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When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

The last remaining building in Washington, D.C., built by H.H. Richardson, one of America's most iconic architects.

The only Civil War battle in Washington D.C. took place near this highest natural point in the city.

A small park honors the legendary Ukrainian poet.

Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.

32,000 tiny soldiers are posed in 23 historical settings.

This religious complex carved into a cliff is steeped in legends of miraculous stags and the Holy Grail.

A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.

This huge abandoned fortress hidden inside a mountain holds a world of subterranean secrets.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

The bizarre home and sculpture garden of an eccentric artist.

The largest underground church in Europe.

Ancient paintings known as the "Sistine Chapel of Cave Art."

See and taste one of the oldest and rarest collections of Armagnacs in the world.

A treasure trove of fine art is hiding inside this small medieval abbey in Gascony.

Disturbing winged beings decorate the walls of this strange abandoned hermitage.

An old wool-washing house filled with Fluxus contemporary art.

A Spanish artist builds his own castle.

Spain's stunning solar energy plant.

This amended headstone marks the grave of a participant in one of the most successful military deceptions of all time.

The cathedral of a controversial, conservative, schismatic sect that declared the Catholic Church heretical and founded its own succession of popes.

This remote location of this Moorish stronghold means it doesn’t attract many tourists—and that it still has the aura of fear and bravery of the 1300s.

Moorish signal station on a stratgic rocky outcrop.

A Spanish town built into the cliffs.