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A 63-foot-tall swinging ball hypnotizes passersby, and proves to any remaining doubters that the Earth is spinning.

A massive wintry wall of snow up to 66 feet tall flanks a highway through Japan's mountains.

A colorful square marks the heart of the city's LGBTQ community.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Colorful concentric circles honor a small Croatian town's supposed spot at the nucleus of it all.

Impressive mining ruins overlook a spectacular view of Ireland's Copper Coast.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

Kenya’s oldest town is more than 700 years old and home to 6,000 donkeys.

Large, airy hallways hide within an impenetrable fortress that beckons urban explorers.

A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

Woven tree art gives this towering Australian woodland a touch of mystical whimsy.

A granite monument honors a beloved World War II canine mascot.

The roadway bend where highway painters practice their craft looks like expressionist art.

A fantastical and futuristic temple of light built from nine monumental glass veils.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

This gnarled old tree supposedly sprouted from seeds kept in the pocket of a 16th-century Spanish sailor.

One of the largest collections of socialist realist art shows the surprising depth of the official art of the Soviet Union.

This remote research station sits amid the second-largest ice sheet on the planet.

Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.

The 1,000-year-old abbey is the birthplace of modern musical notation.