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This pair of unsuspecting buildings are in fact the very first modern skyscrapers in Europe.

The site of Stockholm's last public execution.

A 14th-century church holds a unique monument to a German mathematician who dedicated his life to calculating the value of pi.

A memorial commemorating the place where Truman gave the order to deploy the first nuclear bombs on Japan.

These 250-year-old wagon tracks are a lasting sign of Dutch migrants crossing the mountains.

A statue of an astronomer gazes at the sky as a tribute to Caroline Herschel.

The world's largest collection of fire-fighting items dating back almost 350 years.

A futuristic rocket marks the spot where three borders meet.

A 19th-century relic of timekeeping.

A uniquely preserved neo-Gothic church that is now home to a collection of art and woodcarvings.

A local train station entrance hall doubles as a sanctuary for barn swallows.

A solid steel plane designed to catch fire over and over again.

In the basement of a San Francisco performing arts center, a small museum dedicated to the history of showgirls.

The cutest way to stay safe in traffic.

From atop a hill at the center of Cape Town, a cannon has been signalling the time since 1806.

A space-grade telescope mirror lies discarded in the shrubs.

In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin briefly ran their fledgling company from this Silicon Valley garage.

The hands on this clock appear to be created by two workers sweeping debris into careful positions.

This spectrum of a star was observed by one of the world's most accurate spectrographs. 

Under the shadow of its towering parent tree, a rare specimen of sequoia produces ghostly white leaves.

This massive redwood tree has stood in Northern California for nearly 2,000 years.

A tribute to the artist and activist who created the rainbow pride flag.

Watch cheese-flipping robots in action at this factory and museum.

Gander at model satellites and telescopes in this scientific lobby.