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Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

This basement museum explores the art and artistry of fascism.

This 1920s Amsterdam neighborhood was built as a giant experiment in concrete construction.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

This city square is home to Amsterdam's oldest church and a statue honoring Dutch sex workers.

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this Santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

This mountain's identity is stuck somewhere between a nightmare and a scenic tourist attraction.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

The tallest bronze seated statue of the Buddha in Japan.

This long unused shot tower on the Mississippi remains a point of pride for a small city in Iowa.

Founded in 670, this ancient mosque is an architectural time portal.

This massive and unusual rock formation near Okotoks is the world's largest known glacial erratic.

First flying reptile discovered in British Columbia was for years forgotten in a cabinet.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

A small granite block at this monument's base is the only part of Lincoln's Tomb outside of Illinois.

For a century, the tallest building in Tasmania was a tower built to manufacture ammunition.

Celebrating the end of winter, students gather every year at Lake Superior State University to torch a 12-foot-tall snowman.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

The massive cave church of Cairo's Zabbaleen community is one of the largest Christian churches in the Middle East.

The second-deepest known cave on Earth, hidden in an extremely remote mountain region.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.