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Resting place and mausoleum of the founder and first president of Turkey.

A relic of the region's rich seaweed industry.

Artwork created by artists and school children as a tribute to free speech and democracy.

A buried bunker offers both a scenic view and a melancholy reminder of Duindorp’s wartime past.

This perfectly conical hill in the La Serena reservoir is humorously known as Europe's Largest Roundabout.

An abandoned construction pit in Munich that turned into an accidental urban lake.

A fragment of one of history’s most famous walls stands as a reminder of unity in a culturally divided city.

A mural honoring the women who built Singapore turned a quiet alley into a citywide debate.

A replica of the boarding house where many pioneering mangaka lived in the 1950s and ’60s.

A restored 1834 stone bank barn preserving the curious history of the natural ice trade.

From a distance it looks like a real castle, but up close everything is slightly too small.

Did a Halloween gathering at this site kick off Scotland’s witch trials?

5,000 years of East and Southeast Asian art in the heart of Bath.

The last surviving submarine from a strange chapter of Finnish history.

Kokera sushi may be the rarest sushi you have never heard of. 

Perhaps the biggest draw to this mosque is its remote location and lack of tourists.

A trove of history focused on Marks & Spencer, the British department store.

In 1907, writer Nikolaus Welter invented a fictitious Voodoo tradition around this statue of a reclining Christ — which has since become a reality.

Africa's own Christ the Redeemer looks over Angola's second largest city.

These stunning arched rock formations might be familiar to Windows 10 users.

In the middle of a wonderful recreational park, this memorial reminds us of the dark past of this place.

This controversial memorial to the Titanic's captain stands in a peculiar place.

See antique textile machines in operation, bringing industrial history vividly to life.

A 20-foot statue reminds viewers of an extinct species.