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Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.

This abandoned prison was so notorious that its name has become a metaphor throughout Albania.

Once a safe haven for locals engaged in blood feuds, this 400-year-old fortified tower is now a museum showing what life was like for those lying in wait within its walls.

The largest Roman amphitheater in the Balkans once held over 20,000 people, but managed to lay hidden for hundreds of years.

The elliptical citadel resisted the advance of the mighty Ottomans several times, thanks to the military prowess of the "Dragon of Albania."

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

For a moment, you could think there are two identical communication towers in a row, but one of them is made out of PVC.

This mysterious sign claims an American astronomer haunts the building—but is it true?

This museum details the history of a local miracle: The return of the critically endangered black-footed ferret, which was once believed to be extinct.

This medieval fortress guards a monastery near the border of Serbia and Montenegro.

This public toilet built in the famous Amsterdam School architectural style is a Dutch national monument.

Survival capsules find a second life as a unique hotel.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Between 1930 and 1946, a tobacco farmer laid his beloved horses and mules to rest in this small patch of pine forest.

Born from segregation and exclusion, Durham’s Black Wall Street is now a living reminder of the city’s past

The only Leonardo Da Vinci painting in the Western Hemisphere.

The hippo that stands on this university campus was once a drunken flea market purchase.

Surrounded by a verdant garden and a backdrop of ivy, a monument to beloved poet Khalil Gibran stands outside of the Lebanese embassy.

A street in front of NASA's D.C. headquarters has been named in honor of the Black women who were essential to early spaceflight.

The only tennis court that falls under the jurisdiction of the central bank.