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A jagged silhouette of shamanistic stone heaps rises from the shore of this dazzling mile-high lake.

A series of recreated fortifications mark George Orwell's path through the Spanish Civil War.

The quirky - and private - constructions of a secluded artist depict the house of God.

A bronze of the man in all his sinewy glory celebrates his longtime connection to the Ohio city.

Thousands of letters to Santa get delivered to this mailbox in Greenland.

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

An old wool-washing house filled with Fluxus contemporary art.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.

Nuclear waste experts study this prehistoric crater lake to envision landscapes one million years in the future.

A museum dedicated to the history of psychiatric treatment featuring a gallery of art made by patients.

Under a church hides a forgotten 13th-century ossuary containing the remains of around 2,500 people.

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

Local lore says the devil built this beautiful medieval bridge to help a fleeing bandit.

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

The largest radio telescope in the world searches for extraterrestrial life from the remote limestone peaks of southern China.

A mysterious ancient network of thousands of perfectly straight lines stretching across miles of Bolivian desert.

An enormous playhouse designed to look like 21 stacked Lego bricks, with another 25 million colorful Legos inside.

A 1,500-year-old, 3-story subterranean city where ancient Persians took refuge in times of war.

Grotesque statues of figures from Buddhist hell haunt the temple's Sin Park.

One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'

A hidden tunnel leads to an abandoned slate quarry that's now a secret swimming spot guarded by cliffs.

Explore 400,000 years of humans' "battle against darkness" in this offbeat but thorough lamp museum.

An exact replica of a colossal Olmec head sits atop a pyramid within a Madrid traffic circle.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.