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This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

The darkest building on Earth was built for the snow-white scenery of the 2018 Winter Olympics.

A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

A mysterious Neolithic tomb is perched along the edge of a modern golf course.

A midcentury ranch house hides a literal treasure trove of unique rocks and minerals.

The 40-year-old machine serves soda quicker than you can catch it for a mere 75 cents a pop.

Woven tree art gives this towering Australian woodland a touch of mystical whimsy.

The Incas turned this ancient Wari aqueduct into an imposing defensive gate.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

The roadway bend where highway painters practice their craft looks like expressionist art.

A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.

A massive land art sculpture fills a green space once tarnished by a landfill.

This unimaginably large pile of sand near Nazca is one of the tallest dunes in the world.

Did Inca children also slide down these smooth rocky slopes above Cusco?

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

A unique exhibit lets blind people experience famous works of art and architecture with their hands.

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.

At this unusual park, domes, ladders, chairs, and more are made from trees.

A backdoor to Machu Picchu that only the most foolhardy infiltrator would attempt to breach.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

Made from trees and then abandoned, this fence is still growing along a path in Germany.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

An overlooked collection of over 350,000 artistic works created by psychiatric patients using art therapy.