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Naganeupseong Folk Village in Suncheon-si, South Korea

Naganeupseong is home to more than two hundred Koreans who still live out their daily lives much the same as Koreans did during the height of the Joseon Dynasty.This small village in the eastern...

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Cornhenge in Dublin, Ohio

Corn stalks are notoriously tall but the ears themselves were never as tall as a man until the construction of the public art display known to locals as "Cornhenge."Completed in 1994 and officially...

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Bronson Cave in Los Angeles, California

As you enter the mouth of the cavern and feel the air chill, you wonder if the number of movie stars you’ve seen performing in these very walls touched the same smooth rock you’re now bracing yourself...

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Hollow Earth Monument in Hamilton, Ohio

While Jules Verne may have been the most famous writer to expound on the concept that the Earth is hollow, his famous book was explicitly a work of fiction. Early 1800's lecturer John Symmes Jr. wanted...

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Homero Ortega Workshop and Museum in Cuenca , Ecuador

Homero Ortega is a museum and store in Ecuador that is devoted exclusively to the lasting legacy of the famous (but incorrectly known) "Panama hat", or as they prefer to call it, the toquilla straw...

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Dikteon Cave in Psyhro, Greece

In Greek myth, before there were gods, there were titans.The most notorious among them was Cronus, who was in the habit of eating his children immediately once they were born. That was until Rhea,...

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Track 61 in New York, New York

Unlike other "abandoned" train stations along the New York City subway system, the infamous Track 61 is supposedly still in use as a secret escape train for president's visiting the city. Built along...

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Congressional Cemetery in Washington DC, United States

The Congressional Cemetery or Washington Parish Burial Ground is a historic yet active cemetery located at 1801 E Street, SE, in Washington, D.C., on the west bank of the Anacostia River. It is the...

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Mormon Island in Folsom, California

Two months after the gold rush began with James Marshall’s discovery in Colma, three Mormon miners made the second major gold strike 25 miles east of Sacramento on the American River. Other prospectors...

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Norton Sales Inc. in North Hollywood, California

Picking through the piles of valves, gauges, and old school hydraulic equipment, you kick yourself for skipping that rocketry class you’d been meaning to take.You’ve managed to find everything you...

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Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, South Dakota

Initially discovered by a construction worker and his son while they were looking to build on the land, the Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, South Dakota would prove to yield one of the largest deposits of...

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Redbird Reef in Slaughter Beach , Delaware

Once a New York subway car is taken out of service it gets stripped, decontaminated, shipped down the coast and dropped into the ocean.  The underground transit cars then quickly become underwater...

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The Warren's Occult Museum in Monroe, Connecticutt

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren operated for decades as the preeminent voices in the believer community, and their strange career of ghost-hunting and demon-busting is on display in...

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Green Vault in Dresden, Germany

Europe and possibly the world's largest collection of treasures, objects d'art, cabinets of curiosity, baroque contraptions, and generally royal weirdness is all held in Germany's Grünes Gewölbe or...

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Khatyn Memorial Complex in Logoisk , Belarus

The Khatyn Memorial Complex is built on the former site of Khatyn village, and represents the many hundreds of homesteads destroyed in the Khatyn and similar massacres during World War II.In January...

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Cathedral Building in Oakland, California

Squeezed into the corner of the intersection between Broadway and Telegraph Ave, the gothic façade of the Flatiron-style Cathedral Building rises up 12 stories like an ornately detailed fin.Delicate...

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Huber Breaker in Ashley, Pennsylvania

An abandoned anthracite coal mine that was once at the forefront of American industry, Pennsylvania's Huber Breaker is a symbol of the country's industrial past that is in danger of being turned to...

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Fort Matanzas National Monument in St. Augustine, Florida

Despite being located in Florida, Fort Matanzas was never used by the United States but was instead built by the Spanish out of crushed seashells.In 1562, the French Hugenots wanted to establish a base...

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Wilkes-Barre Abandoned Train Station in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

The town of Wilkes-Barre, like many small mining settlements, fell into a deep depression when the nearby coal breaker shut down. However its single train station hung on as a cocktail bar until it too...

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Southeast Lighthouse in Block Island, Rhode Island

Rising like a giant gingerbread house above the forbidding Mohegan Bluffs, Southeast Light stands, as its name implies, on the southeast corner of Block Island. The red brick structure is the only...

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