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Two craters, which probably erupted within the last 1,500 years and are now filled by alkaline lakes, represent Nevada's youngest known volcanic activity.

To commemorate a century of gold mining, this Australian city built a monument that features a replica of a 150-pound gold nugget found there in 1858.

No other place in Scotland has such a high concentration of prehistoric carved stone surfaces.

Preserved behind glass, the ruins of a medieval building used to store human remains.

After several moves across Mexico City, these two statues found a home in Mestizaje Park.

On the grounds of a hospital in Ghana, a legendary sword said to have been plunged into the earth hundreds of years ago.

The crumbling ruins of an abandoned 12th-century monastery.

In the 1940s, Italian architect Mario Cavallè built a dozen of these round homes in northern Milan.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

A mouldering Colombian bull ring stands as a reminder of the country's complicated relationship with a brutal sport.

Visitors to the National Museum of Nepal can moon over a set of well-traveled flags.

Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.

Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.

At this monastery, monks make raw-milk cheese and use excess whey to create methane that powers their hot-water system.

A fake block of cheese remembers a feat of dairy engineering from the Chicago World's Fair.

A Swiss magician's vault of oddities.

This vanilla farm serves its crops at an on-site café.

One of the youngest volcanic eruption sites in Australia.

An amazing model of a whale's jaw bone pays homage to the region's seafaring traditions.

A tribute to the first human in space.

The waters of these secluded falls are said to have healing powers.

The walls of this sandstone outcropping are covered with 2,000-year-old artwork.

Mind the rock monster at this cave.