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Drink wine handed out through a window as part of an age-old tradition.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

A hidden, morbidly fascinating cemetery deep in the forest.

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

No one knows the meaning behind this giant sculpture of a nude woman with a fork riding a rooster in Havana.

In the Compton Hill Reservoir Park sits a statue whose lack of clothing caused a scandal for the group that commissioned it.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.

This charming, flower-filled, paved cul-de-sac is filled with artists' studio-houses built in the 1920s.

The secret centuries-old German cemetery in the heart of the Vatican.

According to local legend, anyone who falls on these temple steps will turn into a cat.

Charming small streets lined with well preserved wooden houses dating to the 18th and 19th century.

A sculpture of a courtesan towers above Lake Constance, recalling a church scandal.

The world’s second-largest flood defense barrier has protected London for decades.

This Cambodian riverbed is covered in ancient Hindu carvings both above and below the waters.

A two-storey cabinet of wonders filled with the bizarre, the macabre, and the downright uncanny.

An unusual cave filled with rare alien-looking aragonite formations.

In Stone Town, Zanzibar, the city’s culture and history is told through its doors.

At almost 1,000 years old, this is the oldest known door in all of Britain.

Along the most northwestern point in Africa is an ancient cave surrounded by legends.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

An eerie ghost village hidden in the forests of the Eifel, frozen in a strange postwar limbo.

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.