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Guadalajara, Mexico
Fuente de los Niños Miones
20.6767, -103.3429
Chão 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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Tokyo, Japan
Clone Factory
Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."
35.6973, 139.7725
Tarrenz, Austria
Starkenberger Beer Pools
Where beer lovers can literally immerse themselves in beer.
47.2617, 10.7540
Keene Valley, New York
Mount Marcy
The summit Roosevelt conquered before he descended to become The Chief.
44.1126, -73.9235
Aogashima, Japan
Aogashima Volcano
We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...
32.4583, 139.7688
Chichen Itza, Mexico
El Caracol
No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.
20.6802, -88.5707
Catarman, Philippines
Sunken Cemetery
A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.
9.2066, 124.6326
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.
34.0887, -118.3190
Gothenburg, Sweden
Gothenburg Medical History Museum
A 200-year-old collection of medical paraphernalia in a historic house.
57.7089, 11.9666
Selçuk, Turkey
The Public Toilets of Ephesus
The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.
37.9517, 27.3747
Pontarfynach, Wales
Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion
Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.
52.3770, -3.8499
Ra, Fiji
Udre Udre's Grave
Final resting place of the most prolific Fijian cannibal of all time.
-17.3736, 178.1706
Denbigh, Wales
Denbigh Insane Asylum
The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.
53.1746, -3.4212
Brooklyn, New York
Red Hook Grain Terminal
The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”
40.6708, -74.0046
Cleveland, Ohio
Balto the Sled Dog
The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.
41.5117, -81.6118
Beppu, Japan
Chinoike Jigoku
Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.
33.3276, 131.4784
Agua Dulce, California
Vasquez Rocks
Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.
34.4886, -118.3207
Simsboro, Louisiana
Driskill Mountain
The highest point in Louisiana, Driskill Mountain at 535 feet above sea level.
32.4246, -92.8974
Paris, France
Musée Dupuytren
Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.
48.8508, 2.3412
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