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Life Underground
Life UndergroundArtist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic pastEach day, thousands of subway riders at 14th Street/8th Avenue walk hurriedly by the tiny bronze figures that adorn...
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Magic Tap
Magic TapFloating pink tap installed for a flower show in LondonEndlessly gushing out water without any obvious source, the Magic Tap at Hampton Court is a dazzling real-life optical illusion....
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Fucking, Austria
Fucking, AustriaAmerican soldiers discovered Europe's best one-liner at the end of World War IISince the Americans came into town in the 1940s, the Fuckingers, as people of the town are called, have...
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Gun Totem
Gun Totem3,500 pound obelisk constructed with 1000 reclaimed gunsStanding 12 feet high in front of Providence's Federal Courthouse is an unusual monument constructed out of steel, concrete and used...
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The Fantastic Umbrella Factory
The Fantastic Umbrella Factory250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar Originally opened in 1760, the Fantastic Umbrella Factory is actually a small farm near the...
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Remnants of the Paris Guillotine
Remnants of the Paris Guillotine Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in ParisBlissfully unaware of the history of Paris, one might simply trip over these five...
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Hanford Site
Hanford SiteNuclear reactor created the plutonium used on NagasakiWhen the Cold War finally ended, weapon-production reactors at the Hanford Site had produced 53 million gallons of nuclear waste....
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Oude Kerk
Oude KerkAmsterdam's oldest church, and the center of Dutch prostitutionAmsterdam is one of the oldest and most beautiful cities in Europe. It is also a self-proclaimed experiment in freedom, which has...
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Laurence Hutton Collection of Life and Death Masks
Laurence Hutton Collection of Life and Death Masks One man's lifelong obsession with death.Literary editor and newspaper critic Laurence Hutton stumbled upon a life changing purchase in the late 1800s....
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One Street Museum Death Mask Collection
One Street Museum Death Mask CollectionThe largest collection of death masks in UkraineThe One Street Museum in Kiev, Ukraine has over 7,000 exhibits rich in historical content and priceless antiques....
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Floyd Bennett Field
Floyd Bennett FieldHome of aviation trailblazersNamed after the first person to fly over the North Pole (and Brooklyn resident), Floyd Bennett, the field was New York City’s first local airport. Opened...
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Marree Man
Marree ManNot a single witness can attest to the creation of the world's largest geoglyph The fact that there is not a single witness to the creation of the Marree Man speaks to the absolute isolation...
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Monk Parakeets of Brooklyn College
Monk Parakeets of Brooklyn CollegeCon Edison’s exotic and heat-loving pestsAccording to local lore, during the 1960s, a shipment of Argentinian birds was supposed to arrive in New York to be...
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I Love You Wall
I Love You WallParis' linguistic guide to the international languageSpanning 416 square feet, the I Love You Wall ( Le mur des je t'aime) in Paris' Jehan-Rictus Square was created by two artists as a...
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Portlandia
PortlandiaPortlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United StatesPortlandia is a sculpture by Raymond Kaskey located above the entrance of Michael Graves' Portland Building in...
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Nazino Island
Nazino IslandSocial outcasts and cannibalism in Stalin's Soviet UnionOf the 6,200 people who arrived on Nazino Island in 1933, only 2,200 survived, and only 200 left not completely frail. Everyone who...
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Devil's Island
Devil's IslandA hellish, 19th century French penal colony in French GuianaIslands just off the shore of French Guiana look a lot like paradise. Lush forests flower in the humidity and the blue waters...
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The Cross Bones Graveyard
The Cross Bones GraveyardMedieval prostitute cemetery on the outskirts of LondonPost-medieval London was a place of decency, civility and god-fearing. But post-medieval suburbs of London were another...
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Strawberry Fields Memorial
Strawberry Fields MemorialCentral Park mosaic dedicated to John Lennon, groomed by a Beatles super-fanConstructed just five years after John Lennon's tragic death, Strawberry Fields quickly became a...
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Kuklica
KuklicaStone pillars and a petrified wedding party in the Macedonian hillsGrouped together in a tiny area of just 74 acres, 120 massive stone pillars stand at attention and have stood there for 100,000...
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