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Rig Museum
29.6912, -91.2097
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35.7596, 139.7077
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-15.4218, 28.3093
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Alexander Graham Bell Statue
43.1415, -80.2643
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New York, New York
The Elevated Acre
Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.
40.7032, -74.0094
London, England
The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
51.5346, -0.0575
Marble Canyon, Arizona
The Wave
Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.
36.9961, -112.0061
Mitaka, Japan
Ghibli Museum
A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.
35.6962, 139.5704
Kyoto, Japan
Sagano Bamboo Forest
The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.
35.0167, 135.6710
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.
29.9598, -90.0639
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Eastern State Penitentiary
World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.
39.9673, -75.1737
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
London, England
Cecil Court
A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.
51.5107, -0.1271
New York, New York
Lexington Candy Shop
The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.
40.7775, -73.9573
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mütter Museum
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
39.9535, -75.1768
San Jose, California
The Winchester Mystery House
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
37.3189, -121.9506
Las Vegas, Nevada
The Neon Museum
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.
36.1770, -115.1353
Page, Arizona
Antelope Canyon
Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.
36.8618, -111.3743
Berlin, Germany
Spreepark
An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.
52.4836, 13.4916
New York, New York
Explorers Club Headquarters
A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.
40.7699, -73.9656
Boston, Massachusetts
Mapparium Globe
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
42.3455, -71.0868
Paris, France
Père Lachaise Cemetery
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
48.8594, 2.3910
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