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Cool down and fill up after visiting Teotihuacán at this bar and restaurant in a deep, underground cave.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

A star-shaped fortress town fort built in the geometric model of the Renaissance utopian city.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

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

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

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.

The first geometric self-supporting spiral stairs in Britain are a truly beautiful sight.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

A monument in the Belarusian city of Polotsk claims to mark the exact midpoint of the European continent.

Colorful concentric circles honor a small Croatian town's supposed spot at the nucleus of it all.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.