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The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

Pictures tacked onto trees remember the more than 40,000 of Stalin's victims buried here in mass graves.

A replica of the straw hut where Vladimir Lenin lived in hiding, disguised as a hay farmer, in 1917.

A station built to repel pirates now attracts wealthy vacationers.

This naval gun is fired every day at noon, an odd timekeeping tradition the origin of which is local legend.

A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.

The first recognized Neanderthal remains were found in this now-lost cave in 1856.

One of the smallest bookstores on the planet.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

The corpse bride of Portugal.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

One home in the historic strip hides secret compartments and the ghostly songs of long-gone canaries.

The old fire tower is one of the last of its kind in the United States.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

"Polynesia on the Plains."

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.