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Vaucanson's most famous automaton, brought back to life.

A garden of massive sculptures sits in Jean Lindard's backyard.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

Visitors dating back to the 1600s carved their marks in the stones of the iconic tower.

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.

The tallest hotel in Europe.

Gigantic natural towers in a Russian plateau.

This nostalgic Russian museum is full of USSR cultural artifacts from the 1970s and 80s.

The world's first museum dedicated to the work of game-changing naturalist Charles Darwin.

Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.

Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.

A man-made island fort that has housed soldiers, scientists, and ravers.

Museum design and public transportation meet in this unique Russian train car.

Dozens of padlock-trees along the Moscow River.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

Specimens collected by the author of "Lolita" and self-taught lepidopterist are exhibited in his childhood home.

The past, present, and future of Russia's signature alcohol is remembered in the world's only museum dedicated to the starchy spirit.

Moscow's most popular cemetery includes the graves of numerous cosmonauts.

The deepest hole drilled in the name of science, where evidence of Precambrian life was found.

The coldest city in the world.

A grassy pyramid named after a French battle.

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.

Birthplace of the "Cat in the Cradle" and a cluster of iconic, original windmills that let the Dutch tame the seas.