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The Junk Castle
The Junk CastleA home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, WashingtonFor a lot of artists, the 60s was a time of experimentation and deviation from the norm....
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Hong Kong Cage Homes
Hong Kong Cage HomesAppalling and degrading form of low-income housing in one of Asia's richest citiesIn a series of massive, Brutalist high-rises, thousands of Hong Kong's poorest residents call wire...
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Low-Impact Woodland House
Low-Impact Woodland HouseOne family's environment-friendly hobbit-house in WalesUsing only £3000, a chisel, a chainsaw and a hammer, Simon Dale and his father-in-law raised this cozy, woodland home up...
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Soudan Underground Mine State Park
Soudan Underground Mine State ParkMinnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratoryCutting 2,341 feet into the earth, Soudan Underground Mine is the deepest mine in...
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Golubac Fortress
Golubac Fortress14th century castle sliding off the hills into the DanubeGolubac Fortress is one of the best preserved medieval fortresses in Europe. Yet the advent of modern technology has submerged...
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Gilis à Barras
Gilis à BarrasA bizarre sculpture garden in the south of FranceIn the late 1960's, artist and mason Jean Prosper Gilis began creating his own sculpture yard and within five years it was complete....
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Morgan Island
Morgan Island4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South CarolinaWhen a wave of B virus swept through the monkey population in Puerto Rico's Caribbean Primate Research Center in...
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Chimborazo
ChimborazoMassive volcano in the Andes is the farthest point from earth's centerAt 29,029 feet above sea level, Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. But despite Everest's massive peak,...
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Goal Bola-Bola
Goal Bola-BolaConcrete balls on wires constructed to stop train surfing in IndonesiaAlong with electrocution, commuters who ride on top of trains in Indonesia now have to worry about Goal Bola-Bola;...
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Foucoult's Pendulum and the Paris Pantheon
Foucoult's Pendulum and the Paris Pantheon19th century pendulum and a clock restored by a rogue group of guerilla artistsIn 1851, physicist Léon Foucault demonstrated the rotation of the Earth with an...
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Prairie Moon
Prairie MoonA curious sculpture garden and museum in Cochrane, WisconsinAfter a lifetime of working on the prairie, farmer Herman Rusch decided to invest 25 years of his retirement into transforming an...
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Ajanta Caves
Ajanta CavesRock-cut cave complex filled with ancient Buddhist artworkConstructed over an 800 year period, the Ajanta Caves span a massive rock face in Maharashtra and are filled with ornate frescoes...
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Leopard Society Garb
Leopard Society GarbRecovered suit of a cannibalistic West African gangHanging inauspiciously in a dark corner of the American Natural History Museum is a mysterious figure covered from head to toe in...
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Bull Surfing in Kerala
Bull Surfing in KeralaBold contestants slide in a rice paddy behind two charging bullsIn perhaps the dirtiest form of rodeo known to man, bull surfing in Kerala, India entails chasing down two charging...
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Gugging House of Artists
Gugging House of Artists Colorful environment encourages the mentally ill to paint in Gugging, AustriaIn 1981 a Professor named Leo Navratil decided to open a residential house for artists in Gugging,...
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Britannia Panopticon Music Hall
Britannia Panopticon Music HallThe worlds oldest surviving music hall. Built in 1857 by Thomas Gildard and H. M. McFarlane, the Britannia Panopticon Music Hall hosted some of the biggest names on the...
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Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast and Museum
Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast and MuseumEnjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murdersThe story of Lizzie Borden is a sad and hair-raising tale that lives on through...
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Kuching Cat Museum
Kuching Cat Museum2,000 feline artifacts in Malaysia's "Cat City"Tracing the history of cats back 5,000 years, the Kuching Cat Museum houses 2,000 different artifacts, ranging from a mummified Egyptian...
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Mayor Weigh-In
Mayor Weigh-In17th-century tradition of public weighing is met with boos or cheers depending on the Mayor's weightAlthough public officials are met with far less rotten fruit and tomatoes, the annual...
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New Jerusalem Theater
New Jerusalem TheaterWorld's largest open air theater spans 24 acres and hosts a massive recreation of the Passion of ChristSpanning 24 acres, New Jerusalem Theater seems more like a medieval castle...
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