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A pristine wildlife habitat against the backdrop of skyscrapers, nicknamed "The World’s Wildlife Capital"

From church to drug den nightclub to gym, few New York buildings have had as many diverse uses as this one

Here began Southern California's oil boom over 100 years ago

A giant gopher perched on top of a pint-sized Mexican restaurant pays tribute to classic roadside architecture

The largest stretch of the Berlin Wall is right on top of the former SS headquarters

Inside the Herxheim museum can be seen the horrifying remains of what were probably the victims of acts of prehistoric mass cannibalism

Where some of America's earliest LGBTQ rights protests marched each Fourth of July

The stone statue that gave Elephanta Island its name now stands within the premises of a museum in Mumbai

A well-preserved Neolithic burial mound in the Cotswold hills

Situated on an ancient road to London, a medieval couple had a one-of-a-kind billboard made to pray for their souls in the afterlife

From uncovered medieval saint paintings that survived the Reformation to a memorial to a 113-year-old woman, this church contains fascinating secrets

A massive engineering and hydraulic marvel dating back to the 3rd century BC

The actual “Hotel Rwanda” that became a hiding place and refuge from the horrors of genocide in 1994.

An advertising mural tempering the behavior of Charleston’s children since the late 1800s.

Luxembourg's most popular statue since 1923 has been missing for... 26 years!

Despite its romantic name, this cross marks the site of a tragedy (and, incidentally, an ancient frontier)

A lochside castle linked to Robert the Bruce, but not everything is as it seems!

A privately owned Benedictine estate founded in 987, where a Tudor gatehouse and rare medieval guest house survive within a living historic manor in the Dorset village famous for its ancient chalk giant.

A whimsical Renaissance fountain sculpture from Florence, world-renowned for defying convention.

A 110-foot concrete dinosaur once sold fossil fuel from its belly.

Dozens of giant mermaids are hidden across Florida’s coast in parks, yards, and beaches.

Turrets, ramparts and towers, this Teesside castle has them all, but it's not all as it seems.

A campy fiberglass statue welcomes visitors to this small town in central California.

Where hand-pressed burgers meet low-flying planes — a 1950s drive-in shack at the end of an active runway in the Columbia River Gorge, with Mount Hood on one side and Mount Adams on the other.