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Dead Man's Pond in winter

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

Dead Man's Pond

This pond in Victoria Park is rumored to be bottomless, one of several legends that surround it.

New mural on street

Bellefontaine, Ohio

Shortest Street in America

Blink and you’ll miss it—the tiniest street in America packs a lot of charm into just a few steps.

Jim Thorpe Monument in Jim Thorpe, PA

Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania

Jim Thorpe Monument

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

Rat's Restaurant

Hamilton Township, New Jersey

Rat's Restaurant

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

Booth One: "The Rumble Seat."

Washington, D.C.

The Presidential Booths at Martin's Tavern

Sit where JFK proposed to Jackie or where Nixon dined on meatloaf at this storied pub.

Pony Express Monument

Sidney, Nebraska

Pony Express Monument

A tribute to the riders who bridged East and West.

Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal

Pune, India

Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal

A heritage stone building that preserves over a million historical documents and rare artifacts.

Beautiful Rose Island.

Newport, Rhode Island

Rose Island Lighthouse

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

Fountain Elms.

Utica, New York

Fountain Elms

This 1850s mansion reveals how rich Americans lived in the Victorian era.

Paw Paw Tunnel

Oldtown, Maryland

Paw Paw Tunnel

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

American Celebration on Parade

Quicksburg, Virginia

American Celebration on Parade

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

Buildings on St Helena Island

Manly, Australia

St. Helena Island

The ruins of Brisbane’s own Alcatraz now sit in the middle of a national park.

Dhaka Shipyard

Keraniganj, Bangladesh

Dhaka Shipyard

The shipyards along the outskirts of the Bangladesh capital are a flurry dangerous boat breaking and rebuilding.

View of Frank Triguero homestead site from the canyon rim.

Bruneau, Idaho

Bruneau Canyon

The "Grand Canyon of Southwestern Idaho" makes a spectacular gash across the flat Snake River plain.

Borah Peak

Mackay, Idaho

Borah Peak

This highest peak in Idaho can only be reached by traversing a formation known as "Chicken-Out Ridge."

Musée de la Médecine

Brussels, Belgium

Musée de la Médecine

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

Melilla la Vieja Lighthouse

Melilla, Spain

Melilla

A five-square-mile slice of Spain on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa.

African Quadripoint

Chobe, Botswana

African Quadripoint

There is only one place in the world where the corners of four nations come together.

Mount Stanley, home to Margherita Peak

Bundibugyo, Uganda

Margherita Peak

Famous in both ancient and modern times, the "mountains of the moon" are legendary for their beauty and biodiversity. But they are threatened by the changing climate.

Also known as the Henry Stuart House or Hermit House, it's on the National Register of Historic Places

Fairhope, Alabama

Tolstoy Park, the Unusual Home of Henry Stuart

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

Fred’s Lounge

Mamou, Louisiana

Fred’s Lounge

“The Cajun Music Capital of the World” has kept things French in a Louisiana prairie town for over 75 years.

Scoria cone in the Waw an Namus caldera.

Libya

Waw an Namus

Surrounded by a smudge of dark earth, this isolated volcano sits in stark contrast to the surrounding Sahara.

Open air chess board in Elista

Elista, Russia

Chess City

The largest Buddhist city in Europe is a haven for chess fanatics.

Algar do Carvão

Terceira Island, Portugal

Algar do Carvão

One of few vertical lava tubes in the world accessible by foot.

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