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A museum dedicated to one of Paris’s most famous residents, tucked into a corner of one of the city’s most famous squares.

The house that birthed The Old Man and The Sea is now a museum devoted to the old man who wrote it.

Pablo Neruda's custom-built lover's nest was made to remind him of the sea and named after his mistress' hair.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

A ghostly cabin attempts to reverse the erasure of enslaved people through poetry.

A curious stone in a public square commemorates the victims of witch-burning.

A memorial dedicated to the 29,000 Istrian freedom fighters of World War II.

An inverted staircase above the entrance to the Bethnal Green Underground Station functions as a memorial for people who lost their lives during the worst civilian disaster in the U.K. during World War II.

A memorial overlooking a busy roadway is linked with the story of a 17th-century noblewoman’s legal battle for her inheritance.

This market built by German prisoners of war is made of local stones.

This historic drug store-turned-museum served an important role in the Civil Rights Movement.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

A small gallery and shop dedicated to an ancient style of hand-printed textile.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

These 90-year-old murals of local kings, Vikings, and outlaws hide in plain sight in a beautifully baroque shopping arcade.

For the last eight decades, this curious shop has been ridding Atlanta of bad juju.

A rare surviving set of early 17th-century bronze finials remain on this bridge.

A small maritime town's own way of memorializing the local lives spent at sea.

The largest funeral ever held was for one of Tamil's most influential politicians.

One of the earliest Ataturk monuments commemorates the victory of the Turkish War of Independence.

Off a back road near Waterville Valley, one can find a castle turret built by an eccentric reverend over 100 years ago.

A memorial marking the original departure point for the two ships carrying the early English settlers to the New World.