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Little Rock, Arkansas

Billy Bass Adoption Center

Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.
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Taree, Australia

Big Oyster

Homage to the local produce now serves as a car dealer.
San Francisco, California

Golden Gate Park Horseshoe Pitch

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.
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San Francisco, California

Murphy Windmill

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.
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San Francisco, California

Golden Gate Park Lawn Bowling Club

The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.
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Chaudeyrolles, France

Burle Triangle

A snowy highland notorious for unexplained aircraft crashes is France's own Bermuda Triangle.
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San Francisco, California

John McLaren Statue

The legendary statue-hating superintendent of Golden Gate Park is honored with... a statue.
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San Francisco, California

La Boule d'Or Petanque Terrain

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.
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San Jose, California

Drawbridge

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.
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Ston, Croatia

Walls of Ston

Longest fortress system anywhere in Europe.
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Kaspichan, Bulgaria

Madara Rider

Rock carving created 1,300 years ago 75 feet off the ground.
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San Francisco, California

Spreckels Mansion

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.
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Bigelow, Arkansas

Toad Suck

Town not known for anything except its strange name.
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Norfork, Arkansas

Old Naked Joe Mountain

Peak named for an old man who liked to run in the nude.
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Hexham, Australia

Big Mosquito

Modeled after the big, ferocious Hexham Grey mosquito.
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Puerto Triunfo, Colombia

Hacienda Nápoles

Former drug lord’s manor, now a theme park. Watch out for the hippos.
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Charleston, South Carolina

Unitarian Church Cemetery

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.
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Los Angeles, California

John Sowden House

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.
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