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Overlooking beautiful Rhossili Bay are the remnants of a former World War II radar station.

Deep within the mountains, a towering natural wall of tightly packed basalt columns mimics a colossal ancient fortress built by no human hands.

Topped by a distinctive beehive dome, it’s been called by architectural historians and locals, “Brooklyn's Sacré-Cœur.”

This Brooklyn curiosity shop has its own magic theater and a singing mechanical bird that sparked an online feud with Kelly Clarkson.

Art installations, derelict railcars, and endangered grasshoppers all call this south Berlin park home.

This wildflower meadow was once the site of America's oldest operating paper mill and a symbol of Newark's manufacturing past.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

There might not be much left of these Irish ruins, but their linguistic legacy is still going strong.

The 20th-century chapel’s intricate woodwork includes amazing details, most notably angels playing bagpipes.

This Scottish graveyard is the final resting place of the man who inspired the character Ebenezer Scrooge.

This former church is believed to be one of the first Christian sites in Belfast Lough.

This 19th-century sanctuary was built atop a hill that once housed a Roman fort.