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This community museum preserves the largest collection of Coal Age fossil plants in Maritimes.

A sacred well steeped in Pagan roots on the West Coast of Ireland.

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

A mythical garden that once grew the golden apples of wisdom is said to have existed in this ancient Moroccan city.

Eat fish and chips in a striking Neoclassical building that once hid a public lavatory.

An ancient system of freshwater caves filled with animal bones, including that of species long-extinct.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

The burial place of one the greatest Arthurian authors, with the sword in the (grave)stone.

In 1952, this restaurant began selling the Colonel's “secret” recipe.

Believed to be an execution site used by King Arthur after he was embarrassed.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

A former Canadian Pacific Railway station turned liquor store, the first and only station in Canada visited by British royalty.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

This giant boulder is sandwiched between apartment complexes in upper Manhattan.

The first version of this stalwart construction appeared around 3,000 years ago.

Dubbed the "smallest church in America," this tiny sanctuary was a local grocer's dream come true.

Standing atop 2nd-century Roman ruins, this church is one of the oldest and most iconic in Old Cairo.

Public clocks around the city chime with bullfights, cockfights, old railways, and other local traditions.

This isolated island is often capped by its own fluffy cloud.

Ten shipwreck-shaped chalets lie along the sand dunes on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

Flaming barrels of tar race through these village streets on Bonfire Night, a tradition that dates back centuries.