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Vardzia Cave Monastery
Vardzia Cave MonasteryUnderground monastery and fortressThe underground halls of the "mountain queen," dug out of the solid rock, Vardzia looks like it was taken directly from the pages of Lord of the...
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Safdarjung Airport
Safdarjung AirportThe former Willingdon Airport started operations in 1929, in India's capital, Delhi. Now, it's used for maintenance runs and helicopter rides. Used extensively in WWII, what used to...
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Westford Poe Marker
Westford Poe MarkerA monument in a town outside of Boston celebrates the visits of Edgar Allan PoeIn a small copse of trees off to the side of the front lawn of a private, two-story white house in...
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Krasnaya Sloboda (Qırmızı QƏsƏbƏ)
Krasnaya Sloboda (Qırmızı QƏsƏbƏ)What might be largest completely Jewish town in the world outside of Israel now faces dwindling numbers and empty streetsLong before the holocaust and subsequent...
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Blue Lagoon
Blue LagoonMedicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plantThe lava fields by the Svartsengi geothermal plant were accidentally transformed into a spa in the 1970s. Discharged...
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Guildford Lido
Guildford LidoThis public pool is one of the last remaining lidos of the countless built in the 1930's as public works projects in the United KingdomOriginally built in the 1930's as part of an...
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Hiroshima's Hypocenter
Hiroshima's HypocenterA plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over HiroshimaOn August 6th, 1945, the atomic bomb "Little Boy" exploded roughly 180 meters (590...
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Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Museum
Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Museum A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry The title of the museum "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" immediately gives you a...
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Eisriesenwelt
EisriesenweltAn ice cave considered by Austrian lore to be the entrance to hell is the largest of its kind in the worldNear Salzburg, Austria, the home of the real life Von Trapp family, another kind...
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The Oldest Chunk of Rock in the World
The Oldest Chunk of Rock in the WorldThe 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought. Here’s something to really piss off the creationists: the...
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Kovac Planetarium
Kovac Planetarium One determined man's homemade universeIn 1996, Frank Kovac was frustrated with not being able to see the sky. On a Boy Scout trip to the Mud Creek Observatory in Wisconsin, Kovac and...
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Jason's Haunts
Jason's HauntsNew Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmedReleased in 1981, just a year after its predecessor, Friday the 13th, Part 2 takes place five years after the...
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Bronze Bathers
Bronze BathersThe most playful of the life-sized statues that make up Singapore's "People of the River"Early life on the Singapore River was an innocent time, and while that time is now lost in the...
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Poenari Castle
Poenari CastleThe legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the ImpalerEven without its bloody historic ties, Poenari Castle, also known as Poenari Fortress, would be a...
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!Tens of thousands of flying foxes (a cat-size version of the fruit bat) have set up camp in the central Sydney Royal Botanic...
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Bridge on Neretva
Bridge on NeretvaA bridge destroyed three times: once as a ruse, then in an actual attack, and finally for the moviesDuring the Second World War, Bosnia was the scene of some of the fiercest battles...
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Jules Lavirotte 's 29 Avenue Rapp
Jules Lavirotte 's 29 Avenue RappA scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the centuryThose who think that Hector Guimard was the only eccentric architect to...
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Arles's Cryptoporticous
Arles's CryptoporticousA unique underground structure dating back to the 1st century BC.Once the foundation for the forum, the cryptoporticus in the French city of Arles dates back to the 1st century...
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Neptune's Grotto
Neptune's GrottoStalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit caveIn the 18th century, a local fisherman from Sardinia spotted an opening in a cliff side while fishing off the coast. The opening,...
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Vestiges of the Berlin Wall
Vestiges of the Berlin WallOn the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the peopleThe infamous wall that separated East and West Berlin...
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