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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
Luarca, Spain
Giant Squid Museum
43.5410, -6.5389
Mumbai, India
The Old Limestone Arch
18.9688, 72.8039
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Tasman Island, Australia
Cape Pillar Sea Cliffs
The tallest sea cliffs on the Southern Hemisphere are a climber's worst nightmare.
Gili Meno, Indonesia
Abandoned Bounty Beach Bungalows Resort
A Balinese resort, empty and trapped in time.
Llangennith, Wales
Worm's Head Tidal Island
A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.
Aogashima, Japan
Aogashima Volcano
We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...
Alexandrovsky District, Russia
Nazino Island
Social outcasts and cannibalism in Stalin's Soviet Union.
Marazion, England
St Michael's Mount
A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.
Leeward Settlement, Turks and Caicos Islands
Iguana Island
Uninhabited islet in the Caribbean is the sanctuary of giant lizards.
abandoned insane asylums
Curious Fact of the Week: Plague Island
Ascension Island
Ascension Island
Remote, volcanic island that Darwin, Hooker, and the Royal Navy shaped into a thriving, artificial ecosystem.
Taketomi, Japan
The Star Sands of Hoshizuna-no-hama
White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.
Mellieħa, Malta
Popeye Village
An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.
Sydney, Australia
Cockatoo Island
Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.
Lido, Italy
Lazzaretto Vecchio
The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.
Mata-Utu, Wallis and Futuna
Ruins of Talietumu Fortress
The final stronghold of a king whose feet never touched the ground.
Sark, Guernsey
Sark Dark Sky Island
The first island in the world designated a light-pollution-free astronomical observation point.
United States Minor Outlying Islands
Jarvis Ghost Island
An abandoned guano-mining city in the South Pacific.
Seychelles
Vallee de Mai Nature Preserve
A British general, a suggestive tree, a map of paradise.
Yokosuka, Japan
Sarushima - "Monkey Island"
A small island with no monkeys but plenty of military ruins.
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