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One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

An engraved stone in a village church claims to be the grave of a minuscule folk legend.

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

This remote castle was built to be a wealthy businessman's palace of vice but is now simply a historic vacation cottage.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Machu Picchu, then you’ve seen a picture of Huayna Picchu—you just didn’t realize it.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

Besieged by war, this castle ruin has crumbled into a peaceful picnic spot.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

This historic stone bridge has an entire neighborhood clinging to its sides.