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Explore a remarkable 35-hectare sculpture garden located an hour outside of Lisbon.

A 14-foot-tall Bigfoot statue stands guard over this café and filming location.

This scenic cable car ride glides 100 feet above Mexico City.

Paisley's oldest open green space contains a rather ostentatious fountain at its center.

In the basement of a San Francisco performing arts center, a small museum dedicated to the history of showgirls.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

One of the best-preserved medieval streets in Europe.

An intricate network of underground tombs carved into volcanic rock.

Sip creative cocktails in the former vault of the Riggs Bank.

These modest Midwestern formations are kin to Niagara Falls' impressive cliffs, more than 600 miles away.

Visit a haunted Mughal mosque and the tomb of a Sufi saint and his disciple.

Located close to a movie studio lot, this restaurant has a long history of star-studded patronage.

Underneath this water pump, Annie Sullivan helped Keller speak her first words.

Once the overnight home of Mary Queen of Scots.

The upstairs museum delves into the Lawson family murder, whose eight victims were embalmed at this store in 1929.

A century ago, aspiring socialites climbed on this cement beast with the hopes of marrying a millionaire.

This 36-foot-tall bronze Lady Liberty holds a real flaming torch.

This historic castle is one of the oldest and most impressive in all of Japan.

A home built and settled by a refugee of the Salem Witch Trials.

Wally is the 26-foot-long fiberglass emissary for Garrison, North Dakota, one of the self-proclaimed (and hotly contested) Walleye Capitals of the World.

Small caves once used as a hiding place for some of those accused during the Salem Witch Trials.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

This inverted metropolis model is the artist's "revenge" for not being allowed to have a doll house as a kid.