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This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

Explore 400,000 years of humans' "battle against darkness" in this offbeat but thorough lamp museum.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

This mural painted by Keith Haring was done without payment as a gift to entertain the children at the Hôpital Necker.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.