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This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.

A stunning silver lining to global warming's gloomy cloud.

The largest collection of medicinal plants in Australia is also home to a witch who will show you how to use them.

This bakery sells traditional Māori sourdough.

Inside this faux cave, visitors can learn how some of their favorite fantasy characters were created.

Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.

Enjoy coffee and cake while viewing antique medical equipment at this unique cafe.

This volcanic plug boasts the longest recorded history of any Scottish stronghold.

Even after the church tried to wipe the practice out, this pagan festival lives on each year in a small Scottish village.

Overlooking a Scottish loch, this beautifully crumbling castle once inspired a poem by William Wordsworth.

Ruined castle with subterranean vaulted Goblin Ha' or "Goblin Hall."

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

A sprawling collection of books and manuscripts about ancient Greece that would have put their famed libraries to shame.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

Five ancient libraries, little changed for centuries, preserve a medieval archive of Quranic lore and civic documents

This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

This 15th century pharmacy displays a beautiful collection of ancient medicine jars.

Folky pharmaceuticals abound in this medicinal reliquary.