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The century-old plant starred as the villainous clown's lair in the miniseries based on Stephen King's "It."

The world's largest banyan tree is followed by a community of worshippers.

The profile of one ill-fated deacon was emblazoned forever on this church window during the Halifax explosion.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

This wondrous waterfall rushing down a green-covered mountain wasn't discovered until 2010.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

One of the world’s most colorful cemeteries, where each pigment is symbolic.

The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

A 16th-century Andalusian palace.

An impressive display of ships and artifacts from the ancient Mediterranean maritime trade.

These striking ruins of a castle resemble a ship's stern.

Remote, beautiful, and stigmatized, Las Hurdes is Spain's version of Appalachia.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

This quaint Spanish village agreed to be painted blue as a marketing stunt but found that they preferred it that way.

Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.

A Romanesque tower appears when water levels drop.