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Stones for the guilotine

Paris, France

Remnants of the Paris Guillotine

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

'Gulliver's Travels' (1804)
Permanently Closed

Dublin, Ireland

Dublin Writers Museum

This museum is dedicated to the most famous Irish writers in history.

View of The Great South Wall from Dublin Bay.

Dublin, Ireland

The Great South Wall

The Dublin sea wall draws walkers, photographers, and fishing enthusiasts.

One Blue Sky Mural

Biddeford, Maine

One Blue Sky Mural

A mural of a boy making a phone call connects a southern Maine community to a town in Iraq.

The Old Man of Shore Road can be tricky to spot.

Cape Elizabeth, Maine

The Old Man of Shore Road

A natural rock silhouette on Cape Elizabeth's scenic Shore Road, reminiscent of New Hampshire's "Old Man of the Mountain."

The Abyssinian Meeting House is the third-oldest standing African American worship center  in the U.S.

Portland, Maine

Abyssinian Meeting House

This once-forgotten African American cultural hub was an important stop on the Underground Railroad.

'Pinecone' in Deering Oaks Park celebrates artistry within the city and pays homage to the art community in Portland.

Portland, Maine

'Pinecone'

An eight-foot-long pine cone made out of 140 recycled steel shovels is an homage to Maine's state flower.

Twinings tea shop on the Strand.

London, England

Twinings Tea Shop

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

View of Silo City and Elevator Alley from the Ohio Street Lift Bridge.

Buffalo, New York

Silo City

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

The front entrance along Niagara Square

Buffalo, New York

Buffalo City Hall

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

Brock's Monument

Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario

Brock's Monument

This seemingly cursed monument is dedicated to one of Canada's great war heroes.

Edward Dean Adams Power Station

Niagara Falls, New York

Edward Dean Adams Power Plant

Genesis of modern hydroelectric power.

The view from the end of the tunnel to the platform

Niagara Falls, Ontario

The Tunnel at Niagara Parks Power Station

A tunnel that brings more than a century of history to life from the deepest parts of the Niagara Gorge.

Skippy

Boston, Massachusetts

'Frogs in Common'

Created by a local artist, these quirky sculptures each have their own names and personalities.

The world's largest air-insulated Van de Graaff generator demonstrates the power of electricity.

Boston, Massachusetts

World's Largest Air-Insulated Van de Graaff Generator

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

An evocation of the schooner Wyoming.

Bath, Maine

Wyoming Sculpture

One of the largest wooden ships ever built is honored by a steel sculpture evoking her once-superlative scale.

Tesla monument at Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls, Ontario

Niagara Tesla Monument

Niagara Falls holds a special place in Nikola Tesla's history, so they put a statue on it.

Clifton Hill

Niagara Falls, Ontario

Clifton Hill

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

View of the New Town Hall and the Glockenspiel

Munich, Germany

Rathaus-Glockenspiel

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Green Lake

Tal, Austria

Green Lake

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

Wiener Pestsäule (Vienna Plague Column)

Vienna, Austria

Wiener Pestsäule (Vienna Plague Column)

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

One of the larger abandoned homes

Kerry, Ireland

Great Blasket Island

Just a few miles off the western coast of Ireland lies an isle steeped in Irish literary history.

A view of All Veterans Memorial Park.

Emporia, Kansas

All Veterans Memorial Park

A park to honor all U.S. Armed Forces veterans, and Emporia's status as the founding city of Veterans Day.

Parking structure and church (Photo: Matalin Patel)

Cleveland, Ohio

Church of the Holy Parking Structure

On the upper deck of this church-owned parking garage stand eight pillars topped with different Catholic saints.

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