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Tens of thousands of Africans rescued from slave ships passed through this gate before being settled in Sierra Leone.

The former home of the famed revolutionary Pancho Villa is now a museum in his honor.

A piece of India inside a piece of Bangladesh inside a piece of India inside a piece of Bangladesh.

This tiny traditional smokehouse is the only one left in this historic fishing port.

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

A monument to the real explorer and bear who inspired characters in Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.'

These carved, weathered stones once gave mail carriers and pub goers a leg up.

The view that inspired the scenes of Dracula's first landing in England.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

The recreated ruins of a house designed to memorialize a World War I shelling on the town.

The much-beloved mascot of a local museum.

The curious and tiny collection contains some very odd objects.

Harry Potter’s Hogsmeade Station is also a charming blast from the past situated in North Yorkshire.

Legend says squeezing into this slender stone seat will make your wish come true.

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

This historic castle was already in ruins by the 13th century.

Almost nothing but earthworks remain of this long-lost castle.

The ruins of a 19th-century corn mill are haunted by a malevolent cave-dwelling spirit.

This college campus garden is home to generations of award winning flowers.

This truck is celebrated as part of the "miracle" that connected this town to the rest of Mexico.

This city's cultural center is in a restored Spanish colonial home from the 1800s.

A curiously placed cannon along a roundabout in Freetown marks the boundary of the old city.

An incredible little museum of interior design full of artifacts collected from around the world.

The building that houses this museum is as historic as its collection.