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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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Moscow, Russia
Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics
Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.
55.8240, 37.6207
Korolyov, Russia
RKK Energiya Museum
This iconic Russian space museum sits on a landmark space production facility and houses the Vostok 1, the first manned spacecraft, that was also built here.
55.9125, 37.8549
San Francisco, California
The House of Days
An unassuming grey box sitting on San Francisco's Pier 17 is a "sky diary" of the coastal city's temperamental weather.
37.8081, -122.4278
Shchyolkovo, Russia
Star City
Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.
55.8806, 38.1105
Moscow, Russia
Monument to the Conquerors of Space
Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.
55.8224, 37.6397
Baikonur, Kazakhstan
Baikonur Cosmodrome
World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.
45.6282, 63.3046
Newcastle, Australia
Newcastle City Morgue Echo Spot
By standing on a particular paving stone in the courtyard, you'll hear an echo that shouldn't be.
-32.9279, 151.7852
Greenland
The Flowers of Kaffeklubben Island
The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.
83.6667, -29.8333
Managua, Nicaragua
The Old Cathedral of Managua - Catedral de Santiago
A crumbling cathedral condemned by an earthquake.
12.1565, -86.2719
New York, New York
Mmuseumm
A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."
40.7175, -74.0027
Bisbee, Arizona
The Shady Dell
Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.
31.4298, -109.8919
Santa Cruz, California
Court of Mysteries
A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.
36.9549, -122.0453
O'Leary, Prince Edward Island
Canadian Potato Museum
This sprawling collection hides many charms.
46.7071, -64.2269
Naftah, Tunisia
Leftover 'Star Wars' Sets
Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.
33.9942, 7.8428
Fort Bragg, California
International Sea Glass Museum
Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.
39.4025, -123.8085
Dublin, Ireland
Dublin Whiskey Fire
A devastating booze inferno poured through the streets, claiming several victims who drank it.
53.3381, -6.2791
Nuuk, Greenland
Blok P
1% of Greenland's entire population used to live in this single building, which is now slated for demolition.
64.1754, -51.7327
Seattle, Washington
Carl S. English Jr. Botanical Gardens
A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.
47.6667, -122.3975
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