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The Front of the Lemp Mansion, built in 1868. There have been three suicides in the walls of this house.

St. Louis, Missouri

Lemp Mansion

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

Hemet Maze Stone

Hemet, California

Hemet Maze Stone

This mysterious petroglyph evokes the ancient swastika symbol but was later vandalized with the more troublesome Nazi one.

Fraggle Rock.

Lordsburg, New Mexico

Fraggle Rock

The outcropping is graffitied with the name of the beloved musical Muppet television series.

The obelisk is seen at the bottom left. A model bomb is seen at the bottom right.

New Mexico

Trinity Atomic Bomb Site

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

Little Joe II rocket, the largest ever to be launched from New Mexico

Alamogordo, New Mexico

New Mexico Museum of Space History

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

World's Largest Pistachio

Alamogordo, New Mexico

PistachioLand: World's Largest Pistachio

This is one really big nut.

Caelum

Barcelona, Spain

Caelum

This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (Barcelona)

Barcelona, Spain

Sant Pau Recinte Modernista

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

Houses inside Park Güell designed by Gaudí

Barcelona, Spain

Park Güell

GaudĆ­'s famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

The facade of the church, still under construction.

Barcelona, Spain

Sagrada FamĆ­lia

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

La font.

Barcelona, Spain

Font de Sant Just

This fountain was designed to honor the man who helped bring water to Barcelona.

Plaque of Saint Joseph Oriol.

Barcelona, Spain

Saint Joseph Oriol Plaque

Saint Joseph was said to heal the deaf and blind, but it was a much smaller miracle that got him canonized.

Inquisition's Blazon

Barcelona, Spain

Inquisition's Blazon

On the wall of this medieval walkway, a symbol of the Spanish Inquisition.

Saints Justus and Pastor... or Castor and Pollux?

Barcelona, Spain

Basilica of Saints Justus and Pastor

Possibly the oldest church in Barcelona, this basilica has its pagan and Christian mythologies all mixed up.

Columns of the Temple of Augustus.

Barcelona, Spain

Columns of the Temple of Augustus

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

The statue.

Barcelona, Spain

'Dona i Ocell' ('Woman and Bird')

This colorful statue welcomes visitors to a Barcelona park.

Other logs lie in wait for purchase and an eventual fireplace beating

Barcelona, Spain

Tió de Nadal

Catalonia Tradition: Beating the hollow Christmas log until it defecates in your fireplace.

Mirador de Colom (Columbus Monument)

Barcelona, Spain

Mirador de Colom (Columbus Monument)

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

Dawn on Charles V palace in Alhambra, Granada, Spain.

Granada, Spain

Muslim Gravestones of the Alhambra

Spanish architects used seized Muslim gravestones to rebuild parts of the fortress.

Lookout from plaque, featuring Fiesta Island across the water to the left, where most of the race took place.

San Diego, California

Birthplace of Modern Triathlon

In September 1974, a small group of athletes completed the first modern triathlon event in San Diego's Mission Bay.

View from inside the cave

San Diego, California

Sunny Jim Cave Store

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

Memorial to the White Deer of Mission Hills

San Diego, California

Memorial to the White Deer of Mission Hills

A secluded hilltop monument marks the final resting place of Lucy, Presidio Park's beloved white deer.

Whaley House

San Diego, California

Whaley House

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

Lucha Libre Taco Shop

San Diego, California

Lucha Libre Taco Shop

Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.

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