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This wooden recreation of a 9th century lake village looks as though it was built yesterday (which it relatively was).

One man's dream has turned into this naturally growing chapel made of almost nothing but trees.

Pull up and have a drink at a museum filled with hundreds of years' worth of shipwreck artifacts.

The site of a devastating modern-day mud volcano eruption that buried parts of a village.

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

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

A century after his death, this covered bridge still calls to mind the plein air painter who loved it.

After a nearly successful attempt on Hitler's life, the conspirators met their fate in the courtyard of this Berlin building.

This tiny museum kept in a B&B laundry room holds the death mask of notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.

This secret cemetery where no flag is allowed to fly holds the bodies of American soldiers convicted of heinous crimes during WWII.

The grandest stage for the world's foremost masters of invisible instruments.

To honor a beloved Austin radio DJ a neighborhood bridge has been covered in a loving mosaic.

The childhood home of Henry Jones Jr. is now an adventure-themed bed and breakfast.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

The highest monastery in the world operates a tiny guesthouse with doors open to all.

A grotto replicating one of the world's most famed Marian apparitions sits across the ocean from the original.

This Scottish burial tomb once held hundreds of ancient eagle bones.

This natural crater along the coast of Jersey may take its name from the devil statues who have watched over it.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

The haunting ruins of a military fortress turned astronomical observatory sit on a Sarajevo mountaintop.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.