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Paris, France
Père Lachaise Cemetery
France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.
48.8594, 2.3910
Paris, France
Montparnasse Cemetery
A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.
48.8387, 2.3262
Chartres, France
Labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral
The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.
48.4472, 1.4878
Carnac, France
Carnac Stones
Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.
47.5847, -3.0778
Mont Saint-Michel, France
Mont Saint-Michel
This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.
48.6352, -1.5105
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
Douaumont Ossuary
This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.
49.2075, 5.4242
Hallstatt, Austria
Hallstatt Charnel House
An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.
47.5637, 13.6487
Venice, Italy
Isola di San Michele
Venice's island of the dead.
45.4470, 12.3466
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cementerio de la Recoleta
Buenos Aires' city of the dead contains some very famous remains, including Eva Perón.
-34.5886, -58.3925
Vancouver, British Columbia
Mountain View Cemetery
Vancouver's only resting place for the city's deceased.
49.2351, -123.0928
Vancouver, British Columbia
'Girl in a Wetsuit'
What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.
49.3026, -123.1259
Vancouver, British Columbia
The Sam Kee (Jack Chow) Building
At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.
49.2806, -123.1049
Vancouver, British Columbia
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.
49.2798, -123.1043
Kaslo, British Columbia
SS Moyie
The "Crow Boat" of Kootenay Lake, sold for a dollar and now on display as "the world's oldest intact passenger sternwheeler."
49.9117, -116.9023
East Sussex, England
Beachy Head
England's most notorious suicide spot.
50.7374, 0.2477
Hot Water Beach, New Zealand
Hot Water Beach
Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.
-36.8872, 175.8237
Rotorua, New Zealand
Rotorua
Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.
-38.1368, 176.2497
Batu Caves, Malaysia
Batu Caves
Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.
3.2419, 101.6868
Singapore
Haw Par Villa
A Buddhist theme park brings you a Buddhist version of Hell.
1.2847, 103.7819
Government Camp, Oregon
Timberline Lodge
You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.
45.3311, -121.7100
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