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A medieval Italian village is fighting depopulation with this vibrant annual street art festival.

One of the U.K's earliest public water supplies is within the "plague village."

Local lore says two enemy dragons live within these breathtaking mountain lakes.

The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.

A tribute to Richard Feynman is carved into the land he planned to see but never got to visit.

A late-medieval Dutch castle with trick fountains in its whimsical water gardens.

Now abandoned, the world's first torpedo factory is crumbling into the sea.

An abandoned tower once used to study the cosmos hides within a thicket of greenery.

A stretch of land where the sour-sweet vegetable is cloaked in darkness and grows so fast you can hear it crack, squeak, and pop.

The first museum dedicated to exploring humanity's cultural relationship with the celestial world.

Though much of the castle was robbed of its stones, the underlying earthworks are among the best-preserved in England.

A strange rock with a sinister reputation lurks within the crimson waters of this Scottish glen.

This strange statue features a bust of the famous composer plopped atop a woman's body.

A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

An army of sleeping knights sculpted by a self-taught local artist beautifully depict an old Czech legend.

Shimmering sea-colored mosaics and Jesus statues cover this opulent building.

A curious carving hides on a marble column in the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba.

Albert Einstein's head sticks out of a snail shell stacked on a rocket in this truly bizarre monument to the scientist.

A statue of a boy looks up at where the famous rival to the Leaning Tower of Pisa once stood.

Centuries ago, red and white wine poured from the statue's breasts whenever a new Venetian ruler was elected.

Hundreds of unusual wheel crosses poke above the earth in this small Estonian cemetery.

Home to the world’s oldest seismograph and a four-ton steel ball that makes its own earthquakes.

A wooden statue of an Estonian pagan god and King of the Setos stands atop a sacred hill.