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Pagan monument converted to Christianity with the population.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

The corpse bride of Portugal.

This small chapel is built of human bones and decorated with a golden skeleton.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.

This striking icon of the disputed Republic of Artsakh caused a stir at a Eurovision Song Contest.

6000-year-old coal fire moves one meter per year.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

A shrine of fire worship built on top of a natural flame.

Mysterious hillside with a continuously burning natural fire.

An abandoned underground bathroom is now a space for public art.

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

Volcanic rocks ground down into sand make this Spanish beach as black as night.