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Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

A section in the cemetery mostly for circus performers, including victims of the famous 1918 Hammond Circus train wreck.

This ancient goddess temple inspired the design of India’s Parliament House.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

The statue, located at a mansion-turned-emancipation museum, honors Galveston’s history as the birthplace of Juneteenth.

One of the last soy sauce-makers in Hong Kong has been in the artisanal condiment business since 1917.

A bizarre example of collective behavior resulted in thousands of shoe prints in Vegas parking lots.

These structures serve as a memorial to one of Boston’s most ambitious and controversial urban redevelopment projects.

These giant volcanic rocks towering above the Angolan savannah once served as a natural fortification.

Once built to inspire young Soviet minds through astronomy, this dome now stands as a quiet relic of a vanished era.

Traces of General Patton’s Mojave Desert training camps for the North Africa campaign.

One of Mexico City's seats of the Catholic faith, although not the majoritarian Latin Roman rite.