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Outsider art meets hard scrabble mountain life in this woodcarver's home/art piece.

Artistic cabins actually grow deep in the Canadian wilderness.

Cliffs that hold fossils, including the earliest known reptile, dating back more than 300 million years.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

The middle finger of modernity.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

The Incredible Hulk, Yoda, Mulder and Scully, and many many others watch over the mean streets of Toronto.

A completely underwater art museum sends a stark message about humans' impact on the environment.

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.