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This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

Walk through a restaurant's refrigerator door to reach this hidden bar.

This statue of a Hindu cosmic dancer at CERN is a metaphor for modern physics.

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

CERN's beautiful, bending sculpture is a tribute to the spread of knowledge.

A tiny rural community in Switzerland was home to one of history's most shocking murders, and led to the banning of Absinthe for nearly a century.

A historic fire call point.

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

The site where a plot to assassinate Hitler was planned—and its conspirators were executed—is now a powerful memorial to the German resistance during World War II.

Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

A restaurant and observation deck built in a unique broadcasting antenna.

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

The first modern cemetery of Lyon is complete with more than 200 chapels and monuments.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

On La Gomera, "Silbadors" communicate in a 4,000-word language of whistles.

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

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

These wondrously illuminated caverns extend under the mountains of the Fukushima Prefecture.

Bioluminescence in the reefs of the Maldives causes the sea to glow like a starry night sky.

This giant power line tower is a robot that can express its moods in neon.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Germany was originally used for victims of a cholera epidemic.