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This 700-year-old structure is one of the most unique architectural and historic monuments in Gdańsk.

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

Huts like this were once a hub for the female divers who collected pearls and seafood off Japan's coasts.

This campus museum commemorates a national tragedy.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

The (usually) serene burial place of the world's most notorious drug lord.

A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

Near the former site of numerous witch burnings, this lavish Edinburgh mainstay pays homage to Scotland's brutal history.

A complicated, forgotten beacon of hope for thousands of immigrants, "Canada's Emerald Isle" lies in ruin.

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

A display of hand-built replicas of the legendary vessels used by Patagonian and Antarctic explorers.

A section of the long chain that blocked enemy ships from entering Constantinople.

The ruins of an ancient Roman tomb hidden in the basement of a trendy clothing store.

The site where hundreds of Greeks were tortured by the Nazi secret police is now a cosmetics store.

An exercise in radical design and social living that became the epicenter of Soviet spy networks in London.

Its collection details the experiences of the largest Japanese community outside Japan.

This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.

A mesmerizing sculpture marks the site where the activist was arrested after evading capture for 17 months.

Dozens of houses in the Adirondack Mountains are reminders of a literal "cottage industry" to cure people of a deadly disease.

A subterranean Holocaust refuge within one of the world's longest cave systems.