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Pay homage to a preeminent matriarch, and the native Dena’ina people, at this sculpture installation in Anchorage.

See a full-scale whale skeleton and experience the captivating culture of Alaska’s Native people at this heritage center in east Anchorage.

The original location of the eponymous site of Japan’s Yayoi period is now lost in time.

A park where people have been going to feed friendly pigeons since the 18th century

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.

Beautiful and terrifying masks displayed in the island’s only mask library.

A mechanical clock built in 1914, with a rotation of 12 historical figures on its face.

A residential service road transformed into a menagerie of larger-than-life paintings of iconic Arctic wildlife.

A small museum dedicated to Vietnam’s lesser-known Iron Age culture.

A small section in the Bank of Korea Museum dedicated to the many varieties of the Joseon dynasty’s iconic coinage.

This retro café is a remnant of Japan’s post-war Argentine tango craze.

A bizarre statue of a Buddhist goddess made from 20,000 insects.

Hundreds of statues of Buddha’s disciples meditating, napping, sneezing, and picking their noses.

An underground world of gorgeous, palatial metro stations designed as a nuclear shelter complex.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

A grumpy old water goblin guarding an old mill on the Devil’s Stream in Prague.

This free museum is building a collection of books that are banned, censored or burnt around the world.

A colorful and enigmatic cemetery in the middle of nowhere.

An ancient temple in the middle of a residential neighborhood encapsulated by a beautiful tree.

In 1857, the Mardi Gras parade tradition began at this intersection.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

A highland eco-park celebrates more than a thousand varieties of tuber.