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Fuente de los Niños Miones
20.6767, -103.3429
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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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Wroxall, England
Appuldurcombe House
This shell of a historic manor house on the Isle of Wight is said to be the most haunted site on the island.
50.6169, -1.2337
Seattle, Washington
Connections Museum
This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.
47.5409, -122.3232
Frankfort, Kentucky
Kentucky Floral Clock
This huge clock made of flowers and simple machinery was once used a political weapon.
38.1860, -84.8764
Saulces-Monclin, France
Woinic the World's Largest Boar
The world's largest boar is a huge steel titan found at a French rest stop.
49.5941, 4.5025
Sintra, Portugal
Pena National Palace
This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.
38.7876, -9.3906
Oranienburg, Germany
Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp
The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.
52.7635, 13.2602
Yeghegnadzor, Armenia
Noravank Monastery
Nestled in a peaceful valley, this Armenian monastery may have been saved from Mongols thanks to the eyes of God.
39.6841, 45.2329
Linden, Alberta
Sunnyslope Shelter
Sitting empty in a lonely Canadian field is a century-old stone bunker sometimes called "One Man's Castle."
51.6489, -113.5482
Los Angeles, California
Griffith Observatory’s Tesla Coil
High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.
34.1184, -118.3004
Dearborn, Michigan
Edison's Last Breath
A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.
42.3001, -83.2329
Makanda, Illinois
Monument to Boomer the Hero Dog
This odd stone memorial remembers a loyal dog who offended the rail barons with his speed and saved his master with his pee.
37.6176, -89.2095
Syracuse, New York
Upside-Down Traffic Signal
A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.
43.0466, -76.1856
Canton, Ohio
William McKinley Memorial
The 25th President's marble casket can be visited in this classical Ohio tomb.
40.8074, -81.3932
Hartlepool, England
Hartlepool Monkey Memorial
The legend of a monkey that was hanged as a spy has inspired not only a football team name, but a successful mayoral campaign.
54.6896, -1.2136
Calistoga, California
Sharpsteen Museum
A veteran Disney animator turned his gift for storytelling to a museum devoted to his love of a California city.
38.5788, -122.5807
Huelva, Spain
Grave of the Man Who Never Was
This amended headstone marks the grave of a participant in one of the most successful military deceptions of all time.
37.2881, -6.9259
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Bandelier National Monument
A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.
35.7791, -106.2709
Barre, Massachusetts
Naramore Grave
Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.
42.4187, -72.0514
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