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The Beale Street Hoodoo History and Folklife Museum
35.1396, -90.0528
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Rig Museum
29.6912, -91.2097
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Enkiri Enoki
35.7596, 139.7077
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Embassy Park
-15.4218, 28.3093
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Gimli, Manitoba
New Iceland
Icelandic settlement in Manitoba established in 1875.
50.6330, -96.9852
Muriwai, New Zealand
Muriwai Gannet Colony
New Zealand's west coast is one of the best places in the world to view these large seabirds.
-36.8295, 174.4299
Melbourne, Australia
Princess Theatre
One of the oldest theaters in Australia, it's also said to be haunted by a performer who died on stage.
-37.8107, 144.9725
Melbourne, Australia
'The Public Purse'
This giant, granite purse is one of Melbourne's most unique and distinctive pieces of public art.
-37.8142, 144.9633
Melbourne, Australia
Raising the Rattler Pole
Not the result of an accident, hurricane, or aliens, this is an eye-popping tribute to the Melbourne tram.
-37.8209, 144.9548
Auckland, New Zealand
Maungauika (North Head)
Walk through abandoned anti-Russian military tunnels on this volcano at the head of Auckland Harbor.
-36.8272, 174.8104
Auckland, New Zealand
Stony Batter Historic Reserve
Large World War II gun emplacements and tunnel systems remain hidden near a remote end of Waiheke Island.
-36.7623, 175.1729
Landers, California
The Integratron
Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.
34.2932, -116.4038
Tampaksiring, Indonesia
Pura Tirta Empul
One of the holiest places in the region, devotees come to Tirta Empul to bathe in the holy spring water.
-8.4158, 115.3152
Ubud, Indonesia
Sacred Monkey Forest (Mandala Wisata Wenara Wana)
Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.
-8.5179, 115.2597
Auckland, New Zealand
'The Lighthouse: Tū Whenua-a-Kura'
A neon-illuminated statue of James Cook at the edge of a historical Auckland wharf makes for an unexpected discovery.
-36.8429, 174.7678
Glamis, California
Algodones Dunes
This vast and otherworldly landscape is one of the largest dune complexes in North America.
32.9584, -115.0842
Auckland, New Zealand
Benjamin the Library Cat
A bronze statue to commemorate an Auckland library's beloved feline resident.
-36.8314, 174.7977
Las Vegas, Nevada
Golden Tiki
Keen eyes can find the Disney influences throughout this treasure trove of a tiki bar.
36.1261, -115.1923
Sydney, Australia
Waverley Cemetery
A self-funded cemetery with a long list of inhabitants.
-33.9073, 151.2642
Sydney, Australia
Justice and Police Museum
This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.
-33.8623, 151.2123
Sydney, Australia
Mrs. Macquarie’s Chair
A 19th-century perch for spotting sailing ships now boasts one of the most iconic views in the Southern Hemisphere.
-33.8597, 151.2226
Sydney, Australia
'Memory Is Creation Without End'
This work of art was designed to represent the Tarpeian Way Quarry that once dominated the area.
-33.8613, 151.2136
Sydney, Australia
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!
-33.8646, 151.2198
Sydney, Australia
'Forgotten Songs' Sound Sculpture
A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.
-33.8672, 151.2078
Sydney, Australia
The Queen's Letter
This letter written by Queen Elizabeth II in 1986 won't be opened until 2085.
-33.8717, 151.2067
Tahiti, French Polynesia
Point Venus
Site of James Cook's historic observations of the 1769 transit of Venus.
-17.4943, -149.4944
Banff, Alberta
Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station
Since its original beginnings as a weather observatory mountaintop, this facility played an instrumental role in gathering atmospheric data for almost 100 years.
51.1471, -115.5796
Banff, Alberta
Banff Springs Hotel
Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.
51.1644, -115.5619
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