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This former burial ground, built atop discarded ballast from cargo ships, is now a public park.

This private mansion turned Catholic bishop’s home is an iconic Galveston building.

Despite changing times, the legendary stage has proved the show must always go on.

The second largest palm grove in Europe was planted during Moorish times and has been largely unchanged since then.

George Washington commissioned this centuries-old lighthouse off the coast of Maine.

Learn about the history and hopeful future of Maine’s nesting birds at this interactive Audubon facility.

An inverted staircase above the entrance to the Bethnal Green Underground Station functions as a memorial for people who lost their lives during the worst civilian disaster in the U.K. during World War II.

A stone hut overlooking a picturesque bay once hosted picnics for the wealthy Gribbel family.

One of the best preserved Tudor public buildings in Britain was once used for witch trials.

The only museum dedicated to the tile production for which the Rupel region was renowned.

Well-preserved, still-functional sliding wood doors from Ancient Rome can be found in this Vesuvius-stricken house.

This historic home and museum celebrates the life story of the female founder of the American Red Cross.

The most easterly point on mainland Australia offers dramatic ocean views.

Home to a garden of poisonous plants and the only legal cannabis and opium farms in Tokyo.

The oldest civic library in Italy can trace its foundation back to 1619.

The rocks exposed at Valley of Fire State Park also occur in a much less known but equally spectacular area a few miles to the southwest.

Named after and designed by women, this unique cultural center is an early 20th-century mansion covered in a modern shell.

The menus here are a love letter to the culinary history of New Orleans.

Opened in 1787, this old-world treasure is said to be the oldest restaurant in Copenhagen.

Hidden from the ground but visible from above, this arrow target in the New Forest is part of Hampshire's rich World War II history.

This 46-foot-tall carving of a legendary Māori navigator can only be visited by boat.

This Idaho state park boasts the tallest single-structured sand dune in North America.

Lines on the pillar of Heidelberg's Karl-Theodor Bridge record the dramatic heights of past floods.

This statue of one of the engineers who created the London Underground hides a ventilation shaft for the tube lines that run under the street.