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A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

The only parking meter in the entire town, it is surrounded by 100 free spaces.

When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

This museum houses a large collection of old motorcycles.

Oliver Cromwell marched his army over this narrow bridge to victory at the Battle of Preston in 1648.

This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.

A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.

The oldest certified bowling alley in the United States is in the basement of this century-old bar.

A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.

This oak sculpture at the edge of a small woodland is nine feet tall and shrouded in mystery.

This statue, deep in a Swedish forest, is all alone, just like the renowned recluse would have wanted.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

On this wooded path, a stained-glass window creates a spellbinding forest cathedral.

An unusual sand beach in the middle of a forest.

This museum in the woods evokes the work and lives of Michigan's 19-century lumberjacks.

The scene of the United Kingdom's most famous UFO incident, dubbed the "British Roswell."

From a distance, this structure looks like an ordinary office building but a closer inspection reveals a unique facade.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

One fisherman has used his love of pebbles and shore to create a crazy garden of rocky art.