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Sumter, South Carolina

Swan Lake Iris Gardens

This park is home to all 8 swan species, and also has extensive plantings of Japanese Iris.
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Newtown, Australia

Tomb of the Dunbar Victims

This cemetery holds the unidentified remains from a wreck sometimes known as “Australia’s Titanic.”
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Battle Ground, Indiana

Tippecanoe Battlefield Museum

Victory on this battlefield catapulted William Henry Harrison to the presidency in 1840.
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Stockport, England

Mellor Mill

The remains of what was once the world’s largest spinning mill.
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Takachiho, Japan

Takachiho Gorge

Row through this enchanted narrow chasm whose stones are said to resemble dragon scales.
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Hong Kong

So Lo Pun

One of the Hakka "ghost villages" of Plover Cove famed for its haunted locked compass legend.
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Kamakura, Japan

Grave of Akira Kurosawa

Japan's legendary filmmaker is interred in a small graveyard in a similarly modest temple in Kamakura.
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Bishnupur, India

Keibul Lamjao

This is the world's only floating national park, and the last natural home of the majestic sangai deer.
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Hawley, Massachusetts

Hawley Beehive Kiln

The oldest flagstone charcoal kiln in New England serves as a reminder of the importance of land conservation and sustainability.
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Madagascar

Tsingy Rouge

The Great Tsingy has a smaller, rose-colored cousin.
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Ishinomaki, Japan

Kadonowaki Elementary School Ruins

A school destroyed by fire and tsunami simultaneously is preserved as a memorial.
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San Francisco, California

Cable Car Carpentry Shop

The only place in the world where vehicles for an obsolete form of transportation are still built.
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Amasya, Turkey

The Amasya Mummies

A rare group of seven-century-old mummies preserved in astonishing detail.
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Snow Hill, Maryland

Furnace Town

A living history village recreates a vanished 19th century community.
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Eyam, England

The Eyam Plague Cottages

These once housed the families who decided in 1665 to quarantine themselves to save their neighbours.
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Cologne, Germany

Heinzelmännchenbrunnen

This 19th-century fountain features sculptures of little gnomes that help with chores.
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Roslyn, South Dakota

International Vinegar Museum

A museum dedicated to all things vinegar in rural South Dakota.
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Kumbor, Montenegro

Abandoned Submarine Tunnels

Relics designed to contain and conceal Yugoslavian submarines.
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