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This “forbidden” sanctuary has managed to preserve a unique, ancient ecosystem.

A massive, photogenic gate designed after a traditional hand drum used in the regional noh

A giant bug impaled on a 75-foot-tall needle.

Belgium’s famous peeing statue has worn many hats (and coats, and pants), which are on display at this small museum.

Known as "The Spewer," this bizarre fountain has an even stranger urban legend behind it.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.

Nature is slowly overtaking this disused cemetery on the outskirts of Brussels.

This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

A strange and ancient landscape hides the dark, cavernous remains of a 5,000-year-old flint mine.

Does being buried standing up help you get into heaven faster?

A medieval cave used to shelter local hermits now holds nearly 200 old Quaker gravestones.

There's a labyrinth of manmade tunnels stretching for over an acre beneath Bristol.

This Grade II Listed Building with an Art Nouveau façade once contained a unique print shop.

Ornamented with "Bristol Diamonds," this exotic shell grotto is considered to be the finest surviving example from the eighteenth century.

After protestors toppled a statue of a 17th-century slave trader, the pedestal where it once stood remains unoccupied.

An array of ancient artifacts from Bronze Age Bristol and other civilizations are housed in this museum.

A unique sculpture cemetery dedicated to the region's defunct businesses.

England's steepest street has such a drastic incline that locals tie their parked cars to lampposts when it gets icy.

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

The tombstone of an unfortunate explorer who disappeared in the Paris Catacombs.