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Fuente de los Niños Miones
20.6767, -103.3429
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Tarrafal Concentration Camp
15.2635, -23.7437
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Al Qasr Al Ghamedh (Al Qassimi Palace)
25.7421, 55.9361
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Statue of Lord Laddu Gopal
27.1951, 78.0212
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Miami Beach, Florida
The Rainbow Crosswalk
This Ocean Drive crosswalk has been paved in rainbow colors to honor the LGBTQ+ community and the man who brought pastel to Miami Beach.
25.7827, -80.1301
Hastings, England
Marine Court
This seaside property, an example of Art Deco Streamline Moderne style, was designed to embody the curves of a great ship.
50.8511, 0.5571
Leuven, Belgium
Museum voor Dierkunde
This 19th-century zoological collection has withstood the test of time.
50.8760, 4.7013
Geneva, Illinois
Easy Chair Grave
This carved armchair marks the final resting place for two pals in the Chicago suburbs.
41.8959, -88.2974
Mitaka, Japan
National Astronomy Observatory Japan Mitaka Campus
The headquarters of one of Japan’s leading astronomy research institutions features several historic observatory facilities and a 2,000-year-old burial mound.
35.6754, 139.5369
Tangier, Morocco
Tangier Seaside Cliff Steps
Known to backpackers as the "Steps of Doom," this walkway carved into the side of a seaside cliff leads to the Roman Tombs.
35.7947, -5.8282
Valley Falls, Oregon
Lake Abert
Oregon's only closed-basin hypersaline lake, an important stopover for migrating waterfowl, is in danger of drying up completely.
42.6308, -120.2306
Castricum, Netherlands
De Kwal (The Jellyfish)
This jellyfish provides clean water for an entire Dutch province.
52.5413, 4.6171
Milan, Italy
Ear of Vicolo Gazzana
A small sculpture that pays homage to the famous bronze ear of Ca de l'Oreggia—or does it?
45.4607, 9.1752
Kent, Sierra Leone
Firing Point
On an idyllic island off the coast of Sierra Leone, remnants of the defense of the slave trade and its later abolition.
8.1395, -13.1932
Neo Chorio, Cyprus
Aphrodite's Bath
Legend holds that the Ancient Greek goddess of love once bathed in the waters of this grotto.
35.0564, 32.3439
Bolton, North Carolina
Grahamland Attractions
Hundreds of fiberglass structures line the side of the road in the middle of nowhere.
34.3171, -78.2431
Duvauchelle, New Zealand
ÅŒnawe Peninsula
A peninsula on a peninsula that becomes an island at high tide.
-43.7748, 172.9262
Glasgow, Scotland
George Square Imperial Measurements
A small collection of objects of a bygone era hide in plain view.
55.8607, -4.2490
Belgrade, Serbia
We Were Just Children
Memorial to the 89 children killed during the NATO bombing of Serbia.
44.8089, 20.4714
Milan, Italy
Dancing Bull of Good Fortune
Third time's a charm, or in this case, two testicles are.
45.4656, 9.1896
Bisley, England
Holy Well of St. John the Baptist
This holy spring and its well have been the site of religious devotion for millennia.
51.3265, -0.6290
Henfield, England
The Cat House
This Tudor cottage is adorned with many canary-clasping cats, which originally served as a reminder to a local clergyman of his pet's murderous ways.
50.9326, -0.2755
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