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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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Gallery O on H Street
38.9004, -76.9865
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50.6093, 5.6040
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Cairndow, Scotland
The John Lauder Memorial
A poignant tribute from a local legend paying tribute to his son.
56.1341, -5.0246
Kaunas, Lithuania
Kiemo Galerija (Courtyard Gallery)
An open-air art gallery that aims to share the stories of the people who live around it.
54.8996, 23.9043
Fukuoka, Japan
Sanatorium - Wonder Museum Annex
A bizarre, tuberculosis sanatorium-themed café moonlighting as an underground art gallery.
33.5925, 130.3975
Dumfries, Scotland
Moat Brae
After playing in this house and its gardens as a child, J.M. Barrie credited it for helping inspire the story of Peter Pan.
55.0715, -3.6132
Jaén, Spain
Arab Baths of Jaén
For centuries, the largest Arab bathhouse in Spain was hidden under a palace.
37.7711, -3.7941
England
The Spetchells
Northumberland has no natural deposits of chalk amongst its surface geology but The Spechells form an area of chalk grassland created from a waste tip generated from the industrial activity of the area during WW2.
54.9706, -1.8531
Mountain Pass, California
Mountain Pass Mine
The only mine for rare earth elements in the United States has been intermittently active since the 1950s.
35.4705, -115.5287
Motomiya, Japan
Motomiya Movie Theater
A disused, crumbling 110-year-old theater retains the authentic retro charms of Showa-era cinema.
37.5130, 140.4007
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn Seltzer Museum
Try an original egg cream at this museum located inside one of the last surviving old-fashioned seltzer factories in America.
40.6778, -73.8700
Ko Samui, Thailand
Grandfather and Grandmother Rocks (Hin Ta Hin Yai)
This natural rock formation has an anatomical aesthetic.
9.4525, 100.0392
Tōno City, Japan
Kappabuchi Pool
Visitors are encouraged to fish for water goblins at this haunted pool.
39.3541, 141.5705
Vientiane, Laos
Hor Lak Muang
The site of an ancient city pillar that was lost and rediscovered.
17.9585, 102.6157
Manila, Philippines
Bahay Nakpil-Bautista
A century-old ancestral home was home to some of the key figures of the Philippine Revolution.
14.5984, 120.9847
Albany, New York
The Largest Walmart in America
The largest Walmart Supercenter in the United States, referred to affectionately as “Mallmart,” has served the residents of Albany, New York, since 1994.
42.6949, -73.8472
Blackpool, England
Spitfire Visitor Centre
See reconstructed Spitfires and other World War II-era planes in a hangar originally used by the Royal Air Force.
53.7761, -3.0442
Geneva, Switzerland
Café de Paris
The birthplace of a famous steak sauce still keeps its recipe a secret.
46.2093, 6.1438
Coqueza Canton, Bolivia
Coqueza Mummies (Cementerio de Chullpas)
Halfway up a volcano at the edge of the world’s largest salt flats is a cave with seven mummies.
-19.8832, -67.6366
Elburg, Netherlands
Zandverhalen Sandsculpture Museum
One of the largest sandsculpture installations in the world, this exhibit boasts a unique combination of sprawling sand scenes, theological musings, and salvaged shipwrecks.
52.4529, 5.8307
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