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Mysterious and ancient carved standing stones.

This remote piece of Cape Breton coast was the unceremonious landing site of the first solo, east-west transatlantic flight made by a female aviator.

Inside India's oldest mosque, a lamp is said to have burnt for 1,000 years without going out.

350-foot-high emperor faces in China's Yellow River valley.

The intriguing artifact can be found in the former Australian prime minister's home.

Among fossils of creatures long since cast into oblivion, a once-single frog perseveres for his species.

A failed utopia, shut down by a more legitimate nation.

A tribute to a Hollywood icon far from Tinseltown.

All that remains of a magnate's dream home is a historic gate and an abandoned public pool.

Stelae-eyed stones greet visitors to a corner of Kirov Park.

An enormous roadside attraction in the heart of Spain's toy-making hub.

This fantastic sculpture of an early model helicopter celebrates the local toy industry.

The eerie burnt-out remains of a prominent building where 30 protestors lost their lives.

Pictures tacked onto trees remember the more than 40,000 of Stalin's victims buried here in mass graves.

In Little Caribbean, an ice-cream shop serves up regional flavors, including soursop, Irish moss, and "greatnut."

The frozen treats at this Cape Town parlor are inspired by Africa's food cultures.

World War II air raids over Bristol dislodged this fragment of tram line that ended up embedded in a churchyard.

A 15th-century whalebone is tucked away in an unassuming corner of this medieval church.

An array of ancient artifacts from Bronze Age Bristol and other civilizations are housed in this museum.

It houses a menagerie of wondrous taxidermy specimens from around the world, including the remains of a famous gorilla.

A miniature replica of the canine that became the logo for a large recording company.

A monument dedicated to the unrecognized Black "mother" of modern medicine.

A chunk of Skylab debris adorns this small museum at a roadside motel in Western Australia.

A tiny town's spinning, whirling propeller collection holds Australia's largest windmill.