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The Akasaka Love Hotel
The Akasaka Love HotelThe gaudy ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love HotelIn Japan 'Love Hotels' are a lot like roadside motels, designed with the express purpose of facilitating 'relations' between...
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Tengzug Shrine
Tengzug ShrineTopless shrine of northern GhanaThe Talensis people of Northern Ghana require you to be topless to observe one of their sacred rituals. With the smell of animal blood and feces bombarding...
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Antogo Fishing Frenzy
Antogo Fishing FrenzyAnnual rush for a sacred desert lake's fish stockOnce a year, the people of the Dogon rush the sacred Antogo Lake in Mali. In a flurry of activity, the Dogon grab at the water...
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New Vrindaban Palace of Gold
New Vrindaban Palace of GoldDespite its lavish ornamentation, Krishna might be quite disappointed with this mountain commune's moral composition.New Vrindaban is a Hare Krishna community nestled in the...
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Le Cyclop
Le CyclopJean Tinguely's bizarre monster sculpture is hidden deep in a forestIn the sleepy village of Milly-la-Forêt, France, lies a monstrous, whimsical monument called Le Cyclop. Measuring almost 75...
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The Amazing Robots of Wu Yulu
The Amazing Robots of Wu YuluA chinese farmer builds robots from scrapIn 1986 the movie Short Circuit came out and hit number one at the box office. It was the story of lovable robot Johnny 5, and...
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Big Island Lava Flow
Big Island Lava FlowWatch the newest land on the planet form before your eyesUsually, when speaking of geological phenomena, one speaks of time in "aeons” or references events as "prehistoric." But on...
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Gotland
Gotland Largest island in the Baltic Sea experiences such idyllic weather that roses bloom in the middle of DecemberGotland, also called the Island of Roses because of its idyllic climate, is temperate...
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Mayfield Park
Mayfield Park Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahensAdded to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994, what would become known as the Mayfield-Gutsch Estate was purchased...
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Davelis Cave on Pendeli Mountain
Davelis Cave on Pendeli MountainHideout of thieves, monks, and goat-footed godsOne of the most mysterious places in Athens is rarely ever visited. This is in part because there is so much superstition...
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The Mithraeum at Circus Maximus
The Mithraeum at Circus MaximusThe underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cultOne of the largest secret Mithraic temples in Rome is hidden next to the famous Circus Maximus. Discovered in 1931...
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externsteine
externsteineBetween Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis these strange rock formations have a curious cult following, and a very strange historyExternsteine, translated variously as "stones of the Egge" or, less...
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Kiev Monastery of the Caves and Microminiature Museum
Kiev Monastery of the Caves and Microminiature MuseumThis 1000 year old relic-filled cave monastery and UNESCO World Heritage Site also hosts an amazing micro-miniature museumThe Kiev Pechersk Lavra in...
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Temple of Mithras
Temple of MithrasRebuilt remains of a temple to the Zoroastrian god MithrasConspiracy theorists the world over look at major financial centers for signs of secret societies. Long before IIluminati,...
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Crypt At Center Church-on-the-Green
Crypt At Center Church-on-the-Green137 graves holding New England's earliest residentsKnown as one of New Haven's best kept secrets, the crypt at Center Church-on-the-Green is an ancient cemetery with...
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Ascension Island
Ascension IslandRemote, volcanic island that Darwin, Hooker, and the Royal Navy shaped into a thriving, artificial ecosystemAscension Island is just a dot on the globe: a tiny chunk of cinder, 90...
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Solar One and Solar Two
Solar One and Solar TwoDecommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technologyOut in the Mojave Desert, the glint of the hundreds of reflectors at solar power plants are...
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The Goat Tower of Fairview Cheese & Wine farm
The Goat Tower of Fairview Cheese & Wine farmThe original goat tower, the one that started it all The thing about goats, is that they really like to climb stuff. Goats have been known to climb up...
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The Athenian Agora
The Athenian AgoraThis ancient Greek "place of assembly" and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscapeLying right beneath the northern slope of Athens’s Acropolis...
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Jeremy Bentham's Auto-Icon
Jeremy Bentham's Auto-IconThe remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a cabinet in LondonWhen the moral philosopher Jeremy Bentham died in 1832, he left a will with specific instructions...
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