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A statue of the second-tallest Dutchman in history.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

This confectioner serves one of the finest renditions of Antep baklava outside of Turkey.

The world’s oldest military museum has remained largely unchanged since the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Latvia’s first skyscraper, nicknamed ‘Stalin’s birthday cake.’

The memorial stands at the intersection of the rivers Morava and Danube.

This quaint mortuary chapel hides a stunning Celtic Revival and Art Nouveau interior.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

Sprawled across the Great Hall ceiling are various constellations and images relating to the zodiac.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

A beautiful little museum hidden away in the heart of Barcelona holds a treasure trove of Ancient Egyptian artifacts

An early 20th-century bullring converted into a modern shopping center.

This home designed for chocolate magnate Antoni Amatller is an exquisite treasure-box of Catalan Modernism.

Occupied for six centuries by Franciscan Order nuns, this monastery is an amazing ode to Catalán Gothic architecture.

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

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

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

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

This unassuming brick building contains the last purpose-built drill hall in the United Kingdom.

A living lighting fixture.

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.