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Bosc de Can Ginebreda

Porqueres, Spain

Bosc de Can Ginebreda

A darkly erotic open-air statuary in Catalonia.

The top of the brightly colored church

Quetzaltenango, Guatemala

La Iglesia de San Andres de Xecul

Experiencing Guatemala's sensory-exploding church is a blunt reminder of European influence.

Lotus Temple

New Delhi, India

Bahá'í Lotus Temple

A blooming house of worship for the masses.

Historic West Baden Springs Hotel

West Baden Springs, Indiana

Historic West Baden Springs Hotel

A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks.

A few shade trees along Geiger Key Beach
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Boca Chica, Florida

Geiger Key Abandoned Beach

A nude beach alongside a washed-out road.

A wall of sketchbooks at the Brooklyn Art Library.
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St. Petersburg, Florida

Brooklyn Art Library

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

Chapel of the Holy Cross

Sedona, Arizona

Chapel of the Holy Cross

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Inside the glamorous Victorian interior

Belvedere Tiburon, California

China Cabin

Social saloon from a scrapped trans-Pacific 19th century steamer.

A sailboat cruises the perimeter of the fort

Saint-Georges-d'Oléron, France

Fort Boyard

Fighting the British and making game shows for over 150 years.

Waves lap the shore of Capo Testa (Flickr/Frengo2.0)

Capo Testa, Italy

Capo Testa Rock Formations

Windblown rock formations in an ancient Roman quarry.

Cave Moon, interior galleries

Titulcia, Spain

Cave of the Moon

Mysterious Spanish catacombs of unknown origins.

Cajon Pass on Route 66 (Flickr/JoulesVintage)
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Hesperia, California

Summit Inn Restaurant

The last Americana on Route 66.

Buggy rides at Rockome Gardens (Flickr/Пероша)
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Arcola, Illinois

Rockome Gardens - An Amish Themepark

You were once able to challenge a chicken to tic-tac-toe at this park, which is now converted into the Aikman Wildlife Adventure.

The Massive Darahoa Rooster

Dalat, Vietnam

The Massive Darahoa Rooster

Fowl, love and death in Vietnam.

Well-maintained catacombs exist to this day under the popular City Market

Indianapolis, Indiana

Market Street Catacombs

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

Tourists flock to the buoy (Flickr/Turtle43)

Key West, Florida

Southernmost Point of the Continental U.S.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Ruins of statue heads (Flickr/B Evershed)

Kayadere, Turkey

Nemrut Dagi

Mausoleum and Holy Seat of Antiochus I of Commagene.

Nordlingen

Nördlingen, Germany

Nordlingen

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

A path leads to the One Wood Monastery (Flickr/cod_gabriel)

Frâncești, Romania

One Wood Monastery

A Romanian church built from one single oak.

One of the most famous Hakka villages in Tianloukeng (WikiCommons)

Zhangzhou, China

Fujian Tulou Cluster

Walled family complexes in Southern China.

The stupa entrance (Flickr/druidabruxux)

Min Kun, Myanmar

The Mingun Pagoda and Bell

Gigantic unfinished stupa and the world's 2nd largest bell.

Tuscan countryside and the geothermal creek (Flickr/pedro prats)

Saturnia, Italy

Terme di Saturnia

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

The Castle of Masyaf (Flickr/Samuel Santos)

Masyaf, Syria

Musyaf Castle

The Syrian headquarters of alleged hashish-smoking assassins.

Darkness surrounding the strange countryside home (Flickr/Jsome1)

Moreira do Rei, Portugal

Stone House

A small Portuguese cottage formed between boulders in the countryside.

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