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London's amazing modernist public square that never was.

This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

The gargoyles and grotesques of the 21st century are here—22 emoji built into a new building in the Netherlands.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

A micro-communist utopia in Spain with no police, no mortgages and full employment.

Enormous terracotta heads of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip can be seen on the side of the road to Windsor.

Bronze plates placed around this Scottish fishing village form a true-scale model of the solar system.

A luxury hotel housed in a former 15th century Gothic church.

A statue of the original Pearly King is hidden in a church's crypt.

An enigmatic natural rock formation with a manmade passage cut through the center.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

This Victorian marvel of engineering and artistic prowess is nicknamed the "Cathedral of Steam."

A melting pot of Asian-Pacific art features one symbolic sculpture from each of 20 different nations.

The London statue that imitates passersby.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

This 2,700-year-old woman is the jewel of the Maidstone Museum's Egyptian collection.

The haunting complex honors the millions of Ukrainians who died in the forced famine under Soviet rule.

A true Valhalla for cactus and succulent lovers.

This oak sculpture at the edge of a small woodland is nine feet tall and shrouded in mystery.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

'The Letters of Utrecht' lays out a ribbon of poetry one letter at a time, with no final verse in sight.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.