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Walls

Itchen Kala.

Xiva, Uzbekistan

Walls of Itchan Kala

Ancient barriers wrap around what was once an important stop along the Silk Road.

Kaninchenfeld (Rabbit Field).

Berlin, Germany

Kaninchenfeld (Rabbit Field)

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

Hunting blind.

Winter Park, Colorado

Rollins Pass Game Traps

Paleoamericans built these ancient walls high in the Colorado Rockies as part of an extensive hunting system.

Roman Walls of Cardiff Castle

Roman Walls of Cardiff Castle

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

Ancient walls.

Phoenician Walls of Erice

Tourists to the mountaintop Sicilian town often overlook its ancient fortifications.

Arco de Santa María

Arco de Santa María

The most elaborate of 12 medieval arched doorways to the old city of Burgos.

The Paredones.

The Paredones

These overlooked ruins give an intimate look at the Inca Empire's urban planning prowess.

The ruins.

Poni, Burkina Faso

Ruins of Loropéni

These mysterious 1,000-year-old walls have revealed little about their past.

Remains of the mysterious wall.

Chatsworth, Georgia

Fort Mountain Rock Fort

The mysterious 855-foot zigzagging stone wall has been baffling people for centuries.

Stone wall, with moss, Putney, Vermont.

New England Is Crisscrossed With Thousands of Miles of Stone Walls

That's enough to circle the globe—four times.

Anna Kusmer May 4, 2018

Marco Island, Florida

Otter Mound Preserve

Decorative shell walls built in the 1940s sit atop an ancient midden created by the Calusa Native Americans.

Snösätra.

Stockholm, Sweden

Snösätra Wall of Fame

Street artists transformed this abandoned industrial neighborhood into one of Europe's largest graffiti exhibitions.

Solitude Speedway closeup.

Salt Lake City, Utah

Solitude Speedway

An enormous image of Utah's salt flats made entirely from tape.

Pärnu Seawall.

Pärnu, Estonia

Pärnu Seawall

Legend says lovers who hold hands while venturing along this stone jetty and kiss at the end will remain together forever.

Modern cars still pass under this ancient Roman arch.

Lincoln, England

Newport Arch

Modern commuters still pass through this 2,000-year-old Roman archway.

A parking lot on top of the medieval walls.

Southampton, England

Southampton Walls

A half-mile-long stretch of medieval forts built after a devastating pirate attack persists amid the modern port city.

A wealth of colorful ceramic signatures.

Wall of Alassio

Ernest Hemingway was the first to sign this colorful wall covered in thousands of celebrity signatures.

St. Audoen's Gate.

Dublin, Ireland

Saint Audoen's Gate

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin's lost medieval wall.