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This excellent museum recreates the boom days of the herring rush in the "Atlantic Klondike."

Largest private bird collection in Iceland, formed from a tragic accident.

Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.

This hobbit-y little hot spring may be the oldest spring used by humans in all of Iceland.

This collection of unique liquids allows visitors to wander the waters of Iceland's glaciers.

A burial vault located under Tiber Island in the middle of the Italian capital.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

More sculpture than building, this architecturally significant temple was built on the spot of Saint Peter's crucifixion.

Brass cobblestones mark the places where individual Holocaust victims were taken from their homes.

Celebrate the history of the rich and truly misunderstood relationship between man and pigeon.

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.

The John Snow Memorial marks the epicenter of London's 1854 cholera epidemic.

This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.

Over the course of its history, this tiny island has held enslaved people in transit and served as a quarantine zone. Today, it's a giant tortoise sanctuary.

A remote island settlement off the coast of Tanzania is a storied archaeological site with an ancient past.

This sacred, circular cave is lined with pools so clear and still that it's hard to tell where the water begins.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

One incredible room in the Santa Barbara Courthouse is covered in wall-to-wall canvas murals.