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Old Harry Rocks

Swanage, England

Old Harry Rocks

65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.

Bournemouth Natural Science Society

Bournemouth, England

Bournemouth Natural Science Society

Open for a weekend once a year around October it houses a fascinating collection of unique Victorian preserved and stuffed animals.

Fisherman's Walk Cliff Lift.

Bournemouth, England

Fisherman's Walk Cliff Lift

The world's shortest funicular ferries beachgoers a whopping 128 feet from clifftop to shore.

Stearns steeple

Amherst, Massachusetts

Stearns Steeple

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

Hitchcock's "stone book."

Amherst, Massachusetts

Hitchcock Ichnological Cabinet

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

Abandoned Fairy Village

Waterbury, Connecticut

Abandoned Fairy Village

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

Urdar's Well and Yggdrasil.

Uppsala, Sweden

Urdar's Well and Yggdrasil

Legend says this fabled well held part of a mythical Norse tree.

Gásadalur Village

Gasadalur Village, Faroe Islands

Gásadalur Village

This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .

The tunnels are not wide enough for two cars to pass each other.

Faroe Islands

Faroe Islands One-Lane Tunnels

The narrow passages will challenge even the bravest driver.

Abandoned Scar House Village

Harrogate, England

Abandoned Scar House Village

The remains of a remote village that once housed over 1,200 dam workers and their families.

The last coal-burning steam engine.

Trinidad, Colorado

Steam Engine 638

This small piece of railroad history sits behind the parking lot of a chain grocery store.

The site today.

Maricopa, California

Lakeview Gusher

Remnants of the United States's largest accidental oil spill still mar a California valley.

Bent's Fort plaza.

La Junta, Colorado

Bent's Old Fort

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

Vault room for the Camp Amache store.

Granada, Colorado

Amache National Historic Site

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.

Corporal Chas Ippel on the right, died on July 26, 1863.

Arlington, Virginia

Headstone-Eating Trees

The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.

Jinja War Cemetery.

Jinja, Uganda

Jinja War Cemetery

The final resting place of soldiers who fell during the First and Second World Wars.

Inside a vault.

New York, New York

Catacombs of Old St. Patrick's Cathedral

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

Kite aerial photograph of the Multivallate Ringfort at Rathrá, Co Roscommon, Ireland.

Tulsk, Ireland

Rathcroghan

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

The Atomium

Brussels, Belgium

The Atomium

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Mini-Europe

Brussels, Belgium

Mini-Europe

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

Laeken Cemetery Crypt in 2008.

Brussels, Belgium

Laeken Cemetery Crypt

This recently restored crypt was once plagued by liquefying coffins and exploding caskets.

The Stone Church.

Camuy, Puerto Rico

Iglesia Cristiana Avivamiento La Piedra (The Stone Church)

This memorial to a family's dead son has survived a century of hurricanes and earthquakes.

Wikipedia Monument.

Słubice, Poland

Wikipedia Monument

The first, and perhaps only, monument dedicated to Wikipedia.

The restored Charles Dickens statue.

Sydney, Australia

Charles Dickens Statue

This rare effigy of the author spent years lost in storage.

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