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35.1396, -90.0528
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Chicago, Illinois
Lower Lower Wacker Drive
Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.
41.8869, -87.6296
Chicago, Illinois
Carroll Avenue
A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.
41.8885, -87.6325
Buchanan, Virginia
Buchanan Swinging Bridge
Sway your way across Virginia’s longest river on a rickety wooden bridge.
37.5297, -79.6779
Natural Bridge, Virginia
The Natural Bridge
A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.
37.6282, -79.5447
Luray, Virginia
The Great Stalacpipe Organ
An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.
38.6614, -78.4850
Chichen Itza, Mexico
Pyramid of Kukulcan at Chich'en Itza
Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.
20.6830, -88.5687
Chichen Itza, Mexico
Chichen Itza Chirp
Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.
20.6816, -88.5677
Washington, D.C.
Watergate Fountain
The word "Watergate" will forever be associated with the infamous scandal in 1972, but this fountain is famous in its own right.
38.8987, -77.0543
Charlottesville, Virginia
Monticello's Vegetable Garden and Fruitery
Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.
38.0059, -78.4522
Vienna, Austria
Café Sperl
Royals, rebels, and artists have all conversed at this grand 19th-century Viennese coffee house.
48.1999, 16.3614
Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi
This sacred fig tree with a link to the Buddha is one of the oldest human-planted trees in the world.
8.3448, 80.3972
Sigiriya, Sri Lanka
Sigiriya
An ancient stone fortress considered by many to be the eighth wonder of the world.
7.9500, 80.7500
Vienna, Austria
Windows For Peace
On a winding Vienna side street, one museum has turned their windows into a monument to history’s peace-minded heroes.
48.2078, 16.3745
Vienna, Austria
Naturhistorisches Museum
Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.
48.2057, 16.3606
Vienna, Austria
Kunstkammer Wien
The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.
48.2044, 16.3607
Vienna, Austria
Esperanto Museum
Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.
48.2095, 16.3657
Vienna, Austria
Ampelpärchen
Vienna's diversity-themed traffic lights were inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest.
48.2025, 16.3616
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Ladybug Building
The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.
43.0330, -87.9091
Astana, Kazakhstan
Bayterek Tower
A modern tower, symbolizing the legend of a golden egg on top of the tree of life.
51.1283, 71.4305
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Ascension Cathedral
In Kazakhstan, a colorful cathedral with many lives once survived the most powerful earthquake in the region.
43.2588, 76.9532
Almaty, Kazakhstan
Statue of Panfilov's 28 Guardsmen
This Soviet statue is based on a piece of propaganda that's been elevated to national myth.
43.2573, 76.9551
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
Lost Canyon
This steep-walled ravine contains animal-shaped formations made from sandstone.
43.5939, -89.7807
Ambalangoda, Sri Lanka
Ariyapala Mask Factory and Museum
Beautiful and terrifying masks displayed in the island’s only mask library.
6.2413, 80.0507
Hartford, Connecticut
The Mark Twain House & Museum
The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.
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