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This 14th century tower house was once the home of Irish poet W.B. Yeats.

After a traumatic encounter with a six-foot eel, one Galway baker started making a daily loaf of sourdough in its shape.

Achill's most recently abandoned village dates back to to the Age of Enlightenment.

This walkway is so narrow it needs its own light to stop pedestrian traffic jams.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

The tunnel's elegant proportions keep you snug with no claustrophobia freak-out.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

A hidden tunnel leads to an abandoned slate quarry that's now a secret swimming spot guarded by cliffs.

In a boatyard near Aberdyfi is a nautically inspired work of art.

The only medieval bridge in Britain with its defensive tower still in tact.

Quirky Welsh observatory unites art and science.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

The artist David Nash planted a circle of trees in 1977.