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A collection of historic buildings in central Birmingham blend seamlessly into the cityscape but have an interesting story to tell.

This eye-catching roundabout sculpture commemorates one of England's best World War II-era "shadow factories."

The ceiling of this shopping arcade is adorned with six trompe-l’œil artworks, including a grim funeral scene.

This magnificent castle grew from a small Moorish fortress, and reportedly inspired two iconic Disney castles.

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

The first post office in Toronto still operates today, complete with quill pens and ink for writing letters.

Cliffside houses provide a spectacular view from their perch above the valley.

Vibrant street art created with mixed media.

This house's itty bitty size means no humans allowed.

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

The oldest building in Madrid.

This modernist bridge highlights the bear as a symbol of Madrid.

An uninhabited village that preserves and documents rural architecture and an endangered way of life.

This species of wild goat stars in witchy legends and frolics among the park's eerie rock formations.

This 18th-century project to build the world's tallest gravity dam was never completed.

One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'

The home and birthplace of Caroline Dormon, a naturalist, artist, and the "mother of the Kisatchie National Forest."

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.

In this 400-year-old hotel in Madrid, you'll find a comb in every room, an old clock, and maybe a ghost.

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.

Meant to resemble a massive tree, the building is the best example of Spanish organicist architecture in Madrid.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.