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An underground city of salt.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

A 19th century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

Hanging over one of Japan's "hidden valleys," these vine bridges must be remade every three years.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

The middle finger of modernity.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.