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On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

Hidden behind musical flora and forgotten for over a thousand years, this cave is now a neon dream.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

The world's largest gathering of flatbed coupes can be found annually at this rural festival in New South Wales.

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

A 1,000-year-old church holds the bones of the Christian martyrs who died hiding inside it.

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

Strolling through these vintage locomotives offers a surprising amount of insight into the history of Kenya.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

A stretch of New Hampshire lake water is the only ice runway in the lower 48 states that is FAA-approved.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

This abandoned railroad tunnel is now home to a micro-colony of bats and a ghost train.

This former football stadium seems almost abandoned but is still in use by the next generation of Scottish sports stars.

This Belgian palace was long the domain of priests and aristocrats but is now being turned into an art commune.

This Seattle curio shop collects and sells haunted items in order to spread wonder one grim artifact at a time.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.