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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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Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
The Tunnels of Rabaul
This volcanically volatile island town is home to an abandoned series of tunnels left by the Japanese during WWII.
Kiribati
Nikumaroro Island
Amelia Earhart's possible place of death.
Howland Island
Earhart Light
The ruins of a lighthouse on the island Amelia Earhart never reached.
Vallejo, California
Mare Island
The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.
Berlin, Maryland
Assateague Island
The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.
Chokoloskee, Florida
Ted Smallwood Store
A time capsule of Floridian history fights to survive on the banks of Chokoloskee Bay.
Delos, Greece
The Temple of Dionysos
Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.
Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands
Wreck of HMS Bounty
The watery grave of Captain Bligh's famous ship.
Bronx, New York
North Brother Island
Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Kerguelen Islands
French scientists make up the majority of the few humans to occupy this remote island in the extreme southern Indian Ocean.
Philippines
Vulcan Point
An island in the middle of a lake, in the middle of a volcano, in the middle of a bigger lake, in the middle of a bigger island, in an archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Octagon Tower
A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.
Wake Island
A remote coral island with a gristly history of shipwreck, battles, and a horrendous war crime.
Honduras
Swan Islands
Remote Honduran Islands with a colorful history.
Homosassa, Florida
Monkey Island of Homosassa
In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.
County Donegal, Ireland
St. Patrick's Purgatory
The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.
Bronx, New York
Hart Island
The loneliest island in New York.
Venice, Italy
San Servolo Insane Asylum Museum
Venice's "Island of the Mad."
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