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Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

Along the most northwestern point in Africa is an ancient cave surrounded by legends.

A fascinating assortment of cave dwellings, medieval ruins, and sarcophagi are being devoured by the forest.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

An abandoned amusement park hints at the twisted history of the Newfoundland Railway.

Haunting monument to the German Jewish philosopher who died while fleeing fascism.

This foreboding building was the headquarters of the terrifying Spanish Inquisition in Mexico.

This "City of Books" holds a museum, library, and the complete personal book collections of five of Mexico's greatest thinkers.

Tucked along a river are enigmatic stone carvings created thousands of years ago.

These haunting ruins of a 700-year-old Prehispanic city have witnessed centuries of wars and massacres.

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

Huge hole looks down onto an underground beach populated with sea lions.

The singular ruins of a mysterious lost city.

This ceremonial Mexican square looks as though it belongs in a science fiction movie.

Where layer cakes tower above one’s head and there is never a shortage of icing.

The enigmatic and seldom visited ruins of a Mayan city-state.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

A 500-year-old series of tunnels long believed to be folkloric was uncovered beneath the streets of Puebla.

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

The mysterious megaliths have enchanted and intrigued visitors for thousands of years.

Scotland's only funicular railway is also the United Kingdom's highest.