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This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

This ancient sword lay in a waterlogged tomb for 2,500 years, but managed to remain relatively untarnished and impressively sharp.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

This dazzlingly turquoise mountain lake was created in the wake of a natural disaster.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

Climb to the top of this spiritual tower, and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views.

This popular cave pool is truly magical, despite the crowds.

England's most famous front door has an accidental doppelganger.

A hidden plaque is the only reminder of the lost palace where two storied English kings were born.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

The vaulted ceiling is home to a scurry of “squirrelgoyles.”

The home of half the world's population of critically endangered mountain gorillas.

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

Mysterious heaps of stones dot these otherworldly woods.

A memorial to the United States's first wildlife refuge warden.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

A rare surviving Victorian greenhouse designed specifically to house giant water lilies.