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A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

An English artist has turned an unassuming ex-council house into a time-lost house of mystery.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

This tiny island protects a number of rare bird species by only allowing visitors to set foot on the beach.

An 1870s ranch for pioneers, rodeo stars, and divorcees was abandoned and left for dead, until the city reopened it for exploration.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

This giant expressionist head crowns a museum devoted to a beloved Mexican leader.

This concept building is the UK's first attempt at making a permanent structure of nothing but trash.

This tiny town features a tiny town that acts as a 3D snapshot of the town during the 1950s.

The tiny Spanish village that long refused to change its outrageously anti-Semitic name.

The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.

One man single-handedly dug a road right through a mountain after his wife died due to its interference.

This devil-dancing ceremony now celebrates a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary that appeared to a modern-day Robin Hood in a mineshaft.

This museum was invented in a novel before being made real by the author.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

A retired military stronghold on the rolling green coast of Donegal.

A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

Peru's (not so) mysterious carved stones.

A hidden treasure of an abandoned city lies deep in the jungles of Campeche, Mexico.

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.