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Inside this art and oddity-filled shop, a small room filled with secrets.

Only five people are buried in this tiny cemetery in Wilsons Promontory National Park.

After a catastrophic forest fire, a Greek artist transformed scorched tree trunks outside an old sanatorium into this haunting sculpture garden.

The sole surviving medieval street cross in Scarborough.

A statue of the heroine who stopped time to save her betrothed.

A collection of birches from across Sweden.

The only example of a Paris Métro sign in use at a subway station outside of the French capital. 

Britain's oldest permanent theatre designed and built for puppets.

A temple dedicated to the 13th-century Alevi Turkish dervish credited with bringing Islam to the Balkans.

The exhibition explores the Icelandic city's Viking Age history.

A museum run by retired highway engineers who helped rebuild after the Great Hanshin Earthquake.

This stone figurine was made more than 6,000 years ago and depicts a female deity of the Neolithic Vinča culture.

A semi-retired nurse’s record-setting collection of 3,000 tiny chairs.

The largest Jewish museum in the southeastern U.S. houses a permanent Holocaust exhibit emphasizing the strength of its survivors.

Beside the pew where C.S. Lewis often sat while attending church, a window filled with characters from his beloved stories.

This effigy was crafted to annoy a neighbor after a civil dispute over a foul smell.

Controversy surrounded the creation of this anti-fascist statue.

Once one of the largest sites of silver deposits in Italy.

Previously a hot spring, this park remains a site of unique history, wildlife, and geology.

A masterpiece of Art Deco architecture hidden in plain sight in West London.

A monument dedicated to the civil uprisings that took place during the Pots and Pans Revolution.

The lasting remains of a bygone era of open-air meat markets.

Britain's oldest miniature railway.

John Tyler never got to be buried at his beloved home, but every pet his family owned since has been.