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This fountain was once heralded as the largest in the world.

A small 12th-century temple surrounded by waters believed to have curative properties.

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.

This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

Buddha shrines hide within dark tunnels at this unique forest temple.

Now abandoned, the world's first torpedo factory is crumbling into the sea.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

The now-overgrown beach resort was once frequented by Yugoslav military elite.

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.

A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.

According to legend a man pooped out the window of this tower to prove that it was straight.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.