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Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.

The world's tallest aluminum statue is also the world's tallest image of a winged Virgin Mary.

An image of the legendary saint stands in the shadow of a cathedral she liberated.

A founding document of the European Union was written on an island where Roman emperors once banished women.

This amazing 15th-century mural remained hidden in plain sight for centuries.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

A million and a half tons of earth were used to create one of the world's largest land sculptures.

You can see three Irish counties from this Neolithic hillside fort, once the seat of the Kingdom of Ailech.

A standing relief of a Norman knight whose posture marks him as a Crusader.

An abandoned bell tower in the middle of nowhere is the last testimony of a forgotten medieval village.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

A spectacular hidden beach in Ireland has the dark, disturbing nickname of "Murder Hole Beach."

The last resting place of the famous Native American princess is marked by a haunting monument.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

This giant bronze image of Christopher Columbus embarked on a voyage of its own.

An ancient chamber filled with wonderful rock art and a Neolithic carving of a human face.

This line of 12 tower mills described in the story of Don Quixote is among the most iconic landscapes in Spain.

These hellish-looking cliffs in the Canadian Arctic have been burning for centuries.

Along the most northwestern point in Africa is an ancient cave surrounded by legends.

Many famous English poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning are laid to rest at this Swiss-owned cemetery in Florence.

A snowy highland notorious for unexplained aircraft crashes is France's own Bermuda Triangle.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.