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A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

Each year, teams of the world's best snow sculptors have 65 hours to create frozen masterpieces.

A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.

One of the last full-orchestra recording studios in New York City and an acoustical marvel.

The medieval town's star-shaped walls are geometrically dazzling, though not entirely impenetrable.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

A locomotive made from 185,000 bricks celebrates the town's pioneering railway history.

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

The fight to make Bengali an official language started in this stunning university hall.

The largest brick bridge in the world.

This architectural beauty is the home to a personal collection of more than 600 examples of mechanical musical instruments.

A tribute to the couples who brave long periods of separation during wartime.

An impressive century-old, to-scale topographical map of Guatemala.

Take a sea tractor to the Art Deco hotel on the island that inspired Agatha Christie.

The ruins of an ancient stadium that hosted gripping chariot and horse races.

Icelandic folklore says this giant boulder was ripped from the mountains and placed at its current location, where it became home to elves.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

A living museum dedicated to the legendary woodworker and his soulful furniture.

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.

The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.