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A flamboyant five-story building in Bulgaria resembles a crawling snail.

This eatery re-creates dishes from the Ottoman Empire so you can dine like a sultan.

Climb a set of vertiginous stone steps to the top of this impressive ancient edifice.

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

One of only three fountains created by the iconic architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

A museum and memorial built amid the rubble of a town obliterated by nature.

This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.

The largest dinosaurs in the world, kissing above the highway.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

The highest bridge in the world rises a dizzying 1,854 feet above the river.

An abandoned mine pit is now a beautiful, colorful attraction.

Extremely famous in his native country, this Cracovian painter is all but unknown beyond Polish borders.

In a sleepy village in Oxfordshire, the visionary English writer's gravesite attracts a yearly pilgrimage.

The only house built with a turret, crenellations, and a moat in Palmer, Alaska.

An obelisk marks the farmhouse where the founder of Mormonism was born.

The Chinese have long been excellent at the art of copying, but this epic replica takes the biscuit.

The "Bridge Over the Atlantic" lets you cross the waterway in mere seconds.

This stunning and ethereal mural symbolizes the beauty, unity, and diversity of humankind.

This Bangkok high-rise looks like a rudimentary LEGO elephant.

One of the largest wooden constructions in Europe was meant to be a casino, but soon became an orphanage.

This haunting sculpture was created as a statement on the mechanized warfare of the First World War.