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The most important and best preserved remnant of West Africa's powerful Songhai Empire.

Swirling layers of white and red rock earned these mountains their festive nickname.

The beautiful 16th-century stepwell lies in the shadow of a famous fortress.

The final resting place of more than 200,000 people, this is one of the largest cemeteries in Europe.

The city walls of Salé lead to the ruins of this seaside "bastion of tears."

Inside the Šomoška National Nature Reserve exists a unique rock formation rarely seen in the world.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

Drink among marionettes at this pub inside a historic puppet theater.

Known as the Sistine Chapel of Egypt, this tomb houses some of the most well-preserved paintings in Egypt.

The tiny, studious rodents greet visitors to the National Archives of Finland.

The U.K.'s first underground railway line is now a lively thoroughfare for runners and cyclists.

Squeezing inside this deep, narrow canyon reveals a festival of desert colors.

Once designed as a natural history museum, this building is now home to a massive art gallery.

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

A staircase made of gravestones leads up to this church built into a giant rock.

A historic holy well hidden near a charming English park.

Forlorn amidst a thicket mere feet from a cliff's edge stands a solitary headstone that appears completely out of place, a haunting symbol of a once-thriving town now lost to the relentless forces of nature.

Inside this museum, visitors venture through ghost stories entrenched in Icelandic folklore.

The ominously named cave is home to some remarkable ancient art.

Known as the Royal Palace of the Euganean Hills, this often overlooked castle has been home for multiple noble families over the centuries.

Rainbow-hued in the summer and crystalline in the winter, this salty lake has inspired battles, temples, and plenty of awe.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.