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This working replica of the 'Friends' coffee shop is more accurate to the show than the set itself.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

The world's longest outdoor escalator takes visitors to the top of China's largest dam and is also shaped like a dragon.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.