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Fuente de los Niños Miones
20.6767, -103.3429
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Tarrafal Concentration Camp
15.2635, -23.7437
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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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Sofia, Bulgaria
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.
42.6958, 23.3330
Sofia, Bulgaria
The Largo
Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.
42.6976, 23.3250
Shipka, Bulgaria
Shipka Memorial Church
A magnificent, glittering building tucked into a tiny Bulgarian mountain town.
42.7161, 25.3289
Isles of Scilly, England
Bishop Rock
At high tide, the base of the lighthouse covers practically every inch of the island.
49.8667, -6.4500
Clarksville, Texas
Becknell Cemetery
The final resting place of Captain William Becknell, the Old West frontiersman who forged the Santa Fe Trail.
33.6263, -95.1535
Brooklyn, New York
Sunshine Laundromat
One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.
40.7293, -73.9536
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
Bird Island Beach
A gorgeous gem on the ocean.
15.2555, 145.8101
Sofia, Bulgaria
National Palace of Culture
A vast Communist-era exhibition space in the Bulgarian capital.
42.6847, 23.3189
United States / Canada
Machias Seal Island
The only land territory disputed between the U.S. and Canada.
44.5023, -67.1013
Doha, Qatar
Orry the Oryx Statue
This seemingly random 30-foot statue of an oryx in Qatar's capital was a mascot for the 2006 Asian Games.
25.3078, 51.5196
Jodhpur, India
The Blue City of Jodhpur
Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.
26.3023, 73.0523
Sofia, Bulgaria
The Bells Monument
"Unity, Creativity, Beauty."
42.6188, 23.3794
East Jerusalem, Israel
Siloam Tunnel
An ancient tunnel in Jerusalem built to redirect water in the event of a siege is one of history’s great architectural innovations.
31.7742, 35.2374
Granville, New York
The Pember Museum
Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.
43.4062, -73.2630
Supai, Arizona
Havasupai Falls
This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.
36.2551, -112.6979
Kinney, Minnesota
Republic of Kinney
This tiny Minnesota city tried to secede from the Union as a last-ditch effort to fix its crumbling water system.
47.5142, -92.7281
Krakow, Poland
Elvis Presley Avenue
There are thousands of tributes and memorials to the King, but none quite like this one in a Kraków city park.
50.0430, 19.9090
Alden, New York
Town Line, New York
The "last holdout of the Confederacy” actually sat at the edge of the Canadian border.
42.8850, -78.5583
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