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The last bastion of Roman presence north of the Alps looms over a German town.

On the second floor of a small town library is an homage to angling and memorial to a great local fisherman.

This landmark of the Chicago silent film industry may not be in the picture business anymore but it still stands proudly.

The world's tallest doric column is this Ohio monument to a naval victory in the War of 1812.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

The Church of the Annunciation was carved into the face of a cliff, just like the rest of the town of Haute-Isle.

Local legend has it that the first humans were created in the pools here, leaving their footprints behind in the rock.

Medieval ruins on a tiny island amid a flooded lake offer romantic respite to lovers seeking privacy.

Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.

These ominous lava formations were said to be an entrance to the netherworld so of course they inspired a famous metal band.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

This Danish park has celebrated the American independence day since 1912.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

This hobbit-y little hot spring may be the oldest spring used by humans in all of Iceland.

This surreal art house looks like a geometric version of a small chapel.

"Portugal's Stonehenge" is made up of nut-like stones aligned with the heavens.

A mega theme park-wax museum mélange containing all things biblical.

This precariously balanced boulder is said to be a hunk of stolen butter dropped by the gods.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.