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Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

A bridge that dates back to the 12th century is said to have made the devil very angry.

Cloistered comestibles are served with style at this French Orthodox monastery.

The second-largest natural arch in the Chartreuse Mountains.

The oldest continuously operating mint in the world that has been making coins since the 9th-century.

Unable to build support structures on glaciers, the engineers for this tramway were forced to design a unique system.

A quaint medieval harbour where Benjamin Franklin landed in 1776.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

A charming little museum founded by the designer of the Statue of Liberty.

A glamorous hotel that once accommodated French resistance fighters and concentration camp survivors.

This unusual piece of Renaissance art depicting the bodily horror of crucifixion and skin disease may have been inspired by fungus-induced hallucinations.

This little train station is forever immortalized in film history.

A functioning Roman-era aqueduct and bridge in rural southwest France.

Nearly every wall in this French villa has been "tattooed" by artist Jean Cocteau and other famous painters.

The birthplace of the builder of the Statue of Liberty is now a museum dedicated to his work.

The experimental test tracks of a retro-futuristic monorail still stand in the French countryside.

The beautiful bas-relief lines a sliver of a 19th-century walking path between two charming French villages.

One of the last realized projects of an influential, self-taught, French Modernist architect Jacques Couëlle.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

A French museum of wrought iron.

A medieval house adorned with enigmatic carvings, including one of a man displaying his masculine attributes.

The man who introduced reinforced concrete to the world demonstrated its genius by using it to build his own house.

At this monastery, monks make raw-milk cheese and use excess whey to create methane that powers their hot-water system.

One of the most powerful religious centers in the Middle Ages, dubbed the founder of Western monasticism.