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Ireland

Fanny O’Deas

One of Ireland’s oldest family-run pubs, with a unique feature.
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Chicago, Illinois

McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum

The only Chicago bridgehouse open to the public contains a museum devoted to the Chicago River.
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Muncie, Indiana

The Passing of the Buffalo

This statue of a Native American figure forlornly looking at the passing of a way life has been on the move.
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Paris, France

Villa Seurat

This charming, flower-filled, paved cul-de-sac is filled with artists' studio-houses built in the 1920s.
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Cabo San Pablo, Argentina

El Desdemona Shipwreck

A remote shipwreck at the end of the world.
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Berlin, Germany

Aufbau der Republik

One of the best-preserved pieces of DDR propaganda in Berlin.
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Freeport, Maine

Maine Beer Company

Suspended from this brewery’s tasting room ceiling is a full-sized fin whale skeleton.
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South Hero, Vermont

Lake Champlain Causeway

This rail trail culminates in a three-mile land bridge only accessible to cyclists and pedestrians.
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Itabashi City, Japan

Dagashiya Game Museum

This time capsule lets you enjoy decades-old Japanese arcade games.
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Badrshein, Egypt

The Tomb of Ni-Ankh-Khnum and Khnum-Hotep

In 2400 BC, two male hairstylists decided to spend eternity together. But maybe they were just friends?
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana

LSU Campus Mounds

These 11,000-year-old mounds may be the oldest known human-made structures in the Americas.
Added by machellerella
Schleiden, Germany

Wollseifen Village

An eerie ghost village hidden in the forests of the Eifel, frozen in a strange postwar limbo.
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Drammen, Norway

Drammen Spiral

A marvel of engineering, this road ascends a Norwegian hill through six spirals inside of it.
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Cidade Velha, Cabo Verde

Forte Real de São Filipe

The defense built to protect one of the last found pieces of land on Earth.
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Tozawa, Japan

Tozawa Goryeo Hall

A roadside stop offers a taste of Korean culture.
Added by camcayer
Houston, Texas

Old ‘Hanging’ Oak

A 400-year-old live oak tree with a fictitiously morbid past.
Added by andresbernal1982
Mérida, Spain

Puente Romano

A Roman bridge closed to car traffic in the 1990s now open to foot traffic.
Added by sipes2300
Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Yogyakarta Station Steam Locomotive Monument

A preserved ancient Marshall Britannia steam locomotive on display at a train station.
Added by giampersa