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Two stones just out of the ground.

Jökulsárgljúfur, Iceland

Karl og Kerling

Legend has it these two stones are petrified trolls.

Gljúfrabúi, Iceland

Hamragarðar, Iceland

Gljúfrabúi

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

International Vinegar Museum

Roslyn, South Dakota

International Vinegar Museum

A museum dedicated to all things vinegar in rural South Dakota.

Fortune's Smokehouse.

Whitby, England

Fortune's Smokehouse

This tiny traditional smokehouse is the only one left in this historic fishing port.

Portions of the Smokehouse Complex are now a museum.

Lubec, Maine

McCurdy Smokehouse

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

Salt Creek Falls from the viewing area in October

Cascade Summit, Oregon

Salt Creek Falls

The third tallest plunge fall in Oregon, worth visiting year-round.

Legacy buildings of the paper factory surround the mall's central court.

Mexico City, Mexico

Plaza Loreto

One of the world's richest men bought this former paper factory and transformed it into a mall.

The gorilla house from Benson's Wild Animal Farm

Hudson, New Hampshire

Benson's Park

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

Looking back from the stage toward the choir loft-cum-balcony

Millvale, Pennsylvania

Mr. Small's Funhouse

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

Detail of the time capsule boxes.

Madrid, Spain

Caja de las Letras

A vault of safe-deposit boxes in an old bank has been repurposed as a time capsule of Hispanic culture.

Rebirth looks good on you, hangar

Tallinn, Estonia

Seaplane Harbour

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

Looking across the Hudson River towards New Jersey, at night

New York, New York

The High Line

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The Church Brew Works

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Church Brew Works

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

The newly painted outside of the Brunel Museum.

London, England

Brunel Museum Grand Entrance Hall

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

The old gasification plant in Gas Works Park, Seattle

Seattle, Washington

Gas Works Park

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Climbing walls reaching to the high ceilings of the church.

Edinburgh, Scotland

Alien Rock

This repurposed church offers a more literal way to get closer to the heavens.

Ingmar Cronhammar's 2015 exhibition in the Cisternerne, "H."

Frederiksberg, Denmark

Cisternerne

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

Art in the Altaussee Salt Mine after WWII

Altaussee, Austria

Altaussee Salt Mines

During World War II, Austria's oldest salt mine was used to store thousands of pieces of stolen artwork.

The closed entrance to the mining cave.

Siegen, Germany

Hainer Stollen

The abandoned mine where American troops discovered a treasure trove of art and artifacts hidden by the Nazis.

Historischer Kunstbunker

Nuremberg, Germany

Historischer Kunstbunker

During World War II, the Nazis repurposed this beer cellar to store stolen artwork.

Torre del Ángel

Valencia, Spain

Ancient Walls of Valencia

Across Valencia lie the remains of three ancient fortifications built centuries apart: a Roman enclosure, an Islamic expansion, and a medieval Christian wall.

Longhorn Cavern

Burnet, Texas

Longhorn Cavern

An immense cave that has served as an outlaw's treasure trove, an underground dance hall, a nuclear fallout shelter, and much more.

Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes.

Guadalupe, California

Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Te Wairoa Buried Village

Lake Tarawera, New Zealand

Te Wairoa Buried Village

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

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