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Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

The forgotten tomb of the Peruvian rubber baron who was the inspiration for Werner Herzog's epic film "Fitzcarraldo."

The best-preserved example of a unique structure in Nubian architecture.

This abandoned gold mine found a second life as a post-apocalyptic film set.

This haunting location was featured in the final scene of a classic spaghetti western.

The Pennsylvania shopping center was once the setting for the 1978 film, "Dawn of the Dead."

Ibi's pioneering toy factory now houses two small but mighty museums.

An ancient Egyptian temple sits within a modern European museum.

One of the world's largest pyramids stands within El Mirador, the "lost city of the Maya."

This splendid mosaic embodies ancient Rome's fascination with the exotic allure of Egypt.

The remote graves mark the mysterious deaths of four 19th century explorers.

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

A Zoroastrian funerary tower where excarnation rituals are carried out is threatened by the area's dwindling vulture population.

A massive base for the Nazis' most formidable weapon in the Atlantic.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

The largest hewn stone in history.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

Magnificent Roman ruins lie vulnerable to destruction on the edge of the Mediterranean.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

An underwater road considered a possible Atlantis location.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.