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A 19th-century British industrialist built this Louis XIII–inspired chateau for his homesick French wife.

The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.

In this quiet village, a blue plaque marks the spot where the famous fictional detective retired.

A tiny nondenominational church harkens back to the days of the first homesteaders in the region.

This ancient Visigothic church might hide an ancient treasure.

This dazzling Art Nouveau mansion is now home to the Modern Art Gallery Subotica.

This astronomical clock is the second oldest in England.

This building was once a town hall, a fire station, a prison, a dairy market, and the target for two marksmen.

This Chinese art gallery is hidden inside the Sunrider Corporation headquarters.

The ruins of this medieval castle on a foggy hill tell the story of a once-mighty empire.

The famous greeting card maker owns a collection of paintings by the famed surrealist.

Both funky and traditional, it's the oldest of its kind in Indiana.

This hidden 13th-century tavern room has a few Shakespearean connections.

Access to this hidden site of a 14th-century mass suicide is prohibited, unless it is to pray for the dead.

This Kathmandu museum, built in an Austrian modernist style, looks like a set from Star Wars.

A herd of plastic cows hangs out under this transmission tower in rural Georgia.

Narrow passes cut out of mountains surround the medieval capital of Japan.

The only place where can you share a seat with the bums of the Fab Four.

The city of Parma's cathedral is home to one of the greatest illusionistic frescoes of the Renaissance.

The building where Mary, Queen of Scots was said to have bathed in white wine.

This once-majestic, now-abandoned Victorian castle has seen better days.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

A schoolhouse and chapel are all that remains of this alpine village.

The current seat of the Parliament of Andalusia was once the epicenter of the Great Plague of Seville.