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34.3221, 7.9400
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Museum of Radio & Technology
38.4011, -82.4731
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Washington, D.C.
Albert Einstein Bronze Statue
The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.
38.8924, -77.0484
Solovetskiy, Russia
Bolshoi Zayatsky Island
No one knows why ancient labyrinths were built on this tiny northern island.
64.9714, 35.6750
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Bicycle Heaven
With 3,000 bikes on display, the world's largest bicycle museum includes some famous rarities.
40.4563, -80.0324
Sárospatak, Hungary
Tengerszem Nature Preserve
An industrial site turned into Hungary's most cherished natural wonder.
48.3571, 21.5729
Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin
World's Heaviest Ball of Twine
Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.
46.4259, -91.6684
Saint Hedwig, Texas
Woman Hollering Creek
A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.
29.4480, -98.1888
Duxbury, Massachusetts
Myles Standish Burial Ground
It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.
42.0251, -70.6874
Wilmington, Delaware
Corporation Trust Center
A drab two-story office space in Delaware is a hidden tax haven for Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and over half the Fortune 500 companies.
39.7484, -75.5477
London, England
Tomb of the Unknown London Girl
The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.
51.5145, -0.0803
New York, New York
Macy's Wooden Escalators
A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.
40.7508, -73.9895
New York, New York
The Wendel House
The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.
40.7521, -73.9823
Waldeck, Germany
The Steeple in the Edersee
A century-long search for a church that was never there.
51.2085, 9.0062
Ireland
The Dry Stone Walls of the Aran Islands
Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.
53.0663, -9.5297
Los Angeles, California
Galápagos Tortoise Skeleton
This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.
34.0169, -118.2888
Boa Vista, Cape Verde
Viana Desert
Rolling sand dunes of the Sahara... in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
16.1376, -22.8660
Vienna, Austria
Karlskirche (St. Charles's Church)
Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.
48.1982, 16.3718
Boa Vista, Cape Verde
Wreckage of M/S Cabo Santa Maria
This ship carrying cargo and four church bells for the Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida ran aground in 1968.
16.2027, -22.8651
Shammar, Mongolia
The Mother Tree
This spiritual landmark for practicers of Shamanism is drenched in milk and vodka and covered in blue scarves.
50.1533, 106.2017
Leadore, Idaho
Birch Creek Charcoal Kilns
These century-old beehive-shaped kilns were built to produce charcoal for nearby mines.
44.3033, -113.0347
Pyongyang, North Korea
Juche Tower
A highly symbolic tower in honor of Supreme Leader Kim Il-sung's personal philosophy.
39.0177, 125.7636
Prague, Czechia
Squat Milada
A former squatter's paradise outside Prague.
50.1171, 14.4438
Đồng Văn, Vietnam
Dong Van Karst Plateau
This striking landscape in northern Vietnam contains both geological and archaeological wonders.
23.2667, 105.3655
Wingdale, New York
Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center
An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.
41.6355, -73.5700
London, England
Strawberry Hill
In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'
51.4388, -0.3343
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