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A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

These historic buildings once housed the headquarters of one of the most infamous gangs of New York.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.

This seemingly unremarkable boulder is said to bear the hoofprint of the devil himself.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.

This otherworldly French waterfall looks like its waters have turned to stone.

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

Taihape's claim to fame is a fictional Kiwi farmer wearing gumboots.

Taoism, Buddhist and Confucianism are all represented in this temple that claims to answer anyone's wishes.

The relics of one of Jesus' 12 apostles are enshrined in this Italian Basilica.

Not quite the cultural gateway between China and Sweden its designer imagined.

A gazebo that inspired the fifth episode of the "Twilight Zone" still stands in the creator's hometown

A narrow strip of land is home to the tallest migrating dunes in Europe.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

Since ancient times these picturesque springs have been providing bathers with healing waters.

The oldest house in Glasgow is now a museum dedicated to the city's medieval history.

This historic franken-chapel is the oldest wooden church in the world, at least part of it.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.