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This forgotten chalk mine was reopened thanks to a massive effort from the local community.

Europe's "only museum dedicated to the decapod" is full of quirky and absurdist displays, including one featuring the "famous" Giant Crab of Margate.

Overlooking the seaside town of Margate stands a tribute to an artist's lover.

The story behind this uniquely-shaped tower involves ancient empires, local legends, and new words.

This building from the Middle Ages was dedicated to the patron saint of Norway.

Some of Britain's best-preserved Roman walls, above the Waveney marshes

On May 2, 1845, crowds gathered to watch a clown and four geese sail upstream in a bathtub. Then disaster struck.

These grandstands are among the oldest continuously used stands in the world.

This freewheeling amusement ride is the last of its kind.

These terracotta heads are among the oldest Iron Age objects found south of the equator.

Europe's largest prehistoric mound – burial site of a legendary king?

Two standing stones are all that remains of a prehistoric installation.

The final resting place of a once-unsung hero of paleontology.

A beautiful bronze statue of the greatest fossil hunter of the 19th century.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

A 160-year-old tower built in honor of a scholar who was burned at the stake for translating the Bible.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

A monument to the Turkish librarian who delivered books on the back of a donkey.

The deepest underground city in Turkey was designed to protect 20,000 people behind massive stone doors.

While not Turkey's deepest underground city, this subterranean redoubt is the largest.

This giant work of Cappadocian pottery includes a memorial for the artisan who created it.

Live a night as a Byzantine King, with a minibar and private jacuzzi.

An odd little fishing town that is inundated by tourists looking to be locked up in a cage and surrounded by great white sharks, because why not?

From atop a hill at the center of Cape Town, a cannon has been signalling the time since 1806.