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The beautifully tiled, hidden resting place of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan’s wet nurse, tucked away behind a bustling railway track.

A beautiful memorial to the 215 passengers and 14 crew members who perished in a 1998 plane crash.

A seven-story circular concrete tower, once the heart of Ferrara’s Eridania distillery, resembles a modern industrial Colosseum.

Hundreds of preserved dinosaur footprints can be found along a hiking trail in this small village.

A 57-foot stained-glass dome from a Parisian tango house now crowns a wine bar in the San Bernardino Mountains.

This haunting monument honors the victims of 9/11.

This massive circular sculpture may not be a portal to other worlds, but it does inspire the mind to imagine them.

One architect's organic, human-centric design has been fully realized in this alien art house.

The haunting ruins of a once-holy church now stand as a forgotten relic of Montreal’s past.

This 19th-century stone bridge in Mayenne was renamed after an American soldier who died defusing explosives placed under it, saving it from destruction during the town’s liberation in August 1944.

This little patch of Europe remained neutral for more than a century because of a mine.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

It stands out for its elegant white neoclassical design and twin bell towers that define Maputo’s skyline and make it one of the city’s most recognizable landmarks.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

India’s largest inland salt lake, whose blinding white salt flats create one of the most surreal landscapes in the Thar Desert.

The world’s highest ski resort was deserted after an 18,000-year-old glacier melted away.

A dead saint, a deadly poison, and a mysterious holy ooze.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

Hidden in the jungle is a botanical ‘Barbapa dream’ art center in the Yucatan rainforest.

An abandoned colonial French prison notorious for its hellish conditions.

Folklore says this medieval fortress was plopped atop a portal to hell to trap the demons below.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.