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Golden Valley, Arizona
Santa Claus, Arizona
A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.
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Bronx, New York
North Brother Island
Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.
London, England
Darwin Centre Spirit Collection
Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Freetown Christiania
Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.
Kabul, Afghanistan
Skateistan
Afghanistan's first skatepark, located in war torn Kabul.
Potosi, Bolivia
Potosí Silver Mines
Mountain of unimaginable riches that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, complete with its own underworld god.
Kuchino, Russia
Gulag Museum
Former prison camp dedicated to the victims of political repression.
New York, New York
Collyer Brothers Park
Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.
London, England
Allies Sculpture
Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.
Pohang, South Korea
Dokdo/Takeshima (Liancourt Rocks)
Japan and South Korea both lay claim to islands inhabited by one woman.
London, England
Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
Abstract dinosaur models in London.
La Gloria, Mexico
Little Boy Zero
Statue of Edgar Hernandez, the first victim of swine flu.
Rockall, Scotland
Rockall
British Empire's last territorial expansion, claimed by four countries.
Stilton, England
Stilton Cheese Rolling Championship
Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.
Bayonne, New Jersey
Tear Drop Memorial
World Trade Center memorial likened to a woman's sexual organ.
Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
The Grave of Ernest Shackleton
Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.
Novaya Zemlya, Russia
Novaya Zemlya
Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Genghis Khan Statue Complex
Enormous statue of the Emperor of the Mongols.
Russia
Diomede Islands
Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.
Antarctica
Southern Pole of Inaccessibility
Considered the most remote point in the entire world.
Takehara, Japan
Okunoshima
Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The Bronze Fonz
Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.
