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The near loss of the stately fireplaces at this medieval castle spawned some of Britain's most crucial historic preservation laws.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

No one knows the origins of the mysterious stone ruins discovered on a hillside in Halifax.

A unique park tells the geological history of Belarus in a national “map” of thousands of boulders and blue spruce.

This wondrous waterfall rushing down a green-covered mountain wasn't discovered until 2010.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

You can see three Irish counties from this Neolithic hillside fort, once the seat of the Kingdom of Ailech.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

A replica that won't float away.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.