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Prior to modern plumbing, some toilets were in tall towers perched over rivers.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

Discover this sandstone alcove, a geologic wonder in southern Utah, that continues to slowly shape shift.

This 12th-century castle majestically overlooks the city and the beautiful Mosel River valley.

The cascade created by Taipei’s rush-hour traffic has become one of the city’s quirkiest photo spots.

The hillside where Edvard Munch experienced the panic attack that inspired “The Scream” offers one of the most striking evening views in Oslo.

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

An island in the middle of a lake, in the middle of a volcano, in the middle of a bigger lake, in the middle of a bigger island, in an archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.

Vulture Mine was Arizona’s most productive gold mine, and instrumental to the development of Phoenix.

The first building to be positively identified as Anglo-Saxon in origin.

Iceland's largest geothermal mud pool is a little bit haunted and a little bit dangerous.

A Scottish tycoon’s unfinished mansion is known as one of Malaysia’s most haunted buildings.

This stone polylith serves as both a 100+ year old experiment and monument to the history of science.

Now a museum, this building is one of the last surviving silk mills in Macclesfield.

Home to the first child born to English colonists in North America, this colony mysteriously disappeared while waiting for supplies.

Western Australia’s heavenly staircase is not for the faint of heart.

These quaint stepping stones traverse the river that connects three of England’s most beautiful lakes.

The bright red stripes streaking across the rocks are the star feature at this Icelandic waterfall.

Suspended from this brewery’s tasting room ceiling is a full-sized fin whale skeleton.

This rail trail culminates in a three-mile land bridge only accessible to cyclists and pedestrians.

A marvel of engineering, this road ascends a Norwegian hill through six spirals inside of it.

A 400-year-old live oak tree with a fictitiously morbid past.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”