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This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

A small marionette collection located within the dark cellars of an 11th-century Austrian castle.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

An Iron Age fort on the edge of a seaside cliff offers a glimpse into an ancient, mystical world.

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

When a medieval fire claimed the original St. Stephen’s Cathedral, it sparked a pattern of unquenchable organ building.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

The southernmost point in the United States is a beautiful place to look at but a deadly place to wade in.

Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The world's tallest church tower reveals a spectacular view to anyone up to the task of climbing the daunting staircase.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.