Rashwood, England
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A 19th-century British industrialist built this Louis XIII–inspired chateau for his homesick French wife.
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Rashwood, England
A 19th-century British industrialist built this Louis XIII–inspired chateau for his homesick French wife.
Natchez, Mississippi
A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.
Somerset, England
The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.
Burnley, England
This window celebrates the role of tea, coffee, cocoa, and cotton in creating the fortune of the man who commissioned it.
San Martín de Montalbán, Spain
This ancient Visigothic church might hide an ancient treasure.
Somerset, England
This astronomical clock is the second oldest in England.
Barnard Castle, England
This building was once a town hall, a fire station, a prison, a dairy market, and the target for two marksmen.
Maglič, Serbia
The ruins of this medieval castle on a foggy hill tell the story of a once-mighty empire.
Torrance, California
This Chinese art gallery is hidden inside the Sunrider Corporation headquarters.
Kansas City, Missouri
The famous greeting card maker owns a collection of paintings by the famed surrealist.
Mbabane, Eswatini
This granite mountain is the largest rock in Africa and the second-largest monolith in the world.
Almansa, Spain
Commemorating a battle where French troops were commanded by an Englishman, and English troops by a Frenchman.
Oaxaca, Mexico
In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.
Oxford, England
This hidden 13th-century tavern room has a few Shakespearean connections.
Indianapolis, Indiana
This multisensory alley has the ability to remind bustling citygoers to stop and smell the roses.
Tucson, Arizona
Visitors to this public park will also find the ruins of an old western fort.
Lepakshi, India
Inside a beautiful Indian temple is a seemingly magical floating pillar that doesn't touch the ground.
Irving, Texas
Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.
Kathmandu, Nepal
This Kathmandu museum, built in an Austrian modernist style, looks like a set from Star Wars.
Lyons, Illinois
A source of civic pride, though the reason for its construction is unknown.
Hakone, Japan
Once the main gateway to Tokyo, sneaking through this checkpoint was a capital offense in feudal times.
Kamakura, Japan
This mysterious medieval grotto holds a grid of sacred wells of unknown purpose.
Essex, Connecticut
British troops and Prohibition couldn’t stop this spot from becoming one of the United States' oldest continuously-run taverns.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The healing properties of this well attracted royals and commoners throughout the Middle Ages.