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Tank at Dawn

Rangely, Colorado

The TANK Center For Sonic Arts

Metal water storage tank turned ethereal concert hall.

Youngwood Court
Permanently Closed

Los Angeles, California

Youngwood Court

Iconic Los Angeles residence famous for its 19 statues of Michelangelo's David.

Free Little Library (#0924)

Los Angeles, California

Free Little Library (#0924)

A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.

Norton Sales Inc.

Los Angeles, California

Norton Sales Inc.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

Tempest Freerunning Academy

Los Angeles, California

Tempest Freerunning Academy

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

Kendall Alley

Pasadena, California

Kendall Alley

A cobblestone alley with an interesting past.

As seen from the sidewalk, through the tree

Los Angeles, California

Chicken Boy

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

Transpolar Railway between Salekhard and Nadym

Turukhansky District, Russia

The 'Dead Road' Transpolar Railway

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.

This section of Siberia was struck by falling meteor pieces on July 30, 1908

Evenkiysky District, Russia

Tunguska Event Epicenter

Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.

The tree in 1961.

Tchirozérine, Niger

Last Tree of Ténéré

The most remote tree in the world survived desertification, but not a drunk truck driver.

UTA Flight 772 Memorial

N'Guigmi, Niger

UTA Flight 772 Memorial

The world's most remote memorial to the victims of the UTA Flight 772 disaster.

On the island.

Moyenne Island, Seychelles

Moyenne Island

A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

Marie Antoinette's Restaurant

Victoria, Seychelles

Marie Antoinette's

One of the oldest restaurants in the Seychelles.

Oklo Reactor

Mounana, Gabon

Oklo Reactor

The world's first and only natural nuclear reactor.

Loango National Park

Ndougou, Gabon

Loango National Park

The true jewel of Africa's west coast known as "Africa's Last Eden."

Viana Desert

Boa Vista, Cabo Verde

Viana Desert

Rolling sand dunes of the Sahara... in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

Richat Structure

Mauritania

Richat Structure

A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space.

An ancient Quran in Chinguetti.

Chinguetti, Mauritania

The Libraries of Chinguetti

Five ancient libraries, little changed for centuries, preserve a medieval archive of Quranic lore and civic documents

Avenue of the Baobabs

Morondava, Madagascar

Avenue of the Baobabs

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.

Pirates Cemetery Ile Ste-Marie Madagascar

Madagascar

The Pirate Cemetery

This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.

Inaccessible Island

Inaccessible Island

Inaccessible Island

It might not be as impossible to reach as its name would imply, but just about.

A general view of Longwood House, the building which was the home of exiled French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte until his death in 1821 in Longwood, Saint Helena.

Longwood, Saint Helena

Longwood House

Napoleon’s home in exile, decorated with poisonous wallpaper.

The Batagaika Crater

Verkhoyanskiy ulus, Russia

The Batagaika Crater

The giant Siberian crater known locally as the "doorway to the underworld" is expanding every year.

The mushroom cloud caused by the Tsar Bomba explosion. (Wikimedia Commons)

Novaya Zemlya, Russia

Novaya Zemlya

Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.

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