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Many rock climbers have come to conquer this slender sea stack, with various degrees of success.

A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.

A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

Archeologists can't decide if these two hand-holding skeletons were brothers or lovers.

This hand-painted advertisement is a literal sign of encouragement, however unintentional.

Buy raw milk from a 24/7 vending machine or pick up tomb candles at this local market.

These former ticket office windows in London's underground now house pocket-size parks.

This small museum is dedicated to telling the 4,000-year story of Palestinian history, culture, and resistance.

Dine on funerary beans alongside off-duty lucha libre wrestlers at this legume-centric spot near Museo Rufino Tamayo.

For the deepest sleep of your life, head 1,375 feet underground in Wales.

An ancient burial site that lights up with the winter solstice.

These megalithic tombs contain some of the largest stones ever moved in prehistory.

Named for a doctor who made a breakthrough in London’s cholera epidemic, this 1800s pub was also the site of a queer “kiss-in.”

A meticulously restored Wichita home designed by the most renowned American architect of the 20th century.

A posthumous honor at the iconic game show host's former high school.

A labor of love by laborers in the sign-making business.

Order a whiskey neat in the former jail of Kowloon’s British-era Marine Police Headquarters.

A raised Japanese building has preserved 8th-century artifacts for more than a millennium, earning this log cabin a reputation as the "world's oldest museum."

This park features a wooden causeway preserved since the Neolithic era.