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A cluster of granite granaries perched on stilts.

The control tower at the historic weapons range is now available as a highly unusual vacation rental.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

The medieval town's star-shaped walls are geometrically dazzling, though not entirely impenetrable.

The alleged birthplace of Lady Jane Grey, who was executed at age 16 for claiming the throne of England.

A mysterious crater-like pond has a spooky tendency to empty and fill with complete disregard to rainfall patterns.

This subterranean necropolis holds three floors of antler-dug grave caves.

An 11th-century mountaintop fortress that played a crucial role in Italy's papal wars is now a vacation rental.

This almost-forgotten underground dungeon housed several convicts over the years, including Caravaggio.

The only substantial part of Nazi Germany's formidable defensive line through Northern Italy that survives today, largely intact.

This Croatian computer club features such gaming relics as the infamous Virtual Boy and an 8-bit Pacman machine.

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

This 15th-century fortification was built to defend bunnies.

A blunder resulted in these charming stone-lined streams becoming the target of a Nazi bombing.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

The construction of a tram line unveiled hidden remnants of the old medieval city.

The ship built to ferry passengers and goods to the doomed Titanic is now the last remaining White Star Line vessel.

An imposing Omani fortress surrounded by date palm trees.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

This wondrous waterfall rushing down a green-covered mountain wasn't discovered until 2010.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.