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An imposing Omani fortress surrounded by date palm trees.

This spectacular mosque houses the second-largest chandelier in the world.

A sinkhole and now a swimming hole, too, full of dazzling turquoise water.

A 300-year-old cottage decorated with tens of thousands of seashells arranged in intricate patterns.

A historic hotel with many stories of haunted activity.

One of England’s oldest and most haunted inns may have inspired the legend of Sweeney Todd.

The eerie, tragic setting of one of Japan’s most popular ghost stories.

This prison on the Maltese island of Gozo is almost 500 years old, and they have the graffiti to prove it.

A small cave network was discovered under a home in Xagħra, in 1924 when the owner was digging a well.

This 19th-century aqueduct provides insights into how water was supplied to Victoria on the island of Gozo before modern plumbing.

Where the people of Gozo have been doing laundry for more than six centuries.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

When this former hospital pharmacy closed in 2013 it already looked like a museum, so they turned it into one.

Building owners can take out tiles for free at this repository for historic building materials.

The former home of a Portuguese poet, artist, and collector is packed to the brim with art.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

Dine on Hungarian-Jewish dishes at this multigenerational, family-run institution.

"Portugal's Stonehenge" is made up of nut-like stones aligned with the heavens.

This crumbling Portuguese ruin overlooks the populace it once ruled.

A neolithic tomb converted into a tiny chapel.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

At low tide, you can see the remains of a 17th-century ship just off a Stockholm island.