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The Living Museum
40.7373, -73.7325
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Barryscourt Castle
51.9046, -8.2590
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38.9004, -76.9865
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50.6093, 5.6040
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Grand Rapids, Michigan
Tanglefoot Building
Where most of the world's flypaper was made.
42.9571, -85.6865
Palermo, Italy
Santuario di Santa Rosalia
Cave shrine on Monte Pellegrino.
38.1601, 13.3536
Ryde, England
Donald McGill Seaside Postcard Museum
Obscene versions of this artist's work are the most popular.
50.7299, -1.1620
Pramarzo, Italy
Temple of Damanhur
Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.
45.4175, 7.7483
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Drake Vintage Music & Curios
Veritable museum of 20th century country music history.
36.8212, -86.4167
Fulda, Germany
Pylon 9108
Electricity pylon standing in the middle of a shelter.
50.5521, 9.6870
Turnov, Czechia
ÄŒeskĂ½ RĂ¡j (Bohemian Paradise)
Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.
50.5874, 15.1581
Prague, Czechia
Jan Palach Memorial
Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.
50.0798, 14.4297
Athens, Greece
Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art
Large collection from the 3rd millennium BCE.
37.9739, 23.7417
Eisenberg an der Raab, Austria
Eisenberg Lawn Cross
Cross mysteriously appeared for 36 years.
46.9053, 16.1427
Nehren, Germany
Anlage 0704
Powerline dead since the 1980s despite appearances.
48.4368, 9.0584
Williamsburg, Michigan
Music House Museum
Full-sized barn houses many restored instruments.
44.7792, -85.4952
Houston, Texas
Aurora Picture Show
Local arts organization founded in a former church.
29.7273, -95.4166
Herzberg, Germany
Deutschlandsender III
Remains of a huge radio tower.
51.6910, 13.2292
Berlin, Germany
Fernsehturm MĂ¼ggelberge
This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.
52.4164, 13.6365
Brooklyn, New York
Coney Island Creek
Waterway populated with abandoned projects, including a submarine.
40.5798, -73.9899
London, England
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre
Traveling collection of amazing automata.
51.5197, -0.1169
Gurun, Malaysia
Gurun Electric Converter Temple
Temple-like building holds power equipment.
5.8125, 100.5350
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