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This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

The unusual lighthouse looms over waves of prairies with no sea in sight.

One of the largest collections of traditional Māori artifacts in New Zealand.

This subterranean funicular is one of the world's smallest subways.

A 2,000-year-old wine press hidden in an overlooked park in Tel Aviv.

An Art Nouveau gem hides beneath the layers of city grime obscuring this once-magnificent building.

The weathered grave of a medieval anchoress who walled herself up in a cell attached to a church.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

The largest library in Latin America owes its existence to an Old World earthquake and a Napoleonic invasion.

This vineyard was the site of the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

This museum promotes informed contraception by documenting its often secret past.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

All unmarked mute swans on the Thames are owned by the Queen per a tradition that began in the 12th century.

A Brooklyn exhibit all about Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding in 1994.

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

This mesmerizing architectural wonder will take your breath away with its unusual color patterns.

The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.