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Toilet hot pot. Appetizing!

Taipei, Taiwan

Modern Toilet Restaurant

Looking for a crappy restaurant? Pull up a porcelain bowl and enjoy your meal.

Chunking Mansions malls.

Hong Kong

Chungking Mansions

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

Shelley Street and Elgin Street intersection

Hong Kong

Central-Mid-Levels Escalators

The world's longest outdoor covered escalator system transports commuters through Hong Kong's hilly terrain.

El Deir ("The Monastery"), Petra.

Petra District, Jordan

Petra

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

The Oval Forum in Jerash, and the Cardo Maximus

Jerash, Jordan

The Ruins of Jerash

Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city.

Hundred Year Stone

Keswick, England

Hundred Year Stone

This unusual sculpture is sometimes partially, sometimes fully, submerged.

Derwent Pencil Museum

Keswick, England

Derwent Pencil Museum

A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.

The exterior of the facility.

Bowmore, Scotland

MacTaggart Leisure Centre

If you can’t dive into a whisky cask, this swimming pool might be the next best thing. 

Bowmore Round Church

Bowmore, Scotland

Bowmore Round Church

This remote Scottish island has the only round church in the nation.

Museum of Islay Life

Port Charlotte, Scotland

Museum Of Islay Life

A former church that has been chronicling the Scottish island of Islay's rich history since the 70s.

Coastal path leading to lighthouse.

Isle of Islay, Scotland

Carraig Fhada Lighthouse

An unusually shaped lighthouse with origins rooted in heartbreak.

Kildalton Cross.

Isle of Islay, Scotland

Kildalton Cross

This 1,300-year-old marker is one of the finest and most complete early Christian crosses in Scotland.

"Land" by Antony Gormley.

Saddell, Scotland

'Land'

Originally intended as a temporary installation, this sculpture is now a permanent part of a stunning Scottish beach.

Carved grave slabs.

Saddell, Scotland

Saddell Abbey Grave Slabs

The carved medieval stones stand near the ruined abbey's parking lot.

The cave painting.

Campbeltown, Scotland

Davaar Island Cave Painting

The artwork is tucked within a cave on a tiny Scottish island only accessible at low tide.

The Shipbuilders of Port Glasgow

Port Glasgow, Scotland

Shipbuilders of Port Glasgow

A sculpture dedicated to this town’s rich shipbuilding heritage.

Al Mubarakiah, a Kuwaiti ship built at Fairfield.

Glasgow, Scotland

Fairfield Heritage

A community museum celebrates Glasgow's mighty shipbuilding days.

PS Waverley in front of the Needles on the Isle of Wight

Glasgow, Scotland

Paddle Steamer Waverley

This vessel is the final ocean-going paddle steamer in the world.

The escarpment (right).

Saudi Arabia

The Edge of the World

These towering cliffs jut dramatically from the middle of a barren desert.

(Flickr/Román Emin)

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

Ski Dubai

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Ski Dubai

This indoor ski resort has a mountain contained inside a mall.

Burj Al Arab from the air

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Burj Al Arab

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

Museum of the Future Building

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Museum of the Future

This futuristic building is yet another architectural wonder in Dubai.

Dubai Frame.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The Dubai Frame

The world's largest frame offers spectacular views of the city's past and present.

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