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Bangkok's Ghost Tower: The Sathorn Unique

Bangkok's Ghost Tower: The Sathorn UniqueOn stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.The Sathorn Unique skyscraper is among the major...

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Stavanger Cathedral

Stavanger CathedralNorway's oldest cathedral still in useStavanger Cathedral is the oldest cathedral in Norway. Originally built in the early 1100s, it has been in continuous use for the last seven...

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Ed Leedskalnin's Coral Castle

Ed Leedskalnin's Coral CastleA mysterious castle built as a monument to lost loveThere are many motivations to create one's own castle. Divine inspiration, as a way of cheating death, as a monument to...

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Firewater Pond

Firewater PondThe subtle interplay of fire and water is hard to ignore at this remote Jamaican springFire springs take rare and varying forms. The Yanar Bulag fire spring in Azerbaijan comes from water...

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Museo de la Medicina Mexicana

Museo de la Medicina Mexicana A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other gross ailments throughout Mexican history.Museo de la Medicina Mexicana isn’t the kind of museum that you visit to see...

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Brigits Celtic Garden

Brigits Celtic GardenThe world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre gardenThemed on the Celtic seasonal festivals, Brigit's Garden is widely regarded as one of the...

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El Cañón de Talayuelas

El Cañón de Talayuelas A fiery-red region of scooped out land still largely untouched by civilization, tourists or otherwise.The Bullring. It's a term that conjures images of sunbaked sandstone...

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Byblos Art Hotel

Byblos Art HotelSleep amongst an abundance of art from the modern eraIf Romeo and Juliet had survived their wedding night, this might have been where they would have spent it. The Byblos Art Hotel is a...

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City

CityOne of the largest sculptures ever createdAt eighty feet high, a quarter of a mile wide, and one and a quarter miles long, the sculpture City is roughly the scale of the national mall in...

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Relampago del Catatumbo

Relampago del CatatumboThis everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozoneThere's something strange in the air where the Catatumbo River flows into Lake Maracaibo in...

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Dog Collar Museum

Dog Collar MuseumMuseum showcases canine neckwear spanning five centuries of doggie fashion and functionServing many purposes, from identification to functioning as a leash anchor to showcasing the...

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The Cloisters of the Ancient Spanish Monastery

The Cloisters of the Ancient Spanish MonasterySt Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest building in the Western HemisphereThese Spanish cloisters built in Spain...

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Obelisk - Cleopatra’s Needle

Obelisk - Cleopatra’s NeedleAn ancient giant from far-away Egypt stands in modern day Central ParkDuring the 19th century, three Ancient Egyptian obelisks, all popularly referred to as “Cleopatra's...

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The Last Two Bois Dentelle Trees

The Last Two Bois Dentelle TreesOnly two of these trees remain in the natural world, found high in the cloud forest of a Mauritius islandKnown as the Bois Dentelle or Elaeocarpus Bojeri, it is a...

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Toboggan Ride from Monte to Funchal

Toboggan Ride from Monte to FunchalMen in rubber-soled boots serve as your "brakes" on this toboggan ride Hemingway described as "exhilarating"While you could get from the Portuguese town of Funchal...

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Gallery of Maps - Galleria delle Carte Geografiche

Gallery of Maps - Galleria delle Carte GeograficheBreathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of ItalyPredating a unified Italy by nearly 300 years, the gallery of maps at the Vatican shows the length and...

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The Gehry Buildings of Dusseldorf Harbor

The Gehry Buildings of Dusseldorf HarborTwisted buildings adorn the banks of the Rhine riverA lot of harbor towns have seen better days. As developed economies change and resources realign, industries...

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Miniatur Wunderland

Miniatur WunderlandModel Trains and Much More in HamburgHamburg, famous for its hats and ground meat products, does not immediately make one think of model trains. However, the German city is home to...

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Salar de Maras

Salar de MarasA series of 3,000 wells have been used to collect salt since the time of the IncasWhile the salt mines are set up for tourism, complete with little shops selling bottled water, felt...

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The Fireproof housing of Shirahige-Higashi district

The Fireproof housing of Shirahige-Higashi districtDisaster prevention apartment blocks in Sumida Ward are designed to save as many as possible in the face of the inevitableThe famous Mukojima district...

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