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Franklin, Pennsylvania
St. John's Episcopal Church
41.3958, -79.8289
De Pere, Wisconsin
Frank & Nancy’s Marine Corps Museum
44.4595, -88.2140
Luarca, Spain
Giant Squid Museum
43.5410, -6.5389
Mumbai, India
The Old Limestone Arch
18.9688, 72.8039
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Staten Island, New York
National Lighthouse Museum
This stately brick building once provided supplies and equipment to lighthouses across the northeast during the 19th and 20th centuries.
40.6408, -74.0735
Berlin, Germany
Mäusebunker
Along the banks of the Teltow Canal in southwestern Berlin stands one of the city’s most controversial buildings, a hulking Brutalist laboratory that looks more like a warship than a research facility.
52.4366, 13.3169
Gothenburg, Sweden
The Devil on Linnégatan
A devilish mask still mocks a king’s rumored love nest across the street.
57.6977, 11.9516
Hong Kong
Sham Shui Po Public Dispensary
Is this Art Deco-style building the world’s prettiest methadone clinic?
22.3267, 114.1617
Cary, North Carolina
WPTF AM Radio Building
This old radio building from the 1930s inspired the WSQK radio station featured in the last season of “Stranger Things.”
35.7911, -78.7611
Kourou, French Guiana
The Guiana Space Centre
Europe’s only spaceport is in South America.
5.1694, -52.6842
Sambhar, India
Sambhar Lake
India’s largest inland salt lake, whose blinding white salt flats create one of the most surreal landscapes in the Thar Desert.
26.9042, 75.1795
Norristown, Pennsylvania
Norristown State Hospital
Originally known as the State Lunatic Hospital at Norristown, this campus stands as a fascinating piece of medical history.
40.1316, -75.3443
Chicago, Illinois
The Red Foot
A unique 3-D sculpture based on Rene Magritte’s “The Red Model.”
41.8945, -87.6258
Wellington, Florida
The Wellington Wind Phone
Honor lost loved ones at this serene wind phone hidden in an environmental preserve.
26.6300, -80.3010
Mossel Bay, South Africa
Point of Human Origin
A cave that was home to humans 160 thousand years ago.
-34.2053, 22.0904
Austin, Texas
Ego’s Karaoke Bar
Austin’s beloved dive bar and karaoke headquarters where relaxed drinks and high-energy singalongs have defined nights on South Congress for decades
Sponsored By Visit Austin
Austin, Texas
Hyperreal Film Club
A clubhouse for film lovers that turns uncommon cinema into community in East Austin
Sponsored By Visit Austin
Kenner, Louisiana
Veterans ‘Century of Sentries’ Park
A park dedicated to veterans with various military vehicles, including an F-14 Tomcat, in the middle of the suburbs.
29.9911, -90.2423
Little Rock, Arkansas
The Empress of Little Rock
The finest example of Gothic Queen Anne Architecture in the U.S. was built out of rivalry and spite.
34.7280, -92.2753
Kroměříž, Czechia
Baroque Cemetery
A unique Baroque monument that creates a fascinating “theater of memory” focused on the themes of human transience and the hope for resurrection.
49.1405, 17.2146
Trollhättan, Sweden
Luffar-Lasse Roundabout
A mosaic tribute to a hitchhiking cat turned national celebrity.
58.3136, 12.2959
Belle Vue, Saint Lucia
Piton Falls
A volcanically-heated waterfall in the St. Lucian rainforest.
13.8370, -61.0614
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