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A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Museum dedicated to the art of cutting and polishing stones.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

After sitting unused for decades, this abandoned communist infrastructure became a wildlife utopia.

This enchanting natural park is a magical example of a temperate rainforest in Europe.

The remains of an encyclopedic sculpture garden later used as an internment camp.

An uninhabited village that preserves and documents rural architecture and an endangered way of life.

This museum is known as the "Land of the Dinosaurs," but its full-scale dino models are just the start.

More than 70 detailed dioramas—including some rather nontraditional ones—fill this charming museum.

Strange masks and obscure costumes are housed in this old Madrid corrala.

A wonderful collection of fossilized dinosaurs and other creatures that roamed the landscape millions of years ago.

Remote, beautiful, and stigmatized, Las Hurdes is Spain's version of Appalachia.

During an annual Catholic feast in this tiny Spanish village, men dressed as devils leap over rows of babies to cleanse them of sin.

An unusual but excellent display created in the 1930s as propaganda against the Freemasons.

A unique exhibit lets blind people experience famous works of art and architecture with their hands.

Beautiful tiles decorate many of the town's surfaces and stand testimony to its glorious artistic history.

A breathtaking and biodiverse wilderness in the mountain setting of Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls."

A micro-communist utopia in Spain with no police, no mortgages and full employment.