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Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

This island castle now hosts a world-famous opera festival.

A 19th-century pharmacy converted into a bookstore.

A 20,000-year-old fossilized forest is preserved at this unique museum.

One of England’s oldest and most haunted inns may have inspired the legend of Sweeney Todd.

This sculpture is an homage to one of the most important Jewish women in medieval England.

Hidden in a Hollywood apartment, this restaurant takes diners on a gastronomic journey through West Africa.

Legends of adultery, love affairs, and charity swirl around this mysterious 17th-century Portuguese woman.

A storied London perfume shop that supplies scents for royalty has been operating out of this storefront for nearly 300 years.

Explore the flooded remains of a limestone mine in Kentucky.

Gladiators once walked this ancient, subterranean passage.

A mile-long trail of pottery culture, full of clay pipes and lucky cats, including one that’s 12.5 feet tall.

Royals, rebels, and artists have all conversed at this grand 19th-century Viennese coffee house.

The French leader's hat sits in a glass case at the oldest restaurant in Paris.

This supper club is a slice of old Las Vegas.

In the shadow of the Sydney Opera House, Indigenous ingredients shine.

Keen eyes can find the Disney influences throughout this treasure trove of a tiki bar.

This Georgian architectural masterpiece is the only cloth hall left in Britain.

This centuries-old mansion was the home of the noted 19th-century diarist Anne Lister (aka “Gentleman Jack”).

Hidden away in a back alley, this Art Nouveau cafe has been in business since 1882.

This dazzling wooden church was constructed as part of an elaborate peace project after the Thirty Years' War.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

The lost library of Alexandria, revived as a spearhead of cultural preservation.

An obscure walkway dedicated to a scientist who helped pave the way for the world to sit up and take notice of Manchester.