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A raised Japanese building has preserved 8th-century artifacts for more than a millennium, earning this log cabin a reputation as the "world's oldest museum."

The hearts of 54 Habsburg royals received special burials here separate from their bodies.

A house that transports visitors back to Yugoslavia.

This station on an abandoned railway line, named for “happiness,” is still a popular destination for lovers.

One of the largest vehicles ever built is now open to the public.

Roma who struck it rich in the 1980s built extravagant mansions in this small Romanian town.

According to legend, a Sufi saint decreed that 11 men can lift this roughy 150-pound stone with only their index fingers upon invoking his name.

Surrounded by natural bridges, this picturesque waterfall drops hundreds of feet into an underground cave.

A coastal French town said to have been visited by Jesus' disciples is a major pilgrimage center for Catholic Romanis.

The “world’s smallest cathedral” is a remnant of one of Croatia’s medieval royal towns.

Built for a motel, this cartoon dino is now a symbol of the area's paleontological heritage.

Get your footwear fixed inside a 30-foot-long shoe built by an obsessive cobbler in 1947.

A never-finished memorial to the heroes of the Napoleonic War has become "Scotland's Folly."

A collection of busts honor the first 29 prime ministers of Australia.

A mammoth WWII anti-air defense tower has been repurposed as a hotel with a rooftop garden.

The highest point in Denmark has been a matter of dispute for over 80 years.

This massive, ancient canal system was built using only sticks and stones.

Thermal springs at the bottom of this lake create beautiful blue circles of clay.

Honoring the adaptive athlete's Marathon of Hope.

Swim in these hot springs filled with three-million-year-old water, deep in the Australian Outback.

This palace offers an 18th-century European take on Chinese design and architecture.

Phoenix man has two yards full of vintage signs and antiques.

A camera with an ongoing exposure time of 1,000 years.

Lombard Street may be more famous, but this is the real “crookedest street in the world.”