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Guadalajara, Mexico
Fuente de los Niños Miones
20.6767, -103.3429
ChĂ£o Bom, Cabo Verde
Tarrafal Concentration Camp
15.2635, -23.7437
Ras Al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
Al Qasr Al Ghamedh (Al Qassimi Palace)
25.7421, 55.9361
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Statue of Lord Laddu Gopal
27.1951, 78.0212
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Newtown, Connecticut
Fairfield Hills Hospital
This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.
41.4010, -73.2853
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Frick Park Clay Courts
This historic Pittsburgh tennis complex is a rare example of natural red clay courts.
40.4369, -79.8964
Staveley, England
The Chesterfield-Staveley Cruiseway
This 8km stretch of isolated canal is gradually being extended towards its reconnection with the national canal network.
53.2715, -1.3519
Brampton Bierlow, England
Needle's Eye
A folly built to satisfy a gentleman's bet that he could drive his horses through the eye of a needle.
53.4847, -1.4044
Barcelona, Spain
Soviet Bunker at Salvador Andreu House
The former 1920s mansion of a prominent Catalan developer was used as the Soviet Embassy during the Spanish Civil War, and there is still a bunker below the garden.
41.4118, 2.1357
Promised Land, Australia
Tasmazia and the Village of Lower Crackpot
A huge maze complex and whimsical miniature village in Tasmania.
-41.4278, 146.2042
Barcelona, Spain
Taller d'Oleguer Junyent (Oleguer Junyent's Workshop)
The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.
41.3985, 2.1602
Huntsville, Texas
Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery
Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.
30.7125, -95.5352
San Francisco, California
Ruth Asawa’s San Francisco Fountain
Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.
37.7888, -122.4071
Alpine, New Jersey
Cliff Dale Manor Ruins
Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.
40.9482, -73.9241
Washington, D.C.
United Brick Corporation Ruins
Once the supplier for noteworthy projects like the National Cathedral, this old brickworks now lies abandoned.
38.9167, -76.9673
Yavapai County, Arizona
Montezuma Castle
Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.
34.6116, -111.8351
Saint Andrews, Scotland
Saint Salvator's Unlucky PH
Every St. Andrews student knows to avoid this inscription for fear of a martyr's curse.
56.3413, -2.7947
SĂ£o Paulo, Brazil
Vila Maria Zélia
The first model village in Brazil, built in 1917 to house workers at the jute sack factory.
-23.5336, -46.5990
Washington, D.C.
Site of the Knickerbocker Disaster
You could be standing at the site of one of D.C.'s most fatal tragedies and not even know it.
38.9222, -77.0429
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
The Dome of Light
The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.
22.6315, 120.3013
Gerlach, Nevada
Planet X Pottery
A unique solar-powered pottery studio and gallery in the desert.
40.7078, -119.4663
Santo André, Brazil
Paranapiacaba Train Station
The remains of a British railway rusting in the jungle mist of a Brazilian mountainside.
-23.7789, -46.3019
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