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Seventeen members of the local royal family are interred in this Baroque church in northern Germany.

One of the Cemestos prefab homes built to secretly house thousands of Manhattan Project workers.

This statue of the "father of television" stands prominently in the United States Capitol.

A plaque claims this artwork outside a children's hospital was used in the 1998 Quidditch World Cup.

The religious shrine that Pablo Escobar's men would allegedly visit before completing a mission.

The house where the pulp fiction writer and Conan the Barbarian creator lived.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.

An obelisk marks the spot where a British explorer's heart was buried before the rest of his body was transported to England.

The home of possibly the least-loved U.S. president stands as a sort of unpopular Monticello.

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

The artwork commemorates the many ways 20th-century people perished while on the clock.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

Dozens of houses in the Adirondack Mountains are reminders of a literal "cottage industry" to cure people of a deadly disease.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

A diminutive plaque recalls the treetop sniper who almost killed Abe Lincoln.

This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

A giant ball made from pieces of an old Jeep.

The abandoned funicular tunnel was a secret base for the BBC during World War II.

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