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An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

A Brutalist architectural gem hidden among Skopje’s neoclassical buildings.

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

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

Strange rock formations tower above the river that snakes through this enchanting Icelandic canyon.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

Get lost in the fantasy underworld of Thai serpents where wishes are granted

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

Strange sandstone canyon known as the "place broken by itself."

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

At certain times in the fall and winter, the sunlight makes this natural sandstone arch glow.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.