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Home to one of the tallest church spires in Europe, this historic church once played host to King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

Experience what life was like in Ireland during the Viking and medieval ages.

Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

Dakar is home to one of the oldest African art institutions in West Africa.

William Blake claimed to have painted this gothic masterpiece after encountering this nightmarish being in a vision.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

The best preserved Paleochristian basilica in Rome hides a number of oddities and secrets.

These 1,500-year-old remains were found in a mysterious Anglo-Saxon mass grave.

Grab a cuppa at England's first and only domestic tea plantation.

Ancient barriers wrap around what was once an important stop along the Silk Road.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

An unusual monument to a gentle giant who became a Kyrgyz hero.

This mysterious complex of abandoned yurts and fading murals was meant to be a center of science and spirituality in Kyrgyzstan.

A building facade covered with the statues of 11 giants of Tajik literature.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

One of the largest and oldest caravansaries in Persia.

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.

In an isolated field near a dilapidated barn stands this chilling portrayal of the plight of the Nuba peoples of Sudan.

Because sometimes you need to make a batch of frites even when the stores are all closed.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

The smallest restaurant in the world.