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Banana Ripening Facility
Banana Ripening FacilityDespite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana scienceBananas are one of the most consumed foods in...
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Auerworld Palace
Auerworld PalaceLiving trees form the structure of an open-air palaceWeaving live saplings together to form a kind of domed cathedral space, architect Marcel Kalberer and his group Sanfte Strukturen...
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Kaindy Lake
Kaindy LakeSubmerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lakeKaindy Lake is an idyllic mountain lake in Kazakhstan’s portion of the Tian Shan Mountains, close to the country’s...
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Wieliczka Salt Mine
Wieliczka Salt MineAn underground city of saltThe Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland is the epitome of technological human progress. The beginnings of the current mine are believed to have been primitively...
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Venus Point, Tahiti
Venus Point, TahitiSite of James Cook's historic observations of the 1769 transit of Venus"...we had every advantage we could desire in Observing the whole of the passage of the Planet Venus over the...
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Mütter Museum
Mütter MuseumAmerica's most famous museum of medical odditiesLocated inside the headquarters of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the Mutter has a wide range of wondrous and curious displays,...
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Makaryevsky Monastery
Makaryevsky Monastery Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry"Since 1939 a flooded bell tower near the small...
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Chernobyl's Ghost Cities
Chernobyl's Ghost CitiesVisit the abandoned towns left by the worst nuclear disaster of all timeWhen one thinks of Chernobyl, vacation spot is certainly not the first thing to come to mind. However,...
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"The Witches of Eastwick" Filming Sites
"The Witches of Eastwick" Filming SitesNew England's "Witches of east wick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.Based on the John Updike novel of the same name, the 1987 film "The...
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Dead Vlei
Dead VleiThis "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in timeIn the Namib-Naukluft National Park, in the central Namib Desert is a strange and alien landscape....
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Eternity Restaurant
Eternity RestaurantRecord-holding coffin moonlights as an eatery run by undertakers.It's hard to say what drove these Ukrainian undertakers to build a giant coffin, fill it with a bunch of...
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Museum of Vampires and Legendary Creatures
Museum of Vampires and Legendary CreaturesCome and visit the macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappingsGravel paths in the middle of Les Lilas, a...
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The Drowned Church of Potosi
The Drowned Church of PotosiA town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedesBetween 1985 and 2008, fishermen and daytrippers traveling by...
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Fossil Bone Cabin
Fossil Bone CabinA century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material - dinosaur bonesIf you head east on Highway 30 outside of Medicine Bow, Wyoming, you won't see much. Rocky...
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Maman
MamanLouise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculptureStanding outside of the Tate Modern at one point, Louise Bourgeois' extraordinary sculpture, Maman (Mother), is a 30-foot-tall spider crafted...
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Site of "The Absinthe Murders"
Site of "The Absinthe Murders"A tiny rural community in Switzerland was home to one of history's most shocking murders, and led to the banning of Absinthe for nearly a centuryAbsinthe has always been a...
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Los Jameos del Agua
Los Jameos del AguaPartially collapsed lava tube and cave system complete with concert hall, underground pond, and unique albino crabsKnown as a jameo, it is a geographic feature similar to a sink hole...
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Boot Hill Cemetery
Boot Hill Cemetery"They died with their boots on."Boot Hill Cemetery is located in downtown Tilden, Texas. Tilden was founded in 1858, and was first known as Frio Rio, and then in the early 1860s began...
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The World Discoverer
The World DiscovererThe ship that got left behindBoth eerie and impressive to behold, this half-sunken sea-liner has been lying, tipped to one side, half-submerged for over nine years. Once a...
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Un Regard Moderne Bookstore
Un Regard Moderne BookstoreA counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of ParisCan a bookstore also be an institution? If so, Un Regard Moderne is the cathedral of...
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