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A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

The world’s largest magazine collection was born from a single shelf in a teen’s bedroom.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.