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An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

Also known as the Square Colosseum, this building is a prime example of fascist-era rationalist architecture.

This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.

This Arabesque Italian castle was built with a primitive, if ingenious, air-conditioning system.

Haunting graffiti left by prisoners of the Spanish Inquisition.

Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

The colorful stairs are made with marble from the world's major quarries.

A succession of eerily contemplative iron figures lead from a Scottish museum to the sea.

A stunning Victorian abbey and walled garden on a lakefront.

The world's tallest box hedge is found in a delightful garden.

An 1814 castle that hosts an exhibit of "explorabilia".

An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

Some of the saint's blood and bones are said to reside in Dublin.

The mummified heart of a saint lives on in this church—after a brief hiatus when it was stolen.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

A castle in the Scottish Highlands has been continuously inhabited since the 1300s.

A striking 500-year-old mansion provides an unexpectedly sublime home for live deer and a menagerie of exotic stuffed animals.

Built in the 1300s, this magnificent building that hosted England's kings and queens transports you to the Middle Ages.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.