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Jug Rock

Jug RockThe only freestanding table rock formation east of the MississippiThings that look weird get names. That was just as much the case 150 years ago as it is today, if not more so. Sorry, nameless...

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Museum of Radiology

Museum of Radiology Dummies recreate radiological discoveries from history The Museum of Radiology is located in the waiting room of the Military Hospital of Brussels. While patients wait to receive...

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National Museum of Roller Skating

National Museum of Roller SkatingMuseum contains the largest collection of historical roller skates in the world, dating from 1819In 1956, Antonio Pirrello had an idea. Unsatisfied with the...

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West Wallabi Island

West Wallabi IslandThe oldest known European structures in Australia are the remnants of a story filled with mutiny, murder, jealousy and greed Sometime after midnight on June 4th 1629, “The Batavia”...

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Penis Fountain

Penis FountainAmsterdam's Red Light District leaves little to the imaginationAmsterdam is a city of permissions and tolerance, and home of one of the most famous red light districts in the world....

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The Forts of Dessalines

The Forts of DessalinesAn entire town in Haiti memorializes one man and his historic revolutionThe air was still, the moment tense. A legion of ragged, weary troops watched wide-eyed and breathless as...

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Ann Arbor’s Fairy Doors

Ann Arbor’s Fairy DoorsWhimsical portals to another worldIn 1993, While Jonathan B. Wright was renovating his century-old home, his young daughters made a delightful discovery: itty, bitty, six-inch...

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Citadelle Laferrière

Citadelle LaferrièreThis iconic fortress was once the crown jewel of Haiti's national defenseWar creates great art. You hardly ever hear that claim being made by the often-artsy peaceniks of the world,...

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Museum of Unnatural History

Museum of Unnatural HistoryGiftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humorThis is not your run of the mill museum giftshop; that is of course, unless you consider a can of...

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Vortex Spring

Vortex SpringA humid oasis combines recreation with exploration in a unique underwater cavernFreshwater and Florida isn't always a combination that conjures good feelings among the locals. More often...

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IceCube Research Station

IceCube Research StationThe world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South PoleWhen your grade-school science teacher described the various methods one can use to...

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The Wolfsonian

The WolfsonianOver 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world. The Wolfsonian- Florida International University is a museum, library, and research center in the heart of Miami Beach’s...

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Majuli Island

Majuli IslandWorlds' largest inhabited river islandThe Brahmaputra River of Assam is a mighty river. At times, the width from one bank to another is more than fifteen miles, and in the vast flowing...

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Holbein Horse

Holbein HorseA horse statue that receives constant makeovers from graffiti artists and localsThe Holbein Horse is a foal statue created by Werner Gürtner in 1936. Made of concrete and approximately as...

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Conflict Kitchen

Conflict KitchenA take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.In this world of clashing ideals and contention, there are some universal...

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Los Callejones de Las Majadas

Los Callejones de Las Majadas"Alleys of Stone" form natural mazes in Spanish natural parkForming a labyrinthian stone maze are the natural karst formations of the Los Callejones de Las Majadas or...

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Aleister Crowley ‘s Thelema Abbey

Aleister Crowley ‘s Thelema AbbeyWhere Aleister Crowley taught magik in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars" his "chamber of nightmares." In 1919 , Aleister Crowley  -  a mystic and occultist known as "The...

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Legs Inn

Legs InnLegs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Native American artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer headsPolish immigrant Stanley Smolak created the fantasy-like world of Legs Inn during...

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Sewers of Toronto

Sewers of TorontoA well-preserved network of cavernous tunnels have spent silent centuries removing Toronto's wasteIt takes a truly special set of circumstances to turn sewage into a landmark. Or, more...

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Sans Souci Palace

Sans Souci Palace Palace of Henri Christophe, a slave who became the brutal kleptocrat of HaitiThe Sans-Souci Palace was the royal residence of King Henri Christophe I of Haiti, the self imposed...

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