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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
Agra, India
Statue of Lord Laddu Gopal
27.1951, 78.0212
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Singapore
Gardens by the Bay
Singapore's landscaping project is home to 18 incredible Supertrees.
1.2787, 103.8649
Jaipur, India
Jantar Mantar
The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.
26.9246, 75.8242
Bern, Switzerland
Naturhistorisches Museum
Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.
46.9421, 7.4489
Istanbul, Turkey
Serpent Column
Ancient serpentine sacrifice holder that has stood the test of time.
41.0056, 28.9751
Pisa, Italy
Orto Botanico di Pisa (Botanical Garden of Pisa)
The first botanical garden, a feather in the cap of the Grand Duke of Tuscany.
43.7198, 10.3959
Padua, Italy
Botanical Garden of Padua - Orto botanico di Padova
The oldest botanical garden in the world that technically isn't the oldest.
45.3991, 11.8807
San Diego, California
Harper's Topiary Garden
A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.
32.7412, -117.1761
San Diego County, California
Goat Canyon Trestle
The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
32.7291, -116.1834
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam
Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.
52.3670, 4.9084
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
Longwood Gardens
This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.
39.8712, -75.6747
Barumini, Italy
Su Nuraxi di Barumini
This one-of-a-kind archeological site is home to strange prehistoric ruins, the original use of which is still a mystery.
39.7037, 9.0013
Grass Valley, California
Swan Levine House
Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.
39.2157, -121.0666
Burjassot, Spain
Patio de Los Silos
The odd cement nubs littering this Spanish square are actually the entrances to a series of buried silos.
39.5092, -0.4118
Lisle, Illinois
Four Columns at Morton Arboretum
A tribute to one granddaughter's old apartment which now represents the whims of each visitor.
41.8126, -88.0673
San Francisco, California
Buena Vista Park Tombstones
Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.
37.7688, -122.4420
Cahors, France
Pont Valentre
A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.
44.4452, 1.4310
Delray Beach, Florida
The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens
Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.
26.4298, -80.1568
Concord, Massachusetts
Walden Pond
"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."
42.4405, -71.3345
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