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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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Vevey, Switzerland
La Fourchette (The Fork)
At 929 pounds and 26 feet tall, this stainless steel fork can only be used by the likes of King Kong.
Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin
Bathtub Spring
A roadside spring pooling in an old bathtub where anyone can stop and sip.
Cairo, Egypt
Nilometer
An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.
Alamada, Philippines
Asik-Asik Falls
This wondrous waterfall rushing down a green-covered mountain wasn't discovered until 2010.
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Washington, D.C.
Babcock Lake Fisheries
The U.S. Fish Commission’s effort to mass produce carp.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Bayers Lake Mystery Walls
No one knows the origins of the mysterious stone ruins discovered on a hillside in Halifax.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Swann Memorial Fountain
A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.
North Atlantic Ocean
Sargasso Sea
The only sea in the world that has no land boundary.
science
The Great Salt Lake's Mercury Mystery
A bunch of toxic mercury is suddenly missing from the bottom.
Bingley, England
Cottingley Beck
The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.
Washington, D.C.
Water Gate at the Watergate Complex
Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.
Barnet, Vermont
Harvey's Lake: Home of Jacques Cousteau's First Dive
The place where the great marine explorer first learned to work underwater is not where you'd expect.
White Springs, Florida
White Sulfur Springs Ruins
The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.
Anmore, British Columbia
Buntzen Lake Powerhouses
The century-old plant starred as the villainous clown's lair in the miniseries based on Stephen King's "It."
WÄ…growiec, Poland
The Wagrowiec Bifurcation
One of only two places in the world where two rivers cross each other without the waters mixing.
Eufaula, Alabama
Memorial to Leroy Brown
That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.
Deline, Northwest Territories
Great Bear Lake
Locals believe the purity of this huge, untouched Arctic lake could be the salvation of human civilization.
Bamford, England
The Upper Derwent Reservoirs
This chain of artificial lakes was an ideal test ground for the aircraft that would carry the "bouncing bombs" used by the WWII "Dambusters" squad.
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