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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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Chicago, Illinois
Nike Missile Site C-44
A relic of the Cold War in Chicago.
41.6763, -87.5278
Rome, Georgia
The Labyrinth of Rome
This labyrinth was designed to help visitors focus and meditate.
34.2624, -85.1670
Mumbai, India
Afghan Church
A 19th-century church in South Mumbai built to commemorate those who died in the First Anglo-Afghan War and the retreat from Kabul in 1842.
18.9065, 72.8162
Täby Kyrkby, Sweden
Fällbro Runestone (Uppland Runic Inscription Fv1946;258)
This Viking Age memorial contains the oldest known image of a Täby resident.
59.4837, 18.0149
Shrewsbury, Vermont
Clarendon Gorge Bridge
A cable-suspension footbridge that hangs high above the Mill River.
43.5212, -72.9255
Etten-Leur, Netherlands
The Van Gogh Church
Stained-glass windows inspired by Vincent van Gogh's paintings decorate this church in the town where the artist's career began.
51.5692, 4.6351
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Cactus Club
This storied music venue was once a tavern that housed an Italian Anarchist book club and prohibition parties; today it's a community space for artists and musicians.
42.9989, -87.8903
Reguengo do Fetal, Portugal
Pan Am Billboard
Some 4,000 individual tiles make up this striking blue billboard from the golden age of air travel.
39.6462, -8.7569
Jacksonville, Florida
Chamblin Bookmine
A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.
30.2764, -81.7190
Schenectady, New York
Nott Memorial
This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.
42.8173, -73.9300
Larne, Northern Ireland
Kilcoan Gardens
Located on the Islandmagee peninsula, these gardens are among the most distinguished in County Antrim.
54.8150, -5.7189
Lancashire, England
Cromwell's Bridge
Oliver Cromwell marched his army over this narrow bridge to victory at the Battle of Preston in 1648.
53.8478, -2.4512
Alcoa, Tennessee
Millennium Manor Castle
One man’s religious convictions led him to build this stone castle meant to withstand an apocalypse.
35.7803, -83.9653
Alcaria, Portugal
FĂ³rnea de Porto de MĂ³s
A naturally occurring amphitheater carved by erosion into the mountainside.
39.5571, -8.8078
Atlanta, Georgia
Michael C. Carlos Museum
Located on the campus of Emory University, this museum is filled with objects from the Americas to ancient Greece.
33.7904, -84.3242
Okinawa, Japan
Hacksaw Ridge
A World War II battle site made famous by one man's heroic actions.
26.2487, 127.7290
Washington, D.C.
James C. Dent House
Now a living classroom, this house was once the home of Reverend James Clinton Dent, a formerly enslaved man and a pastor.
38.8706, -77.0135
La Palma, Spain
Real Santuario Insular de Nuestra Señora de las Nieves (Royal Island Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Snows)
The oldest Marian image in the Canary Islands still impresses people nearly half a millennium later.
28.6943, -17.7822
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