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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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Southwest Harbor, Maine
Mount Desert Spring Blues Brothers
A decidedly out of place statue memorializes the Blues Brothers characters at this water bottling plant.
44.2887, -68.3305
Grand Marais, Minnesota
Devil's Kettle
Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.
47.7972, -90.1137
San Francisco, California
Treasure Island Naval History Mural
An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.
37.8173, -122.3708
Tbilisi, Georgia
The Iveria
Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.
41.7041, 44.7934
Tbilisi, Georgia
Leaning Tower of Tbilisi
The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.
41.6958, 44.8066
Chicago, Illinois
Tsavo Man Eaters
These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.
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New York, New York
Pneumatic System of the New York Public Library
One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.
40.7533, -73.9823
San Francisco, California
Pacific Unity Sculptures
Deco Modern sculptures of the people of the Pacific, cast for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.
37.8171, -122.3711
Namibia
Fairy Circles of Southern Africa
Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.
-25.0191, 16.0170
Vaals, Netherlands
Labyrint Drielandenpunt
A beautiful maze marks where three countries meet.
50.7554, 6.0189
Los Angeles, California
Caine's Arcade
A 9 year-old boy’s elaborate cardboard arcade in his father’s used auto parts store.
34.0546, -118.2246
Beira, Mozambique
Grande Hotel of Beira
Once living up to its name as the grandest hotel in all of Africa, the Grande Hotel is now home to a community of squatters.
-19.8472, 34.8406
Sheffield, Australia
Tasmania's 'Town of Murals'
The once-dying town of Sheffield, Tasmania has reinvented itself as a village of painted wonders.
-41.3822, 146.3248
Shanghai, China
Heima Bar
A Viking-themed bar in a canal town for those retreating from the hustle and bustle of Shanghai.
31.1097, 121.0563
Las Vegas, Nevada
'Bliss Dance'
An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.
36.1036, -115.1747
Oslo, Norway
Vigeland Sculpture Park
One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."
59.9245, 10.7075
Lyons, Oregon
Jawbone Flats Mining Museum
1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.
44.8594, -122.2748
Val della Torre, Italy
The Stele of Mount Musinè
A mysterious stele of unknown origin sits on the peak of this curious mountain.
45.1139, 7.4544
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