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Visitors to this temple are greeted by a massive collection of wooden dolls said to bring good fortune.

According to legend, this hacienda was abandoned because of a curse.

With a crest near 10,000 feet, this treeless fault-block mountain in eastern Oregon provides stunning views and spectacular glacial landforms.

Hundreds of years ago, this lion-shaped door knocker could help a person accused of a crime find temporary safe haven in Durham Cathedral.

Have a soak at this retro bathhouse, where you will find Japan's first electric bath, tiling from Spain, and wood carvings representing the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

One of only a handful of seaside temples in Korea, this sacred space is home to a legendary healing Buddha statue and a traffic safety prayer pagoda.

A 150-square-foot masterpiece of American landscape art is the crown jewel of this library and art gallery in Vermont.

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

Ruins of an old sugar mill sitting quietly next to a park in rural Florida.

Explore 4,000 years of European and American art history in the heart of northwest Louisiana.

On the grounds of a former estate in Burgundy stands an elaborate temple that is modeled after the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery.

A heavily politicized roundabout discussing the state of a heavily politicized country.

High in the Italian Alps, a lonely chapel with a striking view of the Matterhorn.

Europe's first floating restaurant is home to a hilarious legend.

Cloistered comestibles are served with style at this French Orthodox monastery.

Disused for decades, this freight railway bridge is finally being renovated into a scenic promenade.

The steepest tramway in North America provides stunning views of the out-of-the-way Wallowa Mountains in northeastern Oregon.

Visitors to this Belgium graveyard are greeted by the grieving stone parents of the young men lost to war.

The former home of a trailblazing surrealist is still filled with haunting dolls and grim paintings.

Rediscovered in 1992, this abandoned medieval village once flourished by fishing and piracy.

In a quiet hamlet above Penistone, these village stocks are still standing.

A stone wall commemorates the legend of a ferocious dragon who literally got his butt kicked by a knight.

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

A fire lookout atop a glacial pinnacle is reached by climbing three vertiginous flights of stairs.