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Life-sized painted illusions let pedestrians blend in with the street art.

This spa in Hanoi is staffed exclusively by the visually impaired.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

Despite their macabre past, these hooks are said to bring good luck to those who touch them.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Entire apothecaries are on display at this Lisbon museum, which explores the history of medicine.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

A bright little alley in La Boca is a part of tango history.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

Beneath the impressive baroque cathedral that rises from the center of Berlin lies the largest collection of Prussian royals in the world.

A solemn, monumental, kitschy palace of worship honoring victory in the Great Patriotic War.

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

Two graffiti towers stand like ghosts of Vancouver's World War II-era defensive outpost.

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

A student driver's nightmare.

This stone harbor was key to Carnlough's limestone industry.

The ancestral home of the 21st president of the United States of America.