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Gorge inside the Lost Canyon

Lake Delton, Wisconsin

Lost Canyon

This steep-walled ravine contains animal-shaped formations made from sandstone.

Ambalangoda Masks

Ambalangoda, Sri Lanka

Ariyapala Mask Factory and Museum

Beautiful and terrifying masks displayed in the island’s only mask library.

The Mark Twain House

Hartford, Connecticut

The Mark Twain House & Museum

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

New Haven, Connecticut

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

PEZ Visitor Center.

Orange, Connecticut

PEZ Visitor Center

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

The gallery of maps, showing the ceiling

Vatican City

Gallery of Maps - Galleria delle Carte Geografiche

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

The Lajos Tüköry memorial plaque.

Palermo, Italy

Lajos Tüköry Memorial Plaque

A plaque honoring a Hungarian hero of Italy is hidden in plain sight in Palermo.

Porta Nuova

Palermo, Italy

Porta Nuova

This triumphal 16th-century arched gateway leads to the oldest street in Palermo.

The Arabic inscription, which contains a verse from the Quran.

Palermo, Italy

Arabic Inscription of Palermo Cathedral

Why a column on the entrance is inscribed with a verse from the Quran is one of Sicily's many mysteries.

Lewes Town Clock

Lewes, Delaware

Lewes Town Clock

Designed to commemorate the founding of the first settlement in Delaware.

Bled Island

Bled, Slovenia

Bled Island and Castle

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

Zwaanendael Museum.

Lewes, Delaware

Zwaanendael Museum

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

The Cannonball House

Lewes, Delaware

The Cannonball House

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

Styrian Armoury

Graz, Austria

Styrian Armoury

The world's largest historic armory was established by independent citizens to defend themselves from the wars of larger forces.

Marionettes.

Salzburg, Austria

The World of Puppets Museum

A small marionette collection located within the dark cellars of an 11th-century Austrian castle.

Palmenhaus

Vienna, Austria

Palmenhaus

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

Wiener Pestsäule (Vienna Plague Column)

Vienna, Austria

Wiener Pestsäule (Vienna Plague Column)

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Globe Museum

Vienna, Austria

Globe Museum

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

Schmetterlinghaus: The Imperial Butterfly Park

Vienna, Austria

Schmetterlinghaus: The Imperial Butterfly Park

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

The library lobby.

Vienna, Austria

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library)

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The memorial placard reads: "Dedicated to the victims of Bloody Thursday, October 25th, 1956. —The Survivors."

Budapest, Hungary

Bullet Hole Markers at the Ministry of Agriculture Building

This easily overlooked memorial immortalizes the scars from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

Shoes on the Danube

Budapest, Hungary

Shoes on the Danube Promenade

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

Columbo Statue

Budapest, Hungary

Columbo Statue

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

Zero Kilometer Stone

Budapest, Hungary

Zero Kilometer Stone

The geographical center of Budapest is marked with a 10-foot-tall stylized zero.

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