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Fuente de los Niños Miones
20.6767, -103.3429
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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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Fort Nelson, British Columbia
Fort Nelson Heritage Museum
Home to vintage vehicles and local artifacts, this museum also houses a rare taxidermy specimen.
58.8044, -122.7158
Malmö, Sweden
Limhamn Limestone Quarry
This quarry filled with 65 million-year-old limestone is now home to a nature reserve.
55.5665, 12.9308
Mito, Japan
Mito Daiichi High School
An old-fashioned school with interesting grounds and deep history, including the original Mito Castle gate.
36.3725, 140.4833
Chioggia, Italy
St. Andrew Tower Clock (Orologio della Torre di Sant'Andrea)
One of the oldest still-working clocks in the world sits on an ancient tower.
45.2213, 12.2798
Glasgow, Scotland
Clydeside Expressway Mural Wall
Vibrant paintings stretch across 600 feet of derelict railway.
55.8645, -4.2996
Mkhomazi Wilderness area, South Africa
Sani Pass
Brace yourself for the slowest, scariest, most spectacular drive, down the Drakensberg Escarpment.
-29.6029, 29.3392
Rome, Italy
Madama Lucrezia
This statue is the only female representation of Rome's "talking statues."
41.8957, 12.4813
Brooklyn, New York
Gravesend
Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.
40.5947, -73.9745
Cologne, Germany
Cologne Central Mosque
The largest mosque in Germany.
50.9457, 6.9284
Belen, New Mexico
Through the Flower Art Space
A home base for Judy Chicago, one of America's leading radical feminist artists.
34.6595, -106.7691
FinspĂ¥ng NO, Sweden
Site of Doverstorp Refugee Camp
A few crumbling buildings and the occasional pipe sticking out of the ground are all that remains of the largest refugee camp in Sweden during World War II.
58.6422, 15.8558
Greece
The Lion of Chaeronea
Τhis feline monument commemorates fallen soldiers on a field that saw many, many battles.
38.4949, 22.8483
Mercogliano, Italy
Montevergine Sanctuary
During World War II, the Shroud of Turin was secreted to this remote southern Italian complex.
40.9367, 14.7284
Cervantes, Australia
Lake Thetis
One of the few places in the world home to living stromatolites.
-30.5072, 115.0806
Newington, Connecticut
Cedarcrest Hospital
An overgrown and abandoned tuberculosis ward resides in the midst of a quaint modern neighborhood.
41.7045, -72.7068
Falkirk, Scotland
Forbes Mausoleum
This abandoned mausoleum from 1815 sits deep within the forest surrounding Callendar House.
55.9913, -3.7587
Hove, England
Everest's Grave
An unassuming churchyard is the resting place of a pioneering surveyor and reluctant namesake of a mountain.
50.8283, -0.1744
Lorton, Virginia
Laurel Hill House
Standing for over 200 years, the abandoned home of a Revolutionary War hero and later a succession of prison superintendents.
38.7095, -77.2338
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