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Durham, North Carolina
Durham Pump Station
36.0575, -78.9629
Versailles, France
Salle du Jeu de Paume
48.8010, 2.1238
Philipstown, New York
Arden Point and Glenclyffe
41.3798, -73.9470
Forest Grove, Oregon
World’s Tallest Barber Pole
45.5261, -123.1114
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Alice Town, Bahamas
Hatchet Bay Cave
A mile-long, three-tiered cave hidden under a Bahamian island, complete with cathedral-like formations, bat colonies, and graffiti going back to the 1870s.
25.3666, -76.5202
Ardroe, Ireland
Rattoo Round Tower
This is the only surviving complete round tower in County Kerry, dating to the 13th century.
52.4425, -9.6504
Wisbech, England
Wisbech & Fenland Museum
This great example of a Victorian museum claims to be the oldest purpose-built museum in the UK.
52.6640, 0.1612
Glen Echo, Maryland
Glen Echo Park Carousel
A merry-go-round that became a rallying point for the early Civil Rights Movement.
38.9664, -77.1382
Dallas, Texas
The Museum of Money
A 28-exhibit museum about the history, culture, and oddities of money. Visitors stand in a cash shower, try to crack a vault, and discover what it's like to barter when no money is allowed.
32.7798, -96.8080
Zapote del Valle, Mexico
El Foco Tonal Saint Germain
An outdoor spiritual site where a strange acoustic phenomenon creates a powerful, hollow echo when you speak from the center of a mosaic circle.
20.3250, -102.7901
Manchester, England
Castlefield Viaduct
A Victorian-era British railway viaduct has been transformed into an elevated garden.
53.4752, -2.2547
Malmö, Sweden
Sven P. Andersson’s Gravestone
The very rock that killed the stonemason marks his grave.
55.6006, 13.0150
Outwell, England
Mullicourt Aqueduct
An aqueduct which carries a natural river over a large artificial drainage channel is thought to be the aqueduct with the lowest headroom in the country.
52.6027, 0.2591
Arixa Ams, Namibia
Brandberg White Lady
An ancient Namibian rock pictograph of a white lady is actually a man.
-21.1107, 14.6626
Baltimore, Maryland
The Clock House
An antiquarian horologist’s mysterious home in Old Goucher.
39.3134, -76.6153
Bramhall, England
Bramall Hall
This iconic building , which is very evocative of the county of Cheshire, is a genuine gem of Tudor, black and white, timber-framed architecture .
53.3734, -2.1676
Barichara, Colombia
The Barichara Paper Workshop
A local workshop makes Japanese-style paper out of everything from papyrus to pineapple leaves.
6.6342, -73.2255
Trieste, Italy
Maria Theresa Thaler
A giant coin serves as a very unusual yet creative monument commemorating one of the most important people in the history of Trieste.
45.6520, 13.7719
Hong Kong
Tsui Sing Lau Pagoda
Hong Kong’s lone surviving ancient pagoda dates back to the 14th century.
22.4488, 114.0062
Bradford, England
Bradford Industrial Museum
A remarkable collection of the machines which this industrial city was dependent upon for both commerce and domestic life.
53.8110, -1.7222
Maputo, Mozambique
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception
It stands out for its elegant white neoclassical design and twin bell towers that define Maputo’s skyline and make it one of the city’s most recognizable landmarks.
-25.9695, 32.5741
Wakefield, England
The Hepworth Wakefield
An art museum dedicated to the sculptor Barbara Hepworth, but it is by no means restricted to her work.
53.6761, -1.4912
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