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This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

Built by the Ancient Greeks, this chariot bridge is still in use today.

This small bridge serves as a symbol of South America's independence.

With its webbed walls and bright red coloring, Calgary's iconic bridge looks like a finger trap puzzle stretched across the river.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

Pennsylvania's highest point is spotted with boulders which were pushed to the surface by nothing but cold.

Two Chinese dragons guard the caves of this medieval temple in Iran.

One of the tallest statues in the world, and the tallest statue of a goddess in Japan.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

See the rare bloom of the "Queen of the Night" cactus at one of the world's largest succulent collections.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

An enormous goose sits atop this nest-shaped home.

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

Senators used to relax in the nearly forgotten marble tubs now hidden in the U.S. Capitol Building's basement.

A promising candidate for the lost rock laid by George Washington was unearthed, but the hunt is still on.

A fantastic array of trays and cables once whisked books over to the Capitol at 600 feet per minute.

There just so happens to be a court even higher than the U.S Supreme Court: a basketball court in the building itself.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.