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It's a fantastical local history museum with real stories -- including the first, and longest operating, traffic signal.

James E. Grosjean's Noah's Ark "spectacular display" is a primitive version of animatronics built in 1901 -- showing the biblical story in a moving diorama of animals and choreographed lights.

Pick up the receiver of this ordinary-looking phone booth and more than ten hours of voices, music, laughter and memories from the past come unexpectedly back through the line.

Hidden within the mountains of Vinh Son, this geological marvel features a roaring waterfall cascading over a massive, million-year-old basalt cliff shaped like a giant upside-down stone honeycomb.

A rainbow tunnel painted across three buildings and six storeys pulls a child (and every passerby) straight down the rabbit hole, ranked among the world's best murals the year it went up.

This slender 19th-century clock tower stands at the entrance of a famous garden and zoo.

One of Minoan Crete's most famous images, a crowned, lily-adorned figure striding through a garden, was largely invented in the 1900s from a handful of surviving fragments, and archaeologists still argue about what it actually shows.

This kaleidoscopic structure is perhaps Bristol’s most unusual temple

Hidden under a shopping centre is the genesis of modern Liverpool.

Discover the unique history of Durham from the 14th century to the present day.

A small piece of Scotland sits in a park in Lower Manhattan.

The oldest Anglican church in Central America hosted the coronations of four indigenous kings.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

The master of westerns can be found in...the coastal city of Portland?

The iconic grave markers from George A. Romero's 1968 horror masterpiece,Night of the Living Dead.

Dating back roughly 240 million years to the Triassic period, it was left by a large, 12-foot-long crocodile ancestor called a Chirotherium or "hand-beast".

See the streets of Siem Reap light up with themed paper puppets.

These "antimonuments" confront the Mexican authorities by memorializing the most troubling events in the country's modern history.

It makes sense that this airport, serving one of Mexico's most artistic cities, also doubles as a gallery.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

This massive circular sculpture may not be a portal to other worlds, but it does inspire the mind to imagine them.

The sequential animation shows a galloping horse stretching, morphing into a winged Pegasus, and finally transforming into a bird soaring.

This lighthouse has been in operation since 1881, with an interesting connection to the RMS Titanic.

Standing as a 12th-century architectural titan, this trio of brick structures boasts the tallest surviving Cham tower in Vietnam, reaching an impressive height of 38 meters.