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On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

The world's largest rotating world.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.