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This abandoned building, which is the second-largest structure on the Maltese island of Comino, has a complicated past.

On a tiny island in northwestern Norway, one of the country's few remaining original stave churches.

This Castilian castle has stood the test of time like few others.

This nondescript coffee shop conceals one of the wildest patisseries in New York City.

A beautiful bronze statue of the greatest fossil hunter of the 19th century.

A memorial for military police dogs in the former U.S. air base.

On moonless nights, it's said that you can still hear the church bell of a village that was swept out of the dunes and lost to the rising sea.

This institution has been serving up some of the best pancakes in the Netherlands for over a century.

A colorful mural decorates one of the city's oldest animal shelters.

One of the most important fortresses along the Danube now lies in ruins.

This restored 19th-century calender, a machine used in rubber manufacturing, commemorates the town's local industry.

Hundreds of tree trunks and Welwitschia flowers populate this living fossil haven.

Estimated to be more than 5,000 years old, this yew may be Britain’s oldest.

An open-air collection of historical stones with engravings and inscriptions in Old Goa.

This neolithic stone was once used for ceremonial practices similar to its neighbor Stonehenge.

A life-size replica of a Spitfire that sits in a quaint suburb.

This memorial park is also the original site of Queen Cleopatra’s Caesareum, whose pillars now stand in London and New York.

Tradition says that William the Conqueror dined on this stone after landing his Norman invasion fleet nearby.

This giant two-tier celebration cake serves as a befitting advert for the confectionery college it sits on top of.

Eat green onion ice cream and other allium-centric treats at this unusual museum.

This seaside property, an example of Art Deco Streamline Moderne style, was designed to embody the curves of a great ship.

This holy spring and its well have been the site of religious devotion for millennia.

Many mysteries surround these objects questioning whether they are cannonballs at all.

Somber memorial to the May 10, 1933, book-burning which took place on this spot.