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Tây Sơn, Vietnam
Quang Trung Museum
13.9206, 108.9208
Alcalá de Henares, Spain
Laredo’s Palace
40.4879, -3.3639
Chilliwack, British Columbia
Hazelnut Inn
49.0817, -122.0510
Aurora, Colorado
Melvin-Lewis Pioneer Cemetery
39.6157, -104.8162
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Dresden, Germany
Gedenkstein Melitta Bentz
Memorial for the woman who invented the coffee filter
51.0889, 13.7151
Centro, Mexico
Art Toys Museum
Inside this small, innocuous museum is a vast collection of rare action figures assembled by a group of dedicated collectors
19.4142, -99.1449
Poppenhausen, Germany
Liebesweg (Love Lane) Poppenhausen
a short hiking tour, especially for couples, in a village with a „matching“ name
50.4820, 9.8714
Shebbear, England
Devil’s Stone
Each November, this one-tonne stone is turned over, trapping the devil beneath it for another year
50.8616, -4.2195
Giessen, Germany
Grave of Stefan Bellof
Last resting place for the Formula 1 Racing Driver who was the idol of legendary racing driver Michael Schumacher
50.6030, 8.6860
Pohlheim, Germany
Kleinkastell Holzheimer Unterwald
excavated small Roman castle in the woods close to Pohlheim
50.4999, 8.6996
Kramsach, Austria
Museumsfriedhof Kramsach
Cemetery with no dead, but a collection of exceptionally irreverent funerary monuments, site of the World Peace Cross and the world's most monumental Danse Macabre
47.4351, 11.8709
Ludwigslust, Germany
Gedenkstein Major Arthur Donald Nicholson
Memorial for the last casualty of the Cold War, causing the last major crisis of the Cold War
53.2946, 11.5099
Madrid, Spain
Cerro de los Ángeles. Remains of the Old Sacred Heart
The ruins of the Sacred Heart Memorial, which was first “shot” by a weird firing squad and then dynamited during the Spanish Civil War
40.3095, -3.6852
Bremen, Germany
Container Observation Tower
A lookout built from shipping containers with a rare view into the harbor’s busy machinery.
53.5706, 8.5511
Kollmitzdörfl, Austria
Klinger-Mausoleum
A strange building in the woods connected to a tragic love story
48.8295, 15.5369
Point Cook, Australia
RAAF Base Point Cook and RAAF Museum
The oldest continually operating military airfield in the world
-37.9309, 144.7486
Wabash, Indiana
Paradise Spring Historical Park
A reconstructed historical park where a treaty was signed in 1826 between the United States government and the Miami and Potawatomi Indian tribes
40.7968, -85.8156
Little Dunkeld, Scotland
Niel Gow Statue
A site paying tribute to an 18th century Scottish fiddler
56.5615, -3.5848
Allentown, Pennsylvania
Metallurgical Worker and Metallurgical Science Statues
Bronze guardians of steel’s glory, now standing outside the Allentown Art Museum
40.6033, -75.4681
Eivissa, Spain
Monument to the Hippies
This sculpture shows an iconic image typical of Ibiza that, however, did not take place here
38.9103, 1.4355
Easton, Pennsylvania
Easton’s Crayola Crayons and Markers Statues
The birthplace of the beloved colorful crayons right in downtown Easton
40.6910, -75.2097
Galveston, Texas
Rainforest Cafe River Adventure Ride
A venerable restaurant chain's one-off attempt to blur the line between themed eatery and amusement park
29.2711, -94.8198
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