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The oldest continual pilgrimage site in Britain was supposedly created by a gruesome beheading.

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

This natural sea cave hides a small wonderland of natural turquoise beauty.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

Monks turned this mountain into a temple by digging grottoes, tunnels, and a huge pagoda-like hall.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

A lush desert oasis in the shape of a narrow crescent.

Ming Dynasty necropolis raided during the Cultural Revolution.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

Money made from smuggling sugar helped create this wondrous rock maze in honor of the Prussian Queen Louise.

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

This ancient mountain monastery welcomes all manner of faith in an effort to keep Christians in Syria.

This ornate mosque is said to hold the remains of Muhammad's granddaughter beneath its dome of pure gold.

The Syrian headquarters of alleged hashish-smoking assassins.

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.

Mysterious lost empire of the Silk Road.

German and American troops joined forces to defend this fortress during the strangest battle of World War II.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

This narrow path was cut right into a French mountainside to feed the country's early naval expansion.