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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Annual Reminder Marker

Where some of America's earliest LGBTQ rights protests marched each Fourth of July
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Pozo Negro, Spain

Poblado de la Atalayita (Village of Atalayita)

Stone dwellings of the Mahos, Fuerteventura's original inhabitants
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Chattanooga, Tennessee

Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum

Vintage steam trains that still run through a pre-Civil War tunnel
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St. Augustine, Florida

Lightner Museum

A Gilded Age hotel turned eclectic museum of Tiffany glass and curiosities
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St. Augustine, Florida

Historic Public Market

A market building entangled in St. Augustine's history of slavery and civil rights protest
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Barcelona, Spain

General Archive of the Crown of Aragon

A medieval palace holding a millennium of the Crown of Aragon's records
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Churriana, Spain

Museo Aeronáutico de Málaga

Vintage aircraft in the original 1948 terminal of Malaga's airport
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Mexico City, Mexico

Monumento al Mestizaje

A haunting monument to the origins of Mexico's cultural origins
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São Paulo, Brazil

Parque Estadual Cantareira

One of the world's largest urban rainforests with a spectacular panorama of Sao Paulo city and monkeys awaits visitors
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Mexico City, Mexico

Museo de Historia Natural y Cultura Ambiental

Mexico City's natural history museum has seen better days but still holds some enchanting treasures within its kitsch walls
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Herxheim bei Landau/Pfalz, Germany

The Herxheim Death Ritual Skeletons

Inside the Herxheim museum can be seen the horrifying remains of what were probably the victims of acts of prehistoric mass cannibalism
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Berlin, Germany

Knautschke

A war-scarred hippo calf nursed from the ruins into a symbol of Berlin resilience
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Enschede, Netherlands

Donner Max Mario

If Mario ever ended up in witness protection, this would be where
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Göttingen, Germany

The House of Gauss

The first house of Gauss
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El Jesús, Spain

Porís de Candelaria

A small fishing village hidden inside a rocky cave overlooking the sea
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Uddevalla, Sweden

Karl XII's Oak

A monumental oak commemorated for King Karl XII allegedly relieving himself against it
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Fanling, Hong Kong

Burma Lines Hindu Gurkha Temple

This other-worldly, lotus-shaped temple was a place of worship for Gurkha soldiers in the colonial British army
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Catania, Italy

Porta Garibaldi

This elegant black and white striped arch is emblematic of Catania's resilience to natural disasters
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