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The Foreshore Freeway Bridge.

Cape Town, South Africa

Foreshore Freeway Bridge

Despite many attempts to finish this overpass, it has been abandoned since the 1970s.

Tower of the Winds.

Athens, Greece

Tower of the Winds

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

The ruins of Knossos.

Heraklion, Greece

Knossos

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

'Santa Claus'

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Paul McCarthy's 'Santa Claus'

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this Santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.

The museum as seen from the road.

McMinnville, Oregon

Evergreen Aviation Museum

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

A partial view of the Davis Monthan Air Force Base via GoogleEarth.
Permanently Closed

Tucson, Arizona

309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

The Upper Cliff Dwelling.

Roosevelt, Arizona

Tonto National Monument Upper Cliff Dwelling

This 40-room dwelling tucked within a cliff was built by the basin's prehistoric residents.

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.

Footprints on the dunes.

Mears, Michigan

Silver Lake Sand Dunes

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

John Harrison's H1 marine timepiece

London, England

John Harrison's Marine Chronometers

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

Public Standards of Length at the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

London, England

Public Standards of Length

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

Woodward's Spiral Staircase to Nowhere

Vancouver, British Columbia

Woodward's Spiral Staircase to Nowhere

A unique spiral staircase that doesn't quite make it up to the top floor.

Hoa Hakananai'a.

London, England

Hoa Hakananai'a

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

The Sam Kee (Jack Chow) Building

Vancouver, British Columbia

The Sam Kee (Jack Chow) Building

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

A lone Quiver tree.

Namibia/South Africa

Ai-Ais—Richtersveld Transfrontier Park

A seemingly desolate park that belongs to two countries actually supports all kinds of wildlife.

Boulders Beach Penguin Sanctuary

Cape Town, South Africa

Boulders Beach Penguin Sanctuary

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

The Joker's Chair

Dublin, Ireland

The Joker's Chair

This courtly monument celebrates an influential comedian who turned taking the piss out of the powers-that-be into an art.

A facsimile of James Joyce's death mask

Dublin, Ireland

The Little Museum of Dublin

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

The path on which lovers meet

Riomaggiore, Italy

Via dell’Amore

A lover's walk between hilltop towns, decorated with graffiti love notes.

Corniglia, Cinque Terre.

Vernazza, Italy

Cinque Terre

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

A sign marking the Tropic of Capricorn.

Namibia

Tropic of Capricorn Crossing

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.

The Afrikaans Language Monument overlooking Paarl Valley.

Paarl, South Africa

Afrikaans Language Monument

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

The Wayside Chapel.

Monroe, Washington

Wayside Chapel

The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.

Downtown

Leavenworth, Washington

Leavenworth's Bavarian Village

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

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