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This monumental fountain has moved around the city multiple times.

Next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a cemetery home to ancient sarcophagi and disturbing murals.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

A strange-looking 18th-century tower sits on a tiny islet just off Livorno.

A fortress on this island housed the mysterious prisoner known as the "Man in the Iron Mask" for more than a decade.

One of Antoni Gaudí's least-visited works, an homage to Catalan patrimony that mixes neo-Gothic with Modernista forms.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

One of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings, built between 1886 and 1890 for the industrialist Eusebi Güell.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Learn about the history and craftsmanship of carousels inside this museum located in a former post office.

An unassuming 13-acre park is home to over 12,000 roses.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.

A reservoir of vintage pinball machines and arcade games for the nostalgic and thrill seeking.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

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.

This indoor ski resort has a mountain contained inside a mall.

A unique configuration of blown glass can be found inside this hotel lobby.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

This artificial archipelago was supposed to resemble a map of the world.