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Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.

A bit of the Berlin Wall was gifted to the Icelandic capital to commemorate the 25th anniversary of German reunification.

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin’s lost medieval wall.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

A cemetery in Barcelona's Poblenou district is home to this touching funerary statue, which depicts death in the form of a winged skeleton.

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

A crumbling island fortress that seems to be covered in a field of stone crosses but is simply incomplete.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

The Grand Lodge of Ireland is one of the oldest in the world, full of fantastical, elaborately themed rooms.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

An eerie ship cemetery with gunfire as a soundtrack.

The ancient heart of Tunis is an enormous maze of narrow streets and alleyways.

A 15th-century granary that played the role of futuristic slave quarters in the world of 'Star Wars.'

The original film set of Luke Skywalker's Tatooine home from the 'Star Wars' trilogy.

An abandoned masterpiece of Soviet Brutalist architecture.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

The ceiling of this cavern is dripping with multicolored marble stalactites.

Two whaling vessels that were sunk by an anti-whaling organization in 1986 now sit on the shore of this beautiful fjord.

The world's first combination ski slope and power plant.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

A ghostly mansion in the middle of downtown Tunis.

A sinkhole and now a swimming hole, too, full of dazzling turquoise water.