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Known as Manila's "last lung," this park used to house a market, garrison, and various government buildings.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

A brutalist gem towering over the heart of Milan.

Hundreds of wooden coffins dangle from cliffs and caves in the Philippines.

These tiered rice paddies were carved into the hillsides 2,000 years ago.

Just off the road outside Baguio, a gigantic lion's head carved into a mountain greets those driving by.

An island in the middle of a lake, in the middle of a volcano, in the middle of a bigger lake, in the middle of a bigger island, in an archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.

An eatery in a shallow river where diners can enjoy their meal mere feet from the base of an artificial waterfall.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

The secret medieval communication system will whisk your words above the noise of the crowd.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

Two very green residential towers cleaning the air in one of Europe's most polluted cities.

This historic Art Nouveau townhouse was the former home of the son of a famous chemical inventor and industrialist.

This curious fresh and salt water lake holds a secret that draws in deep divers from around the world.

Five miles of underground river link lake to ocean.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

A monument to placate the spirits of an ancient forest.

Visit this church that's shaped like a giant glass pump either to cater to women or to reference a tragic local tale. Or both.

Only through deep darkness and tragedy did this elaborate royal palace become a sacred temple.

The first Confucian temple in Taiwan, founded by the son of a pirate lord, doubled as the island's first state-sponsored school.

Visit Taiwan’s badlands, which allows visitors to feel like they’re walking on the moon.

This hike brings visitors closer to Taipei 101, once the world’s tallest building, than any other trail.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.