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"Lyra and Will's bench" that features in "The Amber Spyglass" by Phillip Pullman.
Oxford, England

Oxford Botanic Garden

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.
Original Dare Stone
Gainesville, Georgia

Dare Stones

A mysterious inscription may hold a clue about the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke.
Madison, Wisconsin

L.R. Ingersoll Physics Museum

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.
A map at the Visitors Center lays out student protests across the USA in 1970.
Kent, Ohio

Kent State May 4 Visitors Center

This campus museum commemorates a national tragedy.
Gastro Obscura

Trashing

For some students at the University of Oxford, the end of the year means getting covered with eggs, shaving cream, and champagne.
Reactor Instituut Delft.
Delft, Netherlands

Reactor Institute Delft

A nuclear reactor created for Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" campaign is now used for research at a Dutch university.
Van de Wall telescope.
Leiden, Netherlands

Van der Wall Telescope

Once the world's biggest telescope, it was later used as a coat hanger by a famous Dutch astronomer.
The Edna Lawrence Nature Lab.
Providence, Rhode Island

Edna Lawrence Nature Lab

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Musée Eudore-Dubeau
Montreal, Québec

Musée Eudore Dubeau

The only museum about the history of dentistry in Canada.
The labyrinth.
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Harvard Divinity School Labyrinth

This hidden labyrinth offers walkers some brief peace of mind.
Sideways' grave at Georgia Tech.
Atlanta, Georgia

The Sideways Grave of Sideways the Dog

A slanted tomb honors the faithful, furry companion of the Georgia Tech student body.
Another wall, including the "Full Circle" pennant.
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Clover HSQ

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.
Students in Lappis scream every Tuesday at 10 p.m.
Stockholm, Sweden

Lappis Scream

Every Tuesday, students let off steam by screaming into the night air.
Permanently Closed
Lamp/Bear.
Providence, Rhode Island

'Untitled (Lamp/Bear)'

This blue behemoth of a bear is a colorful homage to Brown University's mascot.
Gastro Obscura

Cougar Gold Cheese

This canned cheddar is made using a secret 70-year-old bacteria culture.
Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory.
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory

One of the world's premier laboratories for hydraulic engineering research takes full advantage of the water's power.
The Frass.
Singapore

LASALLE Campus Green

A quiet patch of astroturf laid out between a building that seems to be splitting in half.
University Museum of Sciences and Arts.
Naples, Italy

Anatomy Museum of the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli

An eerie, little-known Neapolitan museum filled with preserved human remains.