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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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Darwen, England
India Mill Chimney
One of the tallest mill chimneys in Lancashire gave up its ornate cast iron "crown" during World War II to assist the war effort.
53.6915, -2.4654
Manaus, Brazil
BiatĂ¼wi
The only restaurant serving indigenous foods from the Amazon.
-3.1338, -60.0294
Palm Beach, Florida
Coral Cut
This spooky road cut through a mound of ancient coral might be haunted by a witch.
26.7414, -80.0398
Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
Hand of Timba
This monument memorializes a violent massacre where colonial police killed 50 striking dockworkers.
11.8572, -15.5807
Montrose, Colorado
Black Canyon of the Gunnison
A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.
38.5749, -107.7703
Penrose, Colorado
Phantom Canyon Road
The narrow mountain road that carves a path between Florence and Victor is tied to ghost towns and ghost stories.
38.5819, -105.1180
Chimney Rock, Colorado
Chimney Rock
Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.
37.1750, -107.3032
Clark, Colorado
Hahn’s Peak Lookout
A long and winding trail through history led to the current iteration of this mountaintop tower.
40.8430, -106.9385
Edinburgh, Scotland
'The Next Big Thing . . . is a Series of Little Things'
A public art piece that barely gets recognized, but then that might be the point.
55.9453, -3.1895
Los Angeles, California
The Bust of Juan Bautista De Anza
Anza led the first Spanish settlers from Mexico to Monterey, California in the 1770s.
34.0610, -118.3675
Ceres, Scotland
Vincenzo Lunardi Commemorative Plaque
A stone memorial marking the location where Scotland's first aeronautical flight landed.
56.2972, -2.9380
Gerlach, Nevada
George W. Lund Petrified Forest
A little-known occurrence of fossil wood in northern Washoe County, Nevada, near the Black Rock Desert.
41.1605, -119.3916
Lindau, Germany
Nobelpreisträger-Steg
A lakeside footbridge that records Nobel Prize laureates' names in metal silhouette.
47.5492, 9.6863
Rapid City, South Dakota
McDonald’s Quarter Pounder Monument
Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!
44.0957, -103.1503
San Antonio, Texas
Grave of Sandra West and Her Ferrari
In 1977, wealthy socialite Sandra West was buried wearing an elegant white nightdress while reclining comfortably in her powder-blue 1964 Ferrari.
29.4199, -98.4693
Castle Dale, Utah
Wedge Overlook
A spectacular overlook of the Little Grand Canyon of the San Rafael River, a deep sandstone gorge streaked with orange, red and white in a remote, uncrowded part of Utah.
39.0984, -110.7491
Shetland Islands, Scotland
Ayres of Swinister
The recurring nature of this geographic feature might make it unique in the world.
60.4336, -1.1906
Menands, New York
Albany Rural Cemetery
The final resting place of President Chester A. Arthur and hundreds of others from Revolutionary War soldiers to poets, politicians, and painters.
42.7016, -73.7168
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