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41.6658, -86.1845
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38.8706, -77.0687
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The Ice Age Erratics of Füssen
47.5681, 10.6981
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Gator Country
29.9295, -94.2744
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Rome, Italy
Mussolini's Balcony
The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.
41.8963, 12.4808
Dublin, Ireland
Dublin General Post Office
The modern birthplace of Irish freedom.
53.3493, -6.2611
Dublin, Ireland
Dublin's Garden of Remembrance
Amidst the bustling streets of Dublin, there is a hushed garden that is dedicated to "All those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom."
53.3539, -6.2641
Dublin, Ireland
The Famine Memorial in Dublin
The somber sculptures commemorating Irish Famine on the river Liffey in Dublin.
53.3480, -6.2501
Dublin, Ireland
National Leprechaun Museum
A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.
53.3469, -6.2658
Houston, Texas
The Hobbit Café
A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.
29.7339, -95.4148
Austin, Texas
Uncommon Objects
One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.
30.2291, -97.7830
Sulphur Springs, Texas
Glass Bathrooms of Sulphur Springs
Known as one of America's most beautiful public restrooms.
33.1379, -95.6012
Little Rock, Arkansas
Billy Bass Adoption Center
Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.
34.7474, -92.2653
Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth Stockyards
Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.
32.7903, -97.3461
Memphis, Tennessee
The Jungle Room at Graceland
Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.
35.0460, -90.0230
Nashville, Tennessee
Culture + Co.
At this Nashville restaurant, cheese and charcuterie arrive via conveyor belt.
36.1528, -86.8325
Marietta, Georgia
Big Chicken
This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.
33.9513, -84.5204
Atlanta, Georgia
Sister Louisa's Church of the Living Room & Ping Pong Emporium
A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.
33.7544, -84.3723
Atlanta, Georgia
Center for Puppetry Arts
The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.
33.7927, -84.3896
Lookout Mountain, Georgia
Rock City
A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.
34.9740, -85.3504
Paris, France
Paris Padlocks of Love
The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.
48.8578, 2.3374
Paris, France
Le Stryge
This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.
48.8530, 2.3499
Athens, Greece
The Athenian Agora
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
37.9758, 23.7247
Greece
The Oracle of Delphi
The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.
38.4824, 22.5010
Rome, Italy
The Mouth of Truth
The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.
41.8882, 12.4814
Berlin, Germany
Berlin Victory Column
A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.
52.5147, 13.3491
Berlin, Germany
Stolpersteine Holocaust Memorials
Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.
52.5167, 13.3778
Berlin, Germany
Carillon Berlin-Tiergarten
One of the world's heaviest musical instruments towers within a popular urban park.
52.5177, 13.3670
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