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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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Osaka, Japan
Nobunaga Daimyōjin
A Japanese fertility god in the shape of a large phallus.
34.6609, 135.5056
West Lafayette, Indiana
The Voss Model
A Fibonnaci spiral model of our solar system.
40.4218, -86.9228
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Albert Kahn Museum
The Musée Albert-Kahn is a departmental museum in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, including four hectares of gardens, joining landscape scenes of various national traditions.
48.8412, 2.2285
Rome, Italy
The Catacombs of Priscilla
See one of the earliest depictions of a Christian ceremony – with a woman at the center!
41.9297, 12.5087
Konin, Poland
Konin Milepost
Oldest surviving milestone in Europe outside of the Roman Empire.
52.2096, 18.2546
Glastonbury, England
Library of Avalon
A lending library of all possible categories of esoteric literature.
51.1472, -2.7175
Memphis, Tennessee
The Beale Street Hoodoo History and Folklife Museum
The only museum in North America dedicated to Memphis hoodoo history.
35.1396, -90.0528
Morgan City, Louisiana
Rig Museum
The only place in the world where the general public can walk aboard an authentic offshore drilling rig.
29.6912, -91.2097
Tokyo, Japan
Enkiri Enoki
A small shrine run entirely by vending machines.
35.7596, 139.7077
Lusaka, Zambia
Embassy Park
All your favorite presidents of Zambia, in one convenient spot.
-15.4218, 28.3093
Alexandria, Egypt
The Catacombs of Kom El Shoqafa
A subterranean necropolis blending Egyptian, Hellenic, and Roman traditions and art styles.
31.1787, 29.8931
Brantford, Ontario
Alexander Graham Bell Statue
An imposing, larger-than-life statue of Alexander Graham Bell sits at the entrance of the Bell Telephone Company office.
43.1415, -80.2643
Bamburgh, England
St Aiden’s Church and Crypt
A church instrumental in the spreading of Christianity in England and the final resting place of hundreds of Saxons.
55.6079, -1.7186
West End, Australia
Gas Stripping Tower
A heritage-listed, cast-iron tower that was used for stripping out components of raw coal gas.
-27.4792, 153.0027
Berlin, Germany
Boros Collection
Art and concrete merge into a single entity within a WWII bunker that possesses a deeply storied and turbulent history.
52.5234, 13.3846
England
Top Withens
A ruined farmhouse that inspired an (inaccurate) illustration for Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel “Wuthering Heights.”
53.8148, -2.0299
Brantford, Ontario
Bell Homestead
The telephone was first conceived here in 1874 by Alexander Graham Bell.
43.1079, -80.2708
Appleton, Wisconsin
Outagamie County Asylum Cemetery
This cemetery holds the bodies of at least 133 former patients.
44.2788, -88.4611
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