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Tower of the Winds.

Athens, Greece

Tower of the Winds

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

Red Chair

Iceland

Red Chair

A giant red chair bolted to a rock on a remote mossy hillside in Iceland.

Czar PRL: Life Under Communism Museum.

Warsaw, Poland

Czar PRL: Life Under Communism Museum

This hidden collection of everyday objects illustrates life within communist Poland.

The labyrinth, with castle ruins in the background.

Dunure, Scotland

Dunure Labyrinth

This modern labyrinth lies in the shadow of a ruined medieval castle.

The Pinang Peranakan Mansion.

George Town, Malaysia

Pinang Peranakan Mansion

The lavish, well-preserved home of a wealthy Baba Nyonya family is now a cultural museum.

Exterior of the church in April 2018.

Athens, Greece

Agia Dynamis

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

Izumo-Taisha

Izumo-shi, Japan

Izumo-Taisha

What's believed to be the country's first shrine is, in Shintō mythology, the annual meeting place of the gods.

Cambodia-Vietnam Friendship Monument.

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Cambodia–Vietnam Friendship Monument

Bombed and burned, this monument represents the often controversial ties between Vietnam and Cambodia.

Saigon Central Post Office.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Saigon Central Post Office

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

Flowers adorn the cemetery.

San Antonio, Texas

Memorial Park at UT Health Science Center

The cremains of those who donated their bodies to science are buried in a tiny cemetery behind the building.

The artesian bottling factory that now houses the Dr Pepper Museum.

Waco, Texas

Dr Pepper Museum

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

BOK Tower

Tulsa, Oklahoma

BOK Tower

A half-size replica of the World Trade Center towers above Tulsa.

The Center of the Universe, Tulsa OK.

Tulsa, Oklahoma

The Center of the Universe

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

World's Largest Fork

Springfield, Missouri

World's Largest Fork

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

The original Air Force One.

Dayton, Ohio

SAM 26000

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

The Avrocar

Dayton, Ohio

The Avrocar

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

A plaque marks the spot where the Axe Murder Incident of 1976, inside the DMZ.
Permanently Closed

Paju, South Korea

Korean Axe Murder Incident Memorial

A monument to the two U.S. officers killed by North Korean troops while trying to trim a poplar tree.

Bridge of No Return
Permanently Closed

Paju, South Korea

Bridge of No Return

The site of many tense prisoner exchanges across the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

Laufskalavarda.

Iceland

Laufskálavarða

Cairns built to bring travelers good luck stretch across the land like miniature stone mountains.

The not-at-all bustling entrance to Dorasan Station.
Permanently Closed

Paju, South Korea

Dorasan Station

South Korea's largely symbolic, barely used gateway to the North.

Entrance to the hidden chapel.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Begijnhof Chapel

A hidden church in a hidden courtyard tells the story of the Miracle of Amsterdam.

The entrance to the park

Tampa, Florida

Parque Amigos de Jose Marti

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

Grand staircase

Tampa, Florida

Hindu Temple of Florida

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

The building lit up at night.

Los Angeles, California

LAX Theme Building

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

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