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This seaside Italian village doesn't just look Escher-esque, it actually inspired the mind-bending artist.

It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

A gorgeous, Gaudí-esque stairway constructed in the city of Istanbul by a prominent Jewish family.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

The first military air station in all of Ireland hosted "battlebags."

Veryovkina Cave is more than 1.3 miles deep—the deepest known in the world.

Australia's only active volcanoes and highest peak are located on these remote islands thousands of miles away from the mainland.

An abandoned jewel of a ballroom on the top floor of Australia’s busiest rail station echoes with the sounds of a bygone era.

One of the best beaches in the entire world.

The word 'wunderkammer' translates as 'wonder-chamber'. This Wunderkammer is both a museum and a retail store.

Prehistoric park filled with the fossils of dozens of extinct species including Australian megafauna.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

An intact, still operating pharmacy from the 18th-century filled with numerous artifacts and paintings.

The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.

A masterpiece of modern architecture that caused quite a stir in Paris, recreated in Bologna half a century later.

Every Easter, a small Sicilian town builds a stunning cathedral out of bread.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.