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This historic club for wayward boys has shaped some of the biggest names in music almost as much as they have shaped it.

Smack-dab in Campania’s volcanic fields, this scenic lake was once thought to be the gate of hell.

Now a museum, this building is one of the last surviving silk mills in Macclesfield.

These quaint stepping stones traverse the river that connects three of England’s most beautiful lakes.

This alluring underground library, hidden in a suburban Metro station, features a Space Age aesthetic and its own hydroponic garden.

This giant sculpture recalls a famous passage from “Alice in Wonderland.”

One of Ireland’s oldest family-run pubs, with a unique feature.

This tree, over 500 years old, was planted by Columbus’s son.

A Roman bridge closed to car traffic in the 1990s now open to foot traffic.

A marvel of engineering, this road ascends a Norwegian hill through six spirals inside of it.

An eerie ghost village hidden in the forests of the Eifel, frozen in a strange postwar limbo.

A ghostly and forgotten art deco bathhouse by the windy shore of Dunkirk, weathered but still standing.

These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

Tucked away on the edge of a forest, this tranquil oasis brings a piece of Japan to rural Brandenburg.

Georgia’s answer to Easter Island immortalizes the nation’s great poets, artists, and leaders in stone glory.

This intricately spiralling forest was created as a monumental work of art.

This viaduct looks more like something from a Victorian dream.

An air of mystery pervades this modern-day singing Stonehenge.

Peek through a transparent pyramid and drink in the mountain made of books.

This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.

This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.

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

A neighborhood with Art Deco architecture as eccentric as its history.