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A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

This underground holding cell was forgotten for over a century and rediscovered in the 1960s.

A late-19th century diversion canal built by hand crosses Bryce Canyon National Park and is still in use.

The history of Greece is illustrated through banknotes.

A former limestone quarry has found a new life as a flourishing community garden.

To make itself stand out in a city renowned for its numerous museums, this photographic archive resorts to immersively-themed exhibitions.

It's a repurposed treasure trove of history, located just an hour away from Acadia National Park.

Little has changed in the way that this mill operates since the 18th-century.

Every autumn, this grove of living fossils erupts in a blaze of brilliant golden-yellow leaves and stinky fruit.

A thorough look at the development and history of the underground's rolling stock of the Madrid subway system.

A massive playground in the woods of Germany.

Watch a magnificent, ever-changing colorscape inside James Turrell's immersive work of art.

This steam locomotive served as both an interesting static display and unique playground equipment since 1959.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.

This giant, rotating globe was built to celebrate the expansion of a company that makes steam cleaners and pressure washers.

This pair of unsuspecting buildings are in fact the very first modern skyscrapers in Europe.

This is an amazing but little known tile mosaic mural that used to grace the lobby of an office building in 1958, but now can only be seen from the second floor of a Shoppers Drug Mart.

The only natural cave bath in all of Europe.

This magnificent natural sandstone bridge is one of the largest in the world and is an iconic symbol for Lake Powell.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

This largely forgotten piece of Cold War history stands hidden in the woods just north of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.