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Zao Fox Village

This Japanese petting zoo is filled with nature's most adorable schemers.
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Confederate Colony in Brazil

The Confederacy is still celebrated by descendants of the thousands of Southerners that fled to São Paulo after the Civil War.
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Stone Mountain

A stately granite mountain that bears a Lost Cause-era monument.
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Sentinelese of the Andaman Islands

The most isolated tribe on earth.
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Severalls Asylum

This abandoned house of horrors had a "trial-and-error" philosophy regarding mental health care.
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Scientology's Trementina Base

A strange symbol marks a secret Scientology base, and is meant to guide its leader back to Earth.