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A 2000-year-old Roman amphitheater lies just below Guildhall Yard.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

This geodesic gallery holds a collection of painted spheres that make traditional canvases look lazy by comparison.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

This cascade of mineral-rich hot springs and waterfalls is an oasis in the Jordanian desert.

This ancient town is full of stunning Ottoman architecture and streets so narrow trash collection is done by donkey.

The remains of three different ancient civilizations have been found at this rich archaeological site.

Concentrated around the Dead Sea, these surprising canyons are filled with coursing water, fish, and even crabs.

A bathhouse from the second Islamic Caliphate decorated with frescoes of constellations, pleasure gardens, and naked ladies.

Billed as the "largest natural flower garden in the world" this Middle Eastern show field has little competition at 45 million flowers.

A faithful reproduction of Al-Jazari's enormous water clock.