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A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

This natural sea arch highlights Ireland's rugged coastal beauty.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

A collection of intricate sculptures so small they have to be seen through a microscope.

The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.

Neither bomb blasts nor heartbeats escape the giant ears of this super sci-fi Arctic outpost.

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

A small island with shimmering pink sands, home to loggerhead turtles and rare plants.

The Cycladic architecture makes this Athens neighborhood feel like an island paradise hidden in the shadow of the Acropolis.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.

Now overgrown, these anti-tank barriers from World War II are sometimes called "dragon's teeth."

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

A German town is growing a building out of trees.