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A view of the control tower at the Tucson airport.

Tucson, Arizona

Tucson's Retro Airport Control Tower

This iconic 1958 tower welcomes air travelers to Tucson with neon-lit letters and architectural style.

The movable sculptures of the Museum of Kinetic Art

Tucson, Arizona

Mat Bevel's Museum of Kinetic Art & Surrealistic Pop Science Theater

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

Desert landscape encroaching.

Tucson, Arizona

Lisa Frank Factory

Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.

Eisendrath House after restoration.

Tempe, Arizona

Eisendrath House

The historic “pink house on the hill” is an architectural gem that now serves as a center for water conservation.

The museum.

Fakenham, England

Fakenham Museum of Gas and Local History

The last gas works in England and Wales details how people once extracted the resource from coal.

Mos Espa, Tunisia.

Tunisia

Mos Espa

An abandoned film set location for a remote spaceport in a galaxy far, far away hides in the Tunisian desert.

Steam engines.

Meridian, Mississippi

Soulé Steam Feed Works

The last intact steam engine factory in the United States.

Foxton Locks

Foxton, England

Foxton Locks

The longest and steepest staircase locks in the United Kingdom.

Ksar Ouled Soltane

Tataouine, Tunisia

Ksar Ouled Soltane

A 15th-century granary that played the role of futuristic slave quarters in the world of 'Star Wars.'

Stoney Cove at the UK National Dive Centre

Stoney Stanton, England

Stoney Cove at the UK National Dive Centre

The site of the most dived wreck in the UK.

Hotel Sidi Driss

Matmatat-Al-Qadimal, Tunisia

Hotel Sidi Driss

The original film set of Luke Skywalker's Tatooine home from the 'Star Wars' trilogy.

Bradgate House.

Newtown Linford, England

Bradgate House

The alleged birthplace of Lady Jane Grey, who was executed at age 16 for claiming the throne of England.

The neoclassical entrance dates back to Ferdinand VII's reign.

Segovia, Spain

The Coining House

The first mechanized factory in Spain is also one of the most significant mints in the history of money.

On the ocean floor

Toberonochy, Scotland

'The Unsoiling of Rockall'

A plaque installed underwater marks the fall of a royal family from an imagined parallel universe—part of a globe-spanning art project.

Polo's Taqueria

Tucson, Arizona

Polo's Taqueria

Some of Arizona's best spit-roasted tacos al pastor can be found here.

The facade of the house.

Stockholm, Sweden

Last Home of Descartes

A plaque marks the house in Stockholm where the French philosopher René Descartes lived up until his death.

Note the reputed high water line above marker.
Permanently Closed

London, England

'Great Dangaroo Flood'

On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

Kymaerica Plaque on Hornby Island.

Comox-Strathcona K, British Columbia

'Hornby Uintotherium'

A plaque on Canada's Hornby Island commemorates a fantastical creature from a fictional universe.

The aqueduct at night.

Segovia, Spain

Segovia Aqueduct

One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'

The Selfie Devil

Segovia, Spain

The Selfie Devil

A controversial art piece that harkens back to local folklore.

Hermitage of Saint Fructus.

Carrascal del Río, Spain

Hermitage of Saint Fructus

Medieval ruins nestled within a breathtaking swath of Spanish nature.

The Ermita.

Somosierra, Spain

Battle of Somosierra Memorial

A tiny church remembers the Polish cavalrymen who charged their way into a Napoleonic victory.

Monumento alla Lavandaia

Pavia, Italy

Monumento alla Lavandaia

An ode to the washerwomen who called Pavia home.

An aerial view.

Fontanellato, Italy

The Labirinto della Masone

The world's largest bamboo labyrinth is a living demonstration of the plant’s immense potential.

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