New Orleans, Louisiana
Tulane’s Mardi Gras Bead Tree
After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.
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Prague, Czechia
Defenestration of Prague Window
The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.
Permanently Closed
Noble, Oklahoma
Timberlake Rose Rock Museum
A collection of beautiful crystals shaped like freshly plucked roses.
Alexandria, Virginia
Mount Vernon Slave Cemetery
The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.
London, England
The Tower Ravens
Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.
Key West, Florida
Blue Heaven Rooster Cemetery
A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.
Key West, Florida
Key West Cemetery
The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.
San Antonio, Texas
Rosita's Bridge
An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.
Picacho, Arizona
Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch
Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.
Delta, Louisiana
Grant's Canal
The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.
Berlin, Germany
Marx and Engels Forum
One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.
Salzburg, Austria
Meteorological Pillar of the 19th Century
The beautiful, ornate weather station is the most popular geocache in Salzburg.
Munich, Germany
Asamkirche
Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.
London, England
Traitors' Gate
The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.
Prague, Czechia
Prague Meridian
The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.
Barstow, California
Painted Rocks
The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.
Jersey
La Hougue Bie
A passage grave used in neolithic rituals.
Frankfurt, Germany
Frankfurt Wishing Wells
Carved fountains poignantly placed in parks and in front of special monuments.
Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany
Ratstrinkstube Clock Tower
Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.
Permanently Closed
Paris, France
Paris Padlocks of Love
The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.
Paris, France
Foucault’s Pendulum
Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.
Frankfurt, Germany
Eiserner Steg (Iron Bridge)
Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.
Schipkau, Germany
Bagger 258: The "Blue Wonder"
The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.
Berlin, Germany
Vestiges of the Berlin Wall
On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.
