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Giant money stones of Yap.

This 200-year-old cabin was the home of some of the first Wisconsin “badgers” and the site of the broken promises that led to their arrival.

A tiny 1857 chapel sits on top of a secluded, forested hill.

These rural ruins are of a Midwestern hotel that was once an elegant spa for the wealthy, then a gangster’s hideaway, and finally a haunted retreat.

A remnant of the last Ice Age, this lake is surrounded by fascinating rock formations.

Home to the world's largest refracting telescope and the birthplace of modern astrophysics.

George Martin's Caribbean recording studio now rots within the shadow of an active volcano.

After Christopher Columbus died, his son built a fancy house to rule from.

The first hospital in the New World.

These Bullet-scarred bunkers are haunting reminders of the Spanish Civil War.

A magnificent, long-abandoned castle built in the wake of the reconquest of Spain.

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

Crumbling necropolis set high above Fez.

Small church built in the 19th century for whites and slaves to worship together.

Remnants of successive wars and Muslim colonialism in the 11th century.

The shell of a medieval fortress offers commanding views of the area it once protected.

The world's oldest known salt mine.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

Bizarrely-painted church designed by a controversial artist.

During World War II, Austria's oldest salt mine was used to store thousands of pieces of stolen artwork.

This underground holding cell was forgotten for over a century and rediscovered in the 1960s.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

A bronze of the man in all his sinewy glory celebrates his longtime connection to the Ohio city.

This resort community was known as the "Black Eden of Michigan."