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A painting, bought for one dollar and carried to the church on a manure cart, is said to have instigated miracles and has certainly inspired the construction of an impressive basilica

This Victorian graveyard is now a wildlife haven in the centre of town

Within this ancient town, these canals provide a Venice-like ambiance, but outside the town they still play an important drainage role, and in WW2 they were used in an attempt at biological warfare

A constantly changing trove of screen-used costumes, props, and designer wardrobe from Hollywood sets

A popular supernatural horror film based in this quaint Maryland village made it a destination for paranormal pilgrimages, but unbeknownst to many, a real rise awaits on a lonely hill on the edge of town, steeped in local legend

A rare example of one of the world's first printed books

A rather unusual, if not whimsical, art installation that would make Alfred Hitchcock proud

You can take the metro between these two stations, or you can walk the underground bookstore-lined passageway that connects them

During a fire in 1831, this remarkable piece of Anglo-Saxon stonework used as a coffin lid was discovered beneath the Chapter House floor of Bristol Cathedral

Most visits to the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid ignore the eeriest part of the building, its crypt

The neighbors of this building, near Goya's former Madrid home, commissioned this famous painting as a tribute to the Spanish artist

An old girls school hidden in a wood

These ruins of a Gothic church hold the tomb of Princess Margaret, Lady of Galloway

The ruins of a once-mighty medieval palace are hidden away in otherwise modern London

What was once the world's second largest slate quarry is now a surreal post-industrial landscape

These giant cracks in the earth were created to extract a mineral found almost nowhere else on Earth

The largest ancient temple in all of Polynesia

A memorial garden at what was the home of Belgium's most notorious serial killer

From church to drug den nightclub to gym, few New York buildings have had as many diverse uses as this one

A maze of underground warehouses and cellars underneath one of Poland's most historic cities

Remains of an ancient village perched on top of a remote mesa

This plaque, dedicated to a fallen journeyman carpenter, is filled with errors and mystery

A petroglyph purportedly left by the first European to enter Arizona

An empty bookshelf commemorates the books which were lost during the infamous event