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Liège, Belgium
'Tombe de la Famille Nagelmackers'
50.6093, 5.6040
Ciboure, France
Egiategia
43.3912, -1.6845
Beek-Ubbergen, Netherlands
Miniature Landscapes
51.8237, 5.9354
Victoria, Malta
The Street Shrines of Victoria
36.0453, 14.2375
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Gijón, Spain
Elogio del Horizonte
This modern sculpture looks out over the sea and amplifies sound from the inside.
43.5491, -5.6631
Sofia, Bulgaria
The Red Flat
An interactive museum-like experience takes visitors back to 1980s Communist Bulgaria.
42.6940, 23.3197
Hayfield, California
Carey's Castle
Hidden deep in the Joshua Tree Wilderness, this 1940s miner's cabin built into a gap between two mega-sized boulders.
33.7007, -115.6828
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Argentina's Miniature Statue of Liberty
The Estatua de la Libertad stands discretely on an obscure tangent path in Barrancas de Belgrano.
-34.5607, -58.4477
West Lafayette, Indiana
Cairo Skywatch Tower
The U.S. Air Force commissioned this tower during the Korean War to watch the sky for enemy aircraft.
40.5407, -86.9240
Banff, Alberta
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
Dive into the history and true tall-tales of Banff National Park.
51.1752, -115.5731
Kirkby, England
Edward’s Elephant
A giant earring-wearing, poker-waving elephant statue stands in a Viking longboat in Kirkby town center.
53.4812, -2.8865
Tucson, Arizona
Pima Air & Space Museum
Browse an impressive collection of passenger and military aircraft dating back to World War II.
32.1402, -110.8647
Tucson, Arizona
Center for Creative Photography
Enormous photography collection housed in a study center co-founded by Ansel Adams.
32.2354, -110.9540
Tucson, Arizona
Tumamoc Hill
Hikers and walkers flock to this historic volcanic butte for its scenic desert views.
32.2139, -111.0061
Vișeu de Sus, Romania
Vaser Valley Forestry Railway
The last active narrow-gauge forest railway in Europe.
47.7149, 24.4329
Dublin, Ireland
Dalkey Island
A tiny island off the coast of Dublin was once a pilgrimage site for the sick and the suffering.
53.2716, -6.0849
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Bronze Cow
The last remaining vestige of a popular 1999 public art display.
41.8842, -87.6250
Madrid, Spain
Baltasar Bachero Tile Mosaic
Baltasar Bachero became a hero after he saved the lives of two children nearly run over by an out-of-control mule-drawn carriage.
40.4091, -3.6991
Alberta
Castleguard Cave
Canada’s longest cave system is home to creatures found nowhere else on the planet, as well as rare cave pearls.
52.1681, -117.1003
Russia
Ulakhan-Sis Range
A remote Arctic mountain range is home to "granite cities" found almost nowhere else.
70.9313, 133.3926
Nara, Japan
Shōsōin
A raised Japanese building has preserved 8th-century artifacts for more than a millennium, earning this log cabin a reputation as the "world's oldest museum."
34.6918, 135.8386
London, England
John Snow
Named for a doctor who made a breakthrough in London’s cholera epidemic, this 1800s pub was also the site of a queer “kiss-in.”
51.5133, -0.1367
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