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A deep toxic lake fills this abandoned open-pit copper mine, now a Superfund site.

This Buddhist temple is home to a number of towering statues spread over a peaceful wooded park.

The father of Belfast medicine is buried in the graveyard of this 13th-century church, which now lies in ruins.

This structure, built more than 60 years ago to manage devastating seasonal floods, is known to attract a rare species of freshwater dolphin.

One of the last designs from architect Oscar Niemeyer.

Underneath the historic center of Mexico City, the remains of a temple dedicated to the Aztec god of the wind.

This concrete monster of a wreck lies in the mouth of Langstone Harbour as a monument to the incredible history of D-Day.

Reclaimed material from a convent destroyed by cannonfire was used to build parts of this 19th-century cemetery.

A museum of space exploration in the UFO capital of Japan.

The largest stone circle in Ireland.

The childhood home of the legendary blues guitarist and singer.

Dozens of rockets and missiles are on display outside a testing facility in the Utah desert.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

Though the case is scorched and the buttons half-melted, this hardy handheld gaming device can still run a game of Tetris.

The final resting place of a free Black soldier who played a pivotal role in the Battle of Bunker Hill.

A small stone pillar marks the spot where Mary, Queen of Scots, spent her final hours as a free woman.

One of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings, built between 1886 and 1890 for the industrialist Eusebi Güell.

A renovated hotel is bringing new life to a nearly-abandoned mining town in Colorado.

On high feast days, the entire blue-glass front of this modern church opens up to reveal the small wooden church inside.

A stately castle in the northern Italian countryside has been restored after years of neglect.

In the middle of a peaceful campus garden lies a lone grave.

Now in ruins, this abbey was the home of Tironensian monks for more than 400 years.

This authentic Fijian restaurant helps farmers and fishermen recover from natural disaster.

On the southwestern tip of the Isle of Man, a stone monument to one of the island's great conservationists.