five volcanoes located in the massive Tengger caldera, this cone is the youngest and most active.

Eliza and Mary Chulkhurst were the first famous conjoined twins in England, but it's not clear when they were born.

A lonely memorial to the 107 victims of Pan Am Flight 812, which crashed in Bali in 1974.