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Paperback Bookshop Rhinoceros

Edinburgh, Scotland

Paperback Bookshop Rhinoceros

This small sculpture honors a shuttered bookshop that was the site of a fiery act of protest.

Replica "La Grande Hermine" abandoned and burned
Permanently Closed

Lincoln, Ontario

Grande Hermine

The third version of this tall sailing ship sits, rusted and burnt, in Lake Ontario.

Quetpapalotl Palace

San Juan Teotihuacan de Arista, Mexico

Quetzalpapálotl Palace

Dating back to the second century, vestiges of prehispanic mural paintings are found in this underground palace.

La Gruta

San Francisco Mazapa, Mexico

La Gruta

Cool down and fill up after visiting Teotihuacán at this bar and restaurant in a deep, underground cave.

Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo House-Studio Museum

Mexico City, Mexico

Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo House-Studio Museum

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.

Highgate Cemetery

London, England

Highgate Cemetery

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Hackney City Farm

London, England

Hackney City Farm

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

Childhood Cube by Sarah Raphael

London, England

V&A Museum of Childhood

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

Side view of St Augustine's.

London, England

St Augustine's Tower

This medieval church tower has maintained its clockworks since the 16th century.

Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem0115 947 3171

Nottingham, England

Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

Brabo Fountain.

Antwerp, Belgium

Brabo Fountain

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

Stamford's Miniature Ghost Town
Permanently Closed

Stamford, Connecticut

Stamford's Miniature Ghost Town

Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.

A street in the close.

Edinburgh, Scotland

Mary King’s Close

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

The Bouquinistes sell vintage postcards and posters, too.

Paris, France

The Bouquinistes of Paris

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History

London, England

The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Mystic Seaport

Stonington, Connecticut

Mystic Seaport Museum

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

Louis' Lunch

New Haven, Connecticut

Louis' Lunch

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

Bluestockings storefront in 2006.

New York, New York

Bluestockings Bookstore

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

The Black Tower.

Brussels, Belgium

Black Tower

A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.

The Dell

Boston, Massachusetts

Central Burying Ground

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

Faneuil Hall

Boston, Massachusetts

Faneuil Hall

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Mapparium Globe

Boston, Massachusetts

Mapparium Globe

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Mercado de Sonora

Mexico City, Mexico

Mercado de Sonora

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

La Mina Waterfall

Puerto Rico

Cascada La Mina (La Mina Falls)

A magnificent waterfall nestled in the heart of the El Yunque National Forest.

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