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20.6767, -103.3429
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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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Robin Hood's Bay, England
The R.N.L.I Fish
This coin collecting cod is over 130 years old, and the United Kingdom's smallest listed structure.
54.4302, -0.5323
Lido, Italy
Vartanush
Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.
45.4123, 12.3617
Chicago, Illinois
Calumet Fisheries
One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.
41.7227, -87.5440
Tokyo, Japan
Harukor
Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.
35.6998, 139.6999
Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia
Manyate Coffee Village
An Ethiopian cloud forest protects some of the last wild arabica plants.
6.5220, 39.2376
Lindesnes, Norway
Under
The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.
58.0398, 7.1518
Palermo, Italy
Qanat di Palermo
A network of underground water channels that dates back to the Middle Ages.
38.1418, 13.3441
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Van Nelle Factory
An icon of International Style architecture on the outskirts of Rotterdam.
51.9232, 4.4335
La Palma, Spain
Dragos Gemelos
Behind this pair of dragon trees, there is a tragic story of lost love.
28.6483, -17.7877
PeenemĂ¼nde, Germany
Maritime Museum PeenemĂ¼nde U-461
This 1960's Soviet submarine in PeenemĂ¼nde Harbor claims to be the largest submarine museum in the world.
54.1349, 13.7667
South Hobart, Australia
The Cascades Female Factory
The forgotten and tragic story of the thousands of female convicts forcibly transported to Tasmania is told inside the ruins of this notorious 19th-century workhouse.
-42.8939, 147.2993
Fort Dodge, Iowa
The "Real" Cardiff Giant
Hidden in the grounds of the Fort Dodge Museum is a "real" and terrifying petrified giant.
42.4889, -94.1994
Venice, Italy
Attila's Throne
An island on the Venetian Lagoon hosts this stone chair that has nothing to do with the King of the Huns.
45.4984, 12.4182
Killin, Scotland
Falls Of Dochart
Cascading waterfalls mark the gateway to the ancient burial place of Clan Macnab.
56.4624, -4.3206
Tainan City, Taiwan
Saba Milkfish Museum
A small museum dedicated to one of the most popular fish in Taiwanese cuisine.
22.9832, 120.1558
El Hierro, Spain
Ecomuseo de Guinea (Ethnographic Museum of Guinea)
An open-air museum showing how people on El Hierro lived from the time of the first settlers until the late 20th century.
27.7743, -17.9990
Merek, Indonesia
Sipiso-piso Waterfall
One of Indonesia's tallest, this waterfall takes a 390-foot plunge into the Lake Toba caldera.
2.9165, 98.5195
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
The Baker House
This lakefront cottage was crafted in the 1800s and was once a sanitorium.
42.5887, -88.4325
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