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This enchanting natural park is a magical example of a temperate rainforest in Europe.

Every September, international competitors flock to the flooded quarries of a tiny Scottish island.

A 90-ton, gravity-defiant steam locomotive shoots for the skies in this bizarrely beautiful public artwork.

This whimsical garbage disposal facility receives around 12,000 accidental tourists each year.

This old selenite mine is dotted with tiny crystals that make it shimmer like it's covered in glitter.

This centuries-old wooden wonder was built in less than a year and is one of Europe's largest timber-framed churches.

This nondescript building hides an entrance to an underground nuclear tunnel system.

Get a close look at the gigantic remains of long-extinct mammoths.

A wonderful collection of fossilized dinosaurs and other creatures that roamed the landscape millions of years ago.

A mud statue stands in the dark tunnels, seeming to hold up the weight of the city above.

A museum of co-operativism housed in the birthplace of the modern movement.

For decades, Puerta del Sol has been illuminated by a giant, guitar-wielding bottle of sherry.

A replica of the beloved character's house, modeled after the author's own drawings.

A line of disused military bunkers built to defend against Nazi invasion lies hidden on the outskirts of the city.

A 15th-century former coaching inn forms the implausibly grand entrance to a 1980s shopping mall.

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.

A replica of the home of a famous fictional troll family.

This enormous fish commemorates the unplanned release of brown trout into a Michigan river.

These sea cliffs are an epic natural wonder.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

Its appearance in "Game of Thrones" may spur on the long-awaited restoration of this medieval shipyard.

Thanks to its curved shape, this incredibly durable dam "whispers" to visitors.

The building is topped by a Statue of Liberty statue whose torch has stayed burning since the museum opened.

These flying foxes dangle from the trees around the library like fuzzy black fruit.