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This student-run nightclub was originally a World War II bomb shelter.

This 13th-century UNESCO-listed "lion's house" mosque is named after a repurposed lion sculpture.

This moving sculpture depicts contortionist positions based on photographs of gymnast Věra Čáslavská, who protested the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.

A tribute to an 18th-century British surveyor.

The home and studio of one of Japan's most avant-garde artists is now a museum showcasing his surreal works.

A prison-turned-museum sheds light on modern Turkish history.

Hidden tunnels have sheltered the people of a Czech town for centuries.

Under a breathtaking Buddhist temple in Vietnam is a basement exhibit that takes visitors to hell and back.

Commemorating Frankfurt's Jewish community and 11,908 victims of the Holocaust.

See an anatomy teaching collection assembled in the 1920s and 1930s.

This memorial cross along a roadside in Old Goa, India marks the spot of once bustling, but long-gone community.

Malta’s oldest sea water distillation building is now an architectural anomaly on the Sliema waterfront.

The oldest Egyptian obelisk still standing in its original site.

A small town that began as a western movie set.

A museum dedicated to the Georgia Peach, one of the greatest baseball players of all time.

A mysterious churchyard stone with a peculiar hole was once used to seal market transactions.

Fully ignoring any conventions of fine dining, chef Peter Vazquez turns out some of the best meals in the city in takeaway containers.

A neo-gothic statue modeled on German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II, which had its distinctive mustache shaved off by Nazis in World War II.

This tribute to the fictional detective stands at the famous literary character's address.

This historic, pentagon-shaped fort houses the City Museum.

Twenty-four works by the last great Mexican muralist tell the story of Tlaxcala.

An Ottoman-era mosque looking over the Black Sea.

An immersive exhibition that meditates on death and life.

Hidden deep in the Joshua Tree Wilderness, this 1940s miner's cabin built into a gap between two mega-sized boulders.