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Franklin, Pennsylvania
St. John's Episcopal Church
41.3958, -79.8289
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Frank & Nancy’s Marine Corps Museum
44.4595, -88.2140
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Giant Squid Museum
43.5410, -6.5389
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The Old Limestone Arch
18.9688, 72.8039
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Las Vegas, Nevada
Mystic Falls Park
This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.
Obergoms VS, Switzerland
Hotel Belvédère
A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.
Puerto MisahuallĂ, Ecuador
Sinchi Warmi Amazon Lodge
An exotic jungle hideaway run entirely by indigenous Kichwa women.
Ascona, Switzerland
Monte VeritĂ
The Swiss hilltop housed an early 20th-century vegetarian nudist colony.
Washington, D.C.
Hinckley Hilton President's Walk
A hidden passageway now marks the site of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that some say broke a 140-year-old curse.
Lima, Peru
Gran Hotel Bolivar
Visiting dignitaries and Hollywood stars once stayed at this 1920s hotel, alongside ghosts that are said to haunt its corridors.
Kupari, Croatia
The Abandoned Hotels of Kupari
The now-overgrown beach resort was once frequented by Yugoslav military elite.
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Dubrovnik, Croatia
Hotel Belvedere
The complex has been abandoned since the Croatian War of Independence, barring a stint as a set for 'Game of Thrones.'
Denver, Colorado
American Museum of Western Art
The huge collection of paintings of the American West is one of Denver's best-kept secrets.
Issaquah, Washington
Treehouse Point
A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.
Hawarden, Wales
Gladstone's Library
At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.
Gastro Obscura
Tea Dance
The surprisingly subversive history of dancing over afternoon tea.
Mount Creighton, New Zealand
Little Paradise Lodge
A lakeside garden in the Southern Alps full of whimsical artwork and thousands of beautiful flowers.
Frostburg, Maryland
The Jail in the Gunter Hotel
The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.
EgerszalĂ³k, Hungary
Salt Hill
The massive white mound and accompanying water terraces are a striking geological oddity.
Timor-Leste
Marobo Hot Springs
No one is quite sure of the origins of these idyllic natural hot springs at an abandoned mountain resort.
St. Paul's Bay, Malta
Buġibba Temple
The ruins of a megalithic monument sit right in the garden of a luxurious Maltese resort.
Friskney, England
RAF Wainfleet Control Tower
The control tower at the historic weapons range is now available as a highly unusual vacation rental.
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