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This lake in northwest Iran has started turning from green to red more frequently than scientists are comfortable with.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

The world's oldest Jewish library was founded by Sephardic Jews in 17th century Amsterdam.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

A hotel in Taiwan based on the better business practices that can be gleaned from Jewish law.

This ancient tomb in the West Bank is a holy site for Jews, Muslims, and Christians alike.

This "Little Finland" started as a Finnish utopian society in Eastern Brazil.

A perfectly circular lake is formed by the crater of an ancient underwater volcano.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

This abandoned palace and the stupas around it conceal beautiful Buddhist frescoes, statues, and silk paintings.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

The largest Chinese cemetery in the world outside of China dates back to the 15th century.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

This tiny, charming synagogue in the Cayman Islands was built by a man as a present for his Jewish wife.

One of the world’s most colorful cemeteries, where each pigment is symbolic.

This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

A micro-communist utopia in Spain with no police, no mortgages and full employment.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.