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The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

It took over 100 years to decode this enigmatic epitaph for two buried brides.

This Canadian island is a veritable garden of decay with countless abandoned structures dotting the landscape.

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.

These strikingly barren, rolling red hills were caused by bad farming practices.

Lost subway station nestled beneath Toronto's busy commuter line.

A well-preserved network of cavernous tunnels have spent silent centuries removing Toronto's waste.

One of the last remaining covered bridges in the province of Ontario.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

The statue honors the booming birds Rothsay, Minnesota, is famous for.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This subterranean shrine beneath a bike rental store celebrates the iconic Italian scooter.

One of the most important yet well-hidden museums dedicated to the history of medicine.

Ancient ruins hidden underneath a modern luxury hotel.

St. Francesca Romana, patron saint of drivers, resides in the church she founded.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.