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A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

The remains of the last Bosnian fortress to fall to the Ottomans are still standing.

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This hotel is an amazing example of the Escuela Tapatía de Arquitectura movement.

In Coyoacán, a pair of coyotes crown a public fountain in reference to the ancient Aztec name of the borough.

These haunting ruins of a 700-year-old Prehispanic city have witnessed centuries of wars and massacres.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

The final resting place of the man whose name has become synonymous with greatness.

The apartment where Pippi Longstocking came to life.

It is said that each of the white stones in the red facade of this medieval house represents the head of a murdered Swedish noble.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

A rare surviving Victorian greenhouse designed specifically to house giant water lilies.

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

This 13th century Orthodox monastery is built right into the Moldovan cliffside.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

Elaborate mansions built by Roma residents in Soroca to show their success after centuries of discrimination.

This sign marks the entrance to a tiny proto-state within the small country of Moldova.

At less than four inches in height, this iconic fictional character is the smallest public statue in all of Moldova.

Seventy-five miles of limestone caves host more than a million bottles of wine beneath a sleepy Moldovan town.

The largest wine cellar in the world is a 150-mile network of underground caves near the capital of Moldova.