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Sunny's Bar

Brooklyn, New York

Sunny's Bar

Once a popular watering hole among longshoremen and shipyard workers, this neighborhood treasure spans more than 100 years of Red Hook history.

Shatrunjaya Hill

Gheti, India

Shatrunjaya Hill

A mecca for India's Jains.

Machu Picchu.

Aguas Calientes, Peru

Machu Picchu: The Lost City of The Inca

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

Kilmogue Portal Tomb.

Kilkenny, Ireland

Kilmogue Portal Tomb

Huge standing stones mark a site of megalithic mystery.

The Forbidden City

Beijing, China

The Forbidden City

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

"Vuel Villa" by Xul Solar

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Xul Solar Museum

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

Quinta da Regaleira

Sintra, Portugal

Quinta da Regaleira

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

Ronda, Spain

Ronda, Spain

Ronda, Spain

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

General Sherman

Sequoia National Park, California

General Sherman

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The view from the bottom of the well.

Orvieto, Italy

Pozzo di San Patrizio

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

One of the many Wild West style buildings.

Deer Isle, Maine

Nervous Nellie's Jams and Jellies

Sculptures, jams, and the wild west collide at this folksy retreat.

Dunino Den

Dunino, Scotland

Dunino Den

A site of pagan worship which still attracts people looking for fairies.

Goats of Cingino Dam

Noasca, Italy

Goats of the Cingino Dam

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

United States Minor Outlying Islands

Jarvis Ghost Island

An abandoned guano-mining city in the South Pacific.

Alain Baroux's Antique Curiosity Cabinet
Permanently Closed

Saint-Ouen, France

Alain Baroux's Antique Curiosity Cabinet

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

Snæfellsjökull under clouds.

Iceland

Snæfellsjökull

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

The Arab Room ceiling

Cardiff, Wales

The Arab Room at Cardiff Castle

A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.

Herculaneum

Ercolano, Italy

Herculaneum

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

A crumbling building at Barker Ranch

Panamint, California

Barker Ranch

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

Syri i Kalter: The Blue Eye

Sarandë District, Albania

Syri i Kalter: The Blue Eye

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

The Bristlecone Pines of the Great Basin

Baker, Nevada

The Bristlecone Pines of the Great Basin

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Forbidden Corner

Coverham, England

Forbidden Corner

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

Sir Edwin Arnold thought Hawa Mahal was "a vision of daring and dainty loveliness, of storeys of rosy masonry and delicate overhanging balconies and latticed windows. Soaring with tier after tier of fanciful architecture in a pyramidal form, a very mountain of airy and audacious beauty through the thousand pierced screens and gilded arches of which the Indian air blows cool over the flat roofs of the very highest house." As quoted in, Delhi Agra Jaipur, by Surendra Sahai.  See more at https://kimcarpenterphotos.smugmug.com/Hawa-Mahal-Jaipur-India/.

Jaipur, India

Hawa Mahal (Palace of Winds)

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Dargavs

Dargavs, Russia

Dargavs Village

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

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