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Cool down and fill up after visiting Teotihuacán at this bar and restaurant in a deep, underground cave.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

The longest manmade tunnel in Queensland is now a beautiful trail, home to a special colony of bent-wing bats.

The former home of Dutch anthropologist Bert Flint now houses a collection of Berber art and artifacts.

Each winter this underground cave forms a dazzling ice palace.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

Native Australian lizards inhabit this garden celebrating Sydney and its sister city in China.

After being destroyed by two separate fires, this monastery is now home to a small zoo and relics from dozens of saints.

A neighborhood park in the city of Cáceres hides what some believe are revolutionary examples of Neanderthal cave art.

While comics are the main attraction at this megastore, the second floor plays host to an exhibit fit for a museum.

A classic red phone box converted into an informal village library.

This fresco-covered medieval monastery hangs from the side of a steep cliff.

The first modern cemetery of Lyon is complete with more than 200 chapels and monuments.

This centuries-old hotel hides a network of secret cellars and passages once used by smugglers.

Blue-green pools and smooth stones comprise one of Spain’s most idyllic hidden wonders.

This 7,000-year-old megalithic wonder covered by a Franco-era reservoir emerges in times of drought.

A small but charming botanical garden that contains many exotic plant species.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

The old church, buried by the 1784 Mount Vesuvius eruption, is a remarkably well-preserved place where people now pray for the souls of the dead.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

Inside this museum, visitors venture through ghost stories entrenched in Icelandic folklore.

Old vessels have been transformed into artistic canvases in this unusual cemetery.

Indigenous cultures believed all life would end if this enormous rock toppled.