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34. Fenyes Mansion in Pasadena, California
The Fenyes Mansion, unlike so many of the great houses on Orange Grove Boulevard, actually represented a move into a smaller home for the Fenyes family, who were tired of keeping up their 30 room...
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8. Seattle Metaphysical Library in Seattle, Washington
While their landlord will not allow them to erect a sign, the Seattle Metaphysical Library would like you to know that they are open for browsing. Legally registered as the As-You-Like-It Library, this...
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34. Hale's Palladium in Seattle, Washington
In addition to brewing a variety of robust beers, Seattle's Hale's Ales Brewery features a sometime warehouse, sometime theater.When not storing the various seasonal, limited edition, or stand-by beers...
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The Bones of the Wawel Dragon in Krakow, Poland
Poland's Wawel Cathedral holds the remains of a number of Polish royals as well as some of the country's most famous religious art, but the real attraction at the massive religious compound are the...
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Drombeg Stone Circle in Cork, Ireland
It sometimes seems as though every stray rock in the Irish countryside has some archeological significance, but formations such as the popular Drombeg Stone Circle show that the people of megalithic...
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Historic Orange Grove in Los Angeles, California
A pond, a bistro and an observatory, the orange grove has thousands of fresh, free oranges waiting to be picked. Ask anyone on the campus that hosts this grove about the oranges, and you'll get a slew...
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Memento-Mori Hamsterley Brass in Oddington, England
Before Ralph Hamsterley died in 1518, he commissioned five brass memorial plaques in his own honor, leaving the death date blank. The memento-mori plaque embedded in the floor and hiding under a carpet...
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Pronghorn of F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Francis E. Warren Air Force Base,...
Located outside Cheyenne, Wyoming, Francis E. Warren Air Force Base is one of three strategic missile bases in the United States, responsible for all of America's nuclear ICBM forces and is also home...
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RAF Upper Heyford in Upper Heyford, United Kingdom
Royal Air Force, Upper Heyford was a Royal Air Force station located 5 miles outside of Bicester but thanks to budget cuts and a damnable peace, the airstrips and bunkers now sit dormant, slowly being...
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Bendery Military Museum in Bendery, Moldova
The Military Museum at Bendery represents a rare collection of Soviet militaria, displayed within three consecutive carriages of a decommissioned Soviet steam train.The train is located next to the...
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Desert Christ Park in Yucca Valley, California
Near Joshua Tree National Park in the Mojave Desert, this Christian theme park was the concept of the then local pastor Reverend Eddie Garver who visualized creating the faith-based attraction as a...
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Guo Li Zhuang in Beijing, China
Adventurous eaters often take pride in the rare and suspect delicacies they find throughout the world but Beijing's Guo Li Zhuang restaurant is likely to make even the most daring gourmand run...
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Beijing Capital Museum in Beijing, China
Despite its downright futuristic exterior, the Beijing Capitol Museum allows visitors to take a free stroll through the ancient history of Beijing and Imperial China.Housed before 2006 at the actual...
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Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike in Breezewood, Pennsylvania
Tranquility and post-apocalyptic blight manage to co-exist along this stretch of cracked road and vandalized tunnels hidden in the middle of the Pennsylvania forest.This long-forgotten interstate in...
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Hinatuan Enchanted River in Hinatuan, Philippines
Hidden in the Philippine jungle is a short stretch of river that seems to pop up out the ground just to send its miraculously clear, blue water out to sea.The Hinatuan Enchanted River in Mindanao,...
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KGB Museum in Tallinn, Estonia
After the Soviets built Tallinn's luxurious, but imposing, Hotel Viru in the 1970s, Estonians joked that the building was made of microconcrete, as in concrete and microphones.Few people were ever...
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BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Sanstha Mandir in Bartlett, Illinois
The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Sanstha Mandir in the Chicago suburb of Bartlett is not just a mouthful, but also an eyeful with its traditional Indian design and marble construction.In fact the innocuous...
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16th Street Train Station in Oakland, California
The crumbling station at 16th Street in Oakland is the last remaining relic of the Bay Area's glory days of rail travel.At one time, the city of Oakland was graced with three monumental train stations,...
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Knossos in Iraklion, Crete
In northern Crete, near the modern city of Iraklion lies the ruins of Knossos, a city dating back to 7000 BC which was once home to a number of famous Greek myths and is now a popular tourist...
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The Paul Williams designed Roberts' House in Malibu, California
In 1952, Fred and Florence Roberts commissioned Paul Williams, the first certified African-American architect west of the Mississippi, to design a Polynesian-style home later featured in Architectural...
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