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Pingualuit Crater Lake in Canada
The almost perfectly circular lake of the Ungava Peninsula of Quebec, Canada was formed by a meteorite plummeting from space and impacting the earth almost 1.4 million years ago. It is surrounded by a...
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Chippewa Falls Christmas Village in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin
The residents of Chippawa Falls are very serious about their Christmas traditions.Every year on Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) Chippewa Falls is transformed into a Christmas Wonderland....
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Lake Hillier in Australia
From a distance, Lake Hillier of Australia's Recherche Archipelago looks like a swath of solid bubble-gum pink. Draw closer, and the color takes on a more watery, translucent quality, but remains...
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Mare Island Naval Cemetery in Vallejo, California
Hidden away on Mare Island in Vallejo is the Bay Area's oldest Naval cemetery, the final resting place of sailors and soldiers and loved ones--and one convicted killer.Burials began at this hillside...
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Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, California
In 1906 San Francisco was rocked by earthquake, then nearly destroyed by fires which burned most of the financial district, downtown, civic center, and south of Market areas to the ground.Over the...
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77 Water Street in New York, New York
To the untrained eye, 77 Water Street looks more or less like any other unremarkable office building in New York's Financial District.Take a closer look, however, and you might begin to notice some...
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Ruins of King Zog's Estate in Syosset, New York
Originally built for Charles I. Hudson between 1906 and 1920, the once-magnificent Knollwood Estate was purchased by Albania's King Zog in 1951. While the estate awaited the monarch who would never...
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Phlegraean Fields in Campi Flegrei Regional Park, Italy
The ground moves, the earth shakes, and scalding, stinking steam rises from hissing fissures in one of the most seismically active volcanic landscapes on Earth.Home to Vulcan, the Roman god of fire,...
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Ghost Fleet of Truk Lagoon in Micronesia
For two days in 1944, Allied bombers rained destruction on the beaches of the Caroline Islands in the South Pacific. During World War II, the lagoon was host to Japan's Imperial fleet, which left...
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Van Cortlandt Park Monoliths in Bronx, New York
On the side of a walking trail in a wooded Bronx park sits a row of small monoliths made up of a variety of stones, evenly spaced, with no markings except the familiar run of graffiti.The stones exude...
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Kansas Barbed Wire Museum in La Crosse, Kansas
What killed the open range of the Wild West? Was it guns? Horses? Gold? Nope. It was the innovation popularly known as the "Devil's Rope".The evolution of barbed wire transformed the western United...
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Wreck of the HMS Bounty in Bounty Bay, Pitcairn Island (UK)
"I am now unhappily to relate one of the most atrocious acts of Piracy ever committed...“Christian... then said—‘Come captain Bligh, your officers and men are now in the boat, and you must go with...
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Lucin in Lucin, Utah
Lucin is an abandoned railroad community on the western side of the Great Salt Lake, which was founded in the late 19th century about 10 miles north of its current location, then moved in 1903 to serve...
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Le Train Bleu Restaurant in New York, New York
The idea of heading to Bloomingdale’s conjures up images of high-end clothing, housewares, and well-heeled shoppers. But those who wander up to the sixth floor of the flagship Bloomingdale's store in...
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767 Third Avenue in New York, New York
Public chess matches in New York City are about as common as pigeons; stop by any of the city's many parks and you'll likely find a handful of aficionados gazing intently at the board before them. But...
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Knight's Spider Web Farm in Williamstown, Vermont
Will Knight's Spider Web Farm, the only one in the world, is a rather small operation.Two garage-sized barns are packed with wooden frames, built in grids, hanging from the ceiling. These square frames...
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The Mariner's Museum in Newport News, Virginia
Established in the 1930’s by Archer Milton Huntington and Homer L. Ferguson, the Mariner’s Museum is a truly impressive collection of world Maritime History. Boasting over 60,000 square feet of...
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Center for PostNatural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Center for PostNatural History aims to fill the gaping omission left by typical natural history museums.Traditional museums document organisms as they naturally live and develop in their...
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Great Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe
The ruins of this once-magnificent city are rich in historical significance, architectural wonders, and unsolved mysteries.Until fairly recently, the origin of Great Zimbabwe was a contentious issue...
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Untermyer Park in Yonkers, New York
Once among the world's most celebrated gardens, this beautiful but long-neglected park was allegedly a hotspot for satanic cults in 1970's New York. In their heyday during the 1920's and 1930's, the...
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