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The stunning shape and color of this cliff gives it the appearance of a waterfall

San Pablo Villa de Mitla, Mexico

Hierve El Agua

This beautifully deceptive waterfall is something far different from what it appears to be.

God's Acre Healing Springs

Blackville, South Carolina

God's Acre Healing Springs

This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.

View of the "Castle of Light" from across the Daugava.

Riga, Latvia

Castle of Light

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

Atlanta Glass Treehouse

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta Glass Treehouse

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

Tatacoa Desert

Villavieja, Colombia

Tatacoa Desert

Unparalleled stargazing, one of Colombia's best observatories, and a swimming pool can all be found in the middle of this ancient tropical forest.

Andromeda galaxy over Radkan Tower.

Iran

Radkan Tower

A sophisticated astronomical tower built by one of the greatest Persian scholars of the Islamic Golden Age.

Court Barn from Lee-on-Solent.

Chichester, England

Weald and Downland Living Museum

This open-air heritage museum illuminates centuries of historic English life from a West Sussex village.

Iceland's youngest turf church.

Iceland

Hofskirkja

This fairytale-like structure is the last turf church ever constructed in Iceland.

The pools at Leça da Palmeira.

Leça da Palmeira, Portugal

Tidal Pools of Leça da Palmeira

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

Front entrance to the Whale House.

Santa Barbara, California

Whale House

This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.

The Wonder House in 2014.

Bartow, Florida

Wonder House

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

Barter Books.

Alnwick, England

Barter Books

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

Boat houses.

Équihen-Plage, France

Inverted Boat Houses

These rustic holiday homes are made from discarded fishing boat hulls.

The Trojan Horse Suite.

Heyd, Belgium

La Balade des Gnomes

A fantastical bed and breakfast with magically unique rooms.

The High Bridge and Glory Hole.

Lincoln, England

High Bridge

The oldest of the three remaining bridges in England with buildings on top of them.

A sunny moment over Piadao.

Piódão, Portugal

Piódão

Nestled in the mountains of Portugal is a tiny village made almost entirely of schist.

Nebraska Bridge.

Tionesta, Pennsylvania

Nebraska Bridge

For decades, it has disappeared and reappeared as water levels rise and fall.

Coade Stone Columns.

Edinburgh, Scotland

Coade Stone Columns

It's a mystery how these curious columns wound up in an Edinburgh suburb.

Exterior of Castle, with cemetery .

Greenback, Tennessee

Fortress of Faith (Greenback Castle)

One man has spent decades faithfully constructing this unique brick and cinderblock castle.

The Hermit House.

Herzliya, Israel

The Hermit House

This marvelous work of outsider architecture is built into the cliffs of an Israeli beach.

Reality Checkpoint

Cambridge, England

Reality Checkpoint

An ordinary lamppost situated in the middle of Cambridge has an unusual moniker and history.

The ferryman statue
Permanently Closed

Wicklow, Ireland

Victor’s Way Indian Sculpture Park

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

Pythagoras' cave.

Samos Prefecture, Greece

Pythagoras Cave

Cave on extinct volcano, once home to famous mathematician Pythagoras.

‘El Gigante’ and the Moai of Rapa Nui

Rapa Nui, Chile

‘El Gigante’ and the Moai of Rapa Nui

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

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