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Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

This small oxbow lake has rare giant river otters and some Seussian-sounding birds.

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

Of the many chalices in the running for the Holy Grail, this one in Valencia Cathedral sure looks the part.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

The top of society once luxuriated in this world-class hotel, which continues to impress, even in ruin.

Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

The cedar tree in Highgate Cemetery earned its title by accident.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

Iceland's largest geothermal mud pool is a little bit haunted and a little bit dangerous.

A climbing route in the mountains of Italy’s Dolomites, built for soldiers during World War I.

This towering totem holds the title for the tallest in the world but only according to some.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

The celebrity luchadores of La Paz are tough ladies in traditional petticoats and braids.

This Tibetan monastery has survived multiple attacks and is also a sky burial site.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

The grassy landscape is home to the world's last truly wild horses.

The masses at this church incorporate enough moonshine and animal sacrifice that they are no longer recognizably Catholic.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.