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Fuente de los Niños Miones
20.6767, -103.3429
ChĂ£o Bom, Cabo Verde
Tarrafal Concentration Camp
15.2635, -23.7437
Ras Al-Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
Al Qasr Al Ghamedh (Al Qassimi Palace)
25.7421, 55.9361
Agra, India
Statue of Lord Laddu Gopal
27.1951, 78.0212
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Jelgava, Latvia
The Family Vault of the Dukes of Courland
The Jelgava Palace holds one of the few burial places of governor’s dynasties that is open to the public.
56.6553, 23.7339
Xilitla, Mexico
Leonora Carrington Museum
This dreamlike museum is filled with the works of an influential surrealist artist whose name you may have never heard.
21.3854, -98.9907
Nashville, Tennessee
Lane Motor Museum
Located inside a former bread factory, this museum explores a century of transportation history through innovations that were extraordinary or failures—sometimes both.
36.1402, -86.7346
Melbourne, Australia
Australian Nurses Memorial
A poignant memorial to remember the Australian nurses who lost their lives during the Second World War.
-37.8387, 144.9771
Mantua, Italy
Imprisoned Bell Tower
Inside the small garden of two mid-century apartment buildings stands a centuries-old bell tower, separated from its original church and hidden from view.
45.1492, 10.7967
Penrhyndeudraeth, Wales
Dyffryn Ardudwy Burial Chambers
Neolithic burial chambers hidden beside a village school.
52.7847, -4.0950
Eamont Bridge, England
Mayburgh Henge
An impressive Neolithic henge with banks nearly 10 feet high.
54.6487, -2.7468
London, England
Christchurch Greyfriars Church Garden
The ruins of a church destroyed by both the Great Fire of London and the Blitz, now turned into a peaceful garden.
51.5158, -0.0996
Brandy Station, Virginia
Fleetwood Church
This abandoned church languishing for decades is now one man's passion project and subject of paranormal investigators.
38.5028, -77.8901
Vale de Nogueiras, Portugal
SantuĂ¡rio Rupestre de PanĂ³ias (Panoias Sanctuary)
This Gallo-Roman sanctuary is dedicated to SerĂ¡pis, god of the underworld.
41.2829, -7.6822
Shreveport, Louisiana
Ogilvie-Wiener Mansion
From a supper club to a gay bar to an HBO shooting location, this 125-year-old Victorian mansion has lived many lives.
32.5063, -93.7542
Hamburg, Germany
'Luchs'
A charming and enigmatic sculpture of a lynx haunts the park of Kellinghusen.
53.5885, 9.9882
New Orleans, Louisiana
Bevolo Gas & Electric Light Museum
This quaint museum in a long-running workshop is dedicated to a fixture in New Orleans lighting.
29.9552, -90.0671
Brunswick, Australia
King Leonidas Statue
This statue commemorates a special connection between ancient Greece and the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick.
-37.7665, 144.9620
West Glacier, Montana
Lake McDonald
Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.
48.5832, -113.9256
Nuremberg, Germany
'Der Hase'
This strange sculpture depicts a giant nightmare hare crushing a man to death beneath its colossal bulk.
49.4574, 11.0742
Union, Illinois
Illinois Railway Museum
At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.
42.2278, -88.5286
Tallinn, Estonia
'Cromatico'
This set of concrete chambers resonates according to different notes of octaves.
59.4454, 24.8110
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