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A lush oasis full of vibrant plants and striking geometric displays.

These unusual paintings give thanks to the saints and deities who granted people favors and miracles.

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.

The castle was reconstructed to fit Kaiser Wilhelm II's romanticized vision of the Middle Ages.

An enormous goose sits atop this nest-shaped home.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

Colorful murals by Jean Cocteau hide within this peaceful London sanctuary.

The fire inside this temple has burned for more than 1,500 years.

Decorated by local artists, the city's utility boxes have become three-dimensional canvases.

An ancient impact crater on the outskirts of Pretoria.

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.

A sublime medieval path adorns the marble floor of one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in France.

On a remote island, legend has it that a fiddler and his wife were turned to stone.

One of the tallest statues in the world, and the tallest statue of a goddess in Japan.

Two Chinese dragons guard the caves of this medieval temple in Iran.

A collection of wonderfully preserved 19th-century creatures, as well as hunting trophies seized during a police raid.

This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.

The largest medieval water tank on the Iberian Peninsula is preserved beneath the Cáceres Museum.

Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.

Thanks to a bit of wordplay, seven auspicious stone cats guard this ancient canalside street.

Inside a busy metro station, an impressive mural depicts the prehispanic city of Tenochtitlán.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

These mysterious mazes carved on the rock may be up to 4,000 years old.