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Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

There are plenty of wonderful panoramic vistas in Edinburgh, but not many are hidden smack in the middle of the Old Town.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

An Amazonian hotel is the ultimate treehouse and provides stilt based accommodation.

A place of enchantment where stories of the past seem to come to life.

This public elevator links the lower city to the upper city of Salvador.

This kilometer-long university building is an unexpected architectural delight.

This attraction is devoted to the wonders of steam power and features a replica of one of its most public disasters.

A beautiful midcentury mural by the famed Brazilian modernist artist Emiliano Di Cavalcanti.

An enigmatic mural hiding in plain sight in one of São Paulo's busiest metro stations.