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Leadenhall Wunderkammer
51.5128, -0.0835
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Tugendamt und Pizzarand (Virtue Office and Pizza Crust)
52.4163, 13.1969
Lam Sin, Thailand
Red Barrels Historical Memorial
7.5582, 99.9329
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Amelia Island Pirate Voyages
30.6712, -81.4649
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam Oersoep
A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.
Brisbane, Australia
Streets Beach
Brisbane's manmade urban beach has enough water to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Laos
Kong Lor Cave
A boat ride through utter darkness, lit only by headlamps, reveals an emerald green pool locals believe is sacred.
Austin, Texas
Snake Island
A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.
Spalding, England
The Outer Trial Bank
"The Donut" was built as part of an expensive, ill-fated engineering endeavor.
Duluth, Minnesota
Uncle Harvey's Mausoleum
The watery grave of an impractical idea.
Buldhana, India
Lonar Lake
This rare basalt crater lake is used to study the Moon and Mars.
astronomy
The Earth’s Wildest Reactions to High Tides
You can thank the moon's gravitational pull for these nine extraordinary sights.
Minsterworth, England
Severn Bore
This stretch of the River Severn where large waves flow against the current is the birthplace of river surfing.
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Ukrainian Lifeguard Rescued After Washing Up on Shores of Crimea
He had fallen asleep on an inflatable trampoline.
Breezanddijk, Netherlands
Afsluitdijk
The 20-mile causeway that separates the Netherlands from the sea.
Permanently Closed
Seoul, South Korea
Poopoo Land
A bright and wacky exhibit answers every question you may have had about human excrement, flatulence, and more.
waterfalls
An Ill-Timed Sewage Release Turned the Water Around Niagara Falls Black
"It looked like something out of a sci-fi movie," one spectator said.
Improvement District No. 9, Alberta
Lake Minnewanka Underwater Ghost Town
The only way to visit this old resort hotel is with scuba gear.
Vienna, Austria
Vienna Sewer System
Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.
Permanently Closed
Hackensack, New Jersey
USS Ling Submarine
A World War II-era submarine is stuck in the mud in New Jersey.
Oman
Snake Canyon
Nature's water park in the Wadi Bani Awf valley is full of pools flanked with cliffs and natural water slides.
Cromford, England
Cromford Mill
The world's first successful water-powered cotton mill paved the way for the factories of the British Industrial Revolution.
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