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The rock obelisk at Rugby, North Dakota.
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Rugby, North Dakota
The Geographical Center of North America
A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.
SS Richard Montgomery's eerie masts at low tide
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England
Wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery
No one is sure what to do with this WWII shipwreck that sits at the bottom of the Thames, still loaded with tons of explosives.
The bigger Triptych
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Ternant, France
Triptyques de Ternant
A small village church is home to two extraordinary triptych altarpieces that date back to the 15th century.
Moses with tablets of the Ten Commandments, painting by Rembrandt, 1659. (Wikimedia Commons)
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Saudi Arabia
Mount Horeb
Site where Moses may have received the Ten Commandments.
Monument to Enemas.
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Zheleznovodsk, Russia
Monument to Enemas
Russian spa's bronze monument to enemas.
Gurun Electric Converter Temple.
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Gurun, Malaysia
Gurun Electric Converter Temple
Temple-like building holds power equipment.
Giorgi's Furnace. (Sandra Ancelot/Atlas Obscura)
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Ferentino, Italy
Giorgi's Furnace
Production site for handmade clay bricks.
The tombstone of Beauford Delaney at the Parisian Cemetery of Thiais in Thiais, France.
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Thiais, France
Grave of Beauford Delaney
The formerly unmarked grave of the noted Black American painter, who was a friend to James Baldwin.
Ancient round barrow in an unlikely spot.
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Cambridge, England
Fourwentways Bronze Age Cemetery
A 4,000-year-old burial site hides behind a roadside Burger King.
A view of the ship mill.
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Revere, Italy
Revere's Ship Mill (Mulino natante di Revere)
The last working ship mill in Italy, once widespread on major rivers in whole Europe
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