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Phoenix, Arizona

Indian Mesa

Remains of an ancient village perched on top of a remote mesa
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Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

Cathedral Tower

An unfinished revolving restaurant on a church campus towers over suburban Northeast Ohio
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Cambridge, Massachusetts

'Glove Cycle'

Dozens of bronze glove sculptures symbolizing loss and life decorate a busy Cambridge subway station
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Collepardo, Italy

Farmacia della Certosa di Trisulti

Carthusian monks once operated this 18th-century pharmacy, preparing herbal remedies from plants originating in the surrounding mountains
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Bunbeg, Ireland

Cara Na Mara or Eddie's Boat

A fishing trawler that did not even go to sea has been wrecked in Donegal since the 70s
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Basrah, Iraq

The Wreck of the Al-Mansur

Saddam Hussein’s abandoned 1980s mega yacht is scuttled in the Shatt al-Arab waterway, its name meaning “The Victor”
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Moskva, Russia

Perlov Teahouse on Myasnitskaya Street

A tea merchant built a dazzling Chinoiserie mansion in the 1890s to impress a Chinese ambassador
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Cape Town, South Africa

SS Clan Stuart Shipwreck

A 3,500-ton British turret steamer, carrying coal, ran aground here in 1914
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Singapore, Singapore

Tomb of Japanese Engineer Komoto Ekasa

A standalone tombstone dedicated to a fallen civilian Japanese naval engineer
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Wells, England

Statue of Romulus and Remus, Beechbarrow

Somewhere in the fields of Somerset, Rome’s famous legend has been sculpted by an Italian prisoner of war in a German bomb crater
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Singapore, Singapore

Istana Woodneuk

An abandoned Sultan's palace in the middle of a park next to one of Singapore's most popular tourist spots
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El Toboso, Spain

Centro Cervantino

Over 700 editions of Don Quixote are displayed in this museum in the heart of La Mancha
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Albacete, Spain

Monument to the Cutler

Albacete honors the craft that has made the city famous throughout Spain: cutlery
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Quintanar de la Orden, Spain

The Head of the Architect

The bearded, helmeted head carved into this church tower may represent one of the architects who built it
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Moulins, France

Le Jacquemart

This 15th-century belfry is both a symbol of municipal liberties and the tower from which watchmen used to monitor the city of Moulins
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Dalmellington, Scotland

Památník Františka Hekla

A memorial honouring a Czech pilot standing on the bank of Loch Doon
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Gatehouse of Fleet, Scotland

Cally Old School

An old girls school hidden in a wood
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Teruel, Spain

Fonda del Tozal

The oldest inn in Spain
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