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Bosco Verticale in Milan, Italy

Opened in 2014 and called "the most exciting new tower in the world," Milan's Bosco Verticale, or "vertical forest" comprises two 27-story residential high-rises teeming with cantilevered balconies and...

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The Museum of Alchemists and Magicians of Old Prague in Prague, Czech Republic

Prague is a city steeped in history both known and otherwise, and the darker side of the Czech capitol's past is brought to light in evocative displays at The Museum of Alchemists and Magicians of Old...

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Colour by Numbers in Stockholm, Sweden

In cities across the globe, color-changing lights on buildings and towers are used to celebrate everything from the Fourth of July to St. Patrick's Day, but the permanent light installation Colour by...

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Pentre Ifan in Pembrokeshire, Wales

Petre Ifan is a haunting burial stack that stands in a verdant Welsh field as one of the most complete and dramatic stone dolmens still found anywhere on the planet.The site consists of seven giant...

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St. Nicholas' Church in Hamburg, Germany

While the tall gothic tower of St. Nicholas' Church in Hamburg, Germany still pieces the skyline of the city like it did in the brief heyday when it ranked as the tallest building in the world, what...

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Atacama Giant in Tarapacá, Chile

Illustrated on a Chilean hillside known as Cerro Unitas and surrounded by thousands of smaller geoglyphs, the Atacama Giant, a massive image of a deity used to calculate the movements of the moon,...

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Free Speech Monument in Berkeley , United states

Sitting on the quad of California's Berkeley college is an unassuming monument to the Free Speech Movement that one could easily miss even though it supposedly consists of an endless tube of...

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Albino Squirrels of Olney, Illinois in Olney, Illinois

If there's one thing the citizens of Olney, Illinois are proud of, it's their population of albino squirrels.While no one is certain of exactly how these squirrels arrived in Olney, a small number of...

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Georges Head Battery in Sydney, Australia

Resting on one of Sydney, Australia's "Heads," as various points along the Sydney harbor are called, is the Georges Head Battery, a sprawling concrete military fortification that now sits...

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US Navy DC-3 Wreckage in Sólheimasandur Beach, Iceland

Just inland on the shore of Iceland's black sand Sólheimasandur Beach the rusting hulk of a crashed military plane has been slowly falling apart since the 1970s, with a little help from enterprising...

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The Morrow Plots in Urbana, Illinois

Even naturally growing crops need to be tested and tried to maximize their yield and The Morrow Plots in Urbana, Illinois is where the development of America's bold new agricultural horizons...

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Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

This historic building, rising above the ill-kept neighbourhood of São Cristóvão in Rio de Janeiro's marginalised North Zone, houses a research institute and museum dedicated to the study of the skies...

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Dalí Theatre and Museum in Figueres, Spain

Looking from the outside like a dream-logic breakfast castle with giant eggs topping the parapets, loaves of bread decorating the walls, and frightening statues nearby, the Dalí Theatre and Museum is...

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Salla Reindeer Park in Salla, Finland

Reindeer are a way of life for many of the Fins living above the Arctic Circle in Lapland.This otherworldly landscape blanked in snow with a roof of Northern Lights overhead is dotted with wild...

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Oymyakon in Oymyakonsky District, Russia

Positioned deep in Siberia, the village of Oymyakon holds the distinction of being the coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth.Just a few hundred miles from the Arctic Circle and reaching record...

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Tió de Nadal in Barcelona, Spain

Sure, putting a Christmas tree in your house seems pretty arbitrary considering the true religious context of the holiday. But beating a smiling, hollowed-out Christmas log until it “defecates” in your...

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Gerbrandy Tower in Ijsselstein, Netherlands

A combination free-standing tower and guyed mast, the Gerbrandy Tower is the tallest broadcasting tower in the Netherlands. More impressive, though, is what the tower becomes during the holiday season....

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A Christmas Story House and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio

For many Americans the 1983 film 'A Christmas Story' is the Platonic ideal of holiday entertainment, and the actual home used in the film is now restored to its cinema quality. There is even a museum...

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El Caganer in Barcelona, Spain

No doubt we are all familiar with the obligatory baby Jesus in the manger scene rolled out every Christmas, but the early 18th-century inhabitants of Catalonia, Italy, and certain areas of Southern...

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Candy Cane Lane in Los Angeles, California

Zip-lining Santas and atypical, potentially blasphemous art-mangers. That is Woodland Hills come Christmas time.Since 1952, these eight square blocks of houses have come into friendly, informal...

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