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Bishop Tuff in Inyo County, California
Hundreds of thousands of years in the past when the Long Valley Caldera was created by violent volcanic action, the ultra hot lava flows created California's Bishop Tuff tableland range, an...
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Craftsmanship Museum in Carlsbad, California
Established in 2006, the Craftsmanship Museum is both a workshop and display gallery for miniature working engines, machines, and the singular custom tools required to made them.There is a whole...
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Pappy and Harriet's Pioneertown Palace in Pioneertown, California
Pioneertown wasn't always a real town, but it is now. Only a real town would have its own honky-tonk, right?Pioneertown was an elaborate film set built in the 1940's deep in the high desert, a Wild...
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The Burlington Hotel in Port Costa, California
The Burlington Hotel is the oldest operating hotel in California, a throwback to an exciting era of unruly railroad workers and busy ports.The Burlington Hotel opened its doors in 1883 at the height of...
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The Secret Entrance to the Knickerbocker Hotel in Manhattan, New York
Deep in the subway system below Times Square and passed by thousands of commuters and tourists everyday lies an unnoticed white door.Tucked away on the north end of Platform 1 on the Grand...
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The Fairy Stream in Mui Ne, Vietnam
Known mainly for its sand dunes, the small town of Mui Ne in Vietnam is also home to a soft red creek known as the Fairy Stream that is colored by the clay and limestone particles that filter in from...
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Spectre Set Ruins in Montgomery , Alabama
Resting near the banks of the Alabama river is the fictional town of Spectre, Alabama, although all that remains of the bucolic burg are the crumbling husks of the film sets the town was built as. In...
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Brighton Waste House in Brighton, United Kingdom
Built on the campus of the University of Brighton, the squat structure known as the Waste House is an almost joyous attempt to create a whole building using recycled, thrown away, or found items to...
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Fisher Museum Forestry Dioramas in Petersham, Massachusetts
Since 1907, Harvard University has managed 3,000 acres of woodlands in western Massachusetts that serve as the field lab and research center for the University's graduate forestry program and in the...
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Barcelona Supercomputing Center in Barcelona , Spain
What was once a hallowed place of worship known as the Torre Girona is now the home of a the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, filling the expansive main hall with banks of futuristic computer equipment...
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South Slope of Mount Frissell in Salisbury, Connecticut
The highest point in Connecticut is on the southern shoulder of Mount Frissell which crosses the state's northern border at 2,380 feet above sea level, but the official plaque was incorrectly placed on...
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Mystic Seaport in Stonington, Connecticut
A veritable mecca for lovers of boats, sailing, and the open water, the Mystic Seaport is the largest maritime museum in the entire world with multiple protected, landmark vessels, a working 19th...
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Manzanar National Historic Site in Manzanar, California
Beginning in 1942 the government of the United States rounded up more than 110,000 Japanese-American citizens and placed them in brutalist encampments where many spent years. Ten camps were created all...
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Mount Katahdin in Piscataquis County, Maine
"Man is born to die. His works are short-lived. Buildings crumble, monuments decay, wealth vanishes. But Katahdin in all its glory, forever shall remain the mountain of the people of Maine." - Percival...
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Yankee Ferry in Brooklyn, New York
A master at the art of adaptation, Yankee Ferry has carried millions of passengers over the course of her long and illustrious maritime career.Built as Machigonne in 1907, Yankee Ferry served as a...
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The Vampire Rabbit of Newcastle in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
The Vampire Rabbit of Newcastle is a mysterious grotesque that has perched above the ornate rear door of the historic Cathedral Buildings, facing the rear of St Nicholas Cathedral for over a hundred...
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Hundertwasser Toilets in Kawakawa, New Zealand
World famous artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser's final project was a set of public toilets in the small New Zealand town of Kawakawa where he spent his final years, and those toilets are still open...
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New York's Oldest Phone Number in Manhattan, New York
New York's oldest still working phone number belongs to the Hotel Pennsylvania.Looking nothing like the digit sequence we use today, Pennsylvania 6-5000 was immortalized in a song by Glenn Miller and...
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The Superstition Mountain Museum in Apache Junction, Arizona
At the foot of the Superstition Mountains, the Superstition Mountain Museum is a tourist trap in the middle of the Arizona desert that remembers the filming of a number of Western films as well as...
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Jacob Riis Park Bathhouse in Queens, New York
Nicknamed the "People's Beach," Jacob Riis Park at the southern most edge of Queens was designed as a public beach that might cater to every aspect of New York's economic landscape, from its rich to...
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