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Paris, France

Le Louxor Palais du Cinema

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.
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Paris, France

Le Timgad

Travel back in time at a Moroccan-inspired restaurant that was the height of glamor in the 1970s.
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Paris, France

The One-Two-Two

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.
Semey, Kazakhstan

Dostoevsky's Desk

The Russian author's writing desk remains inside the house where he spent part of his Siberian exile.
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Paris, France

Chez Aline

Grab a life-changing ham sandwich at this former horse butchershop.
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Paris, France

La Bague de Kenza

This Algerian sweet shop serves confections in an eye-popping array of hues.
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Paris, France

Chez Bob de Tunis

Fully loaded, Tunisian-style sandwiches are on the menu at this unassuming hole-in-the-wall.
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Paris, France

Shakespeare and Company

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.
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Paris, France

World's Oldest Basketball Court

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.
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Henderson, Nevada

The Simpsons House

Originally built as a promotional giveaway, this suburban house was designed to be an IRL version of the Simpson home.
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Henderson, Nevada

Dinosaur House

A retired schoolteacher in suburban Nevada transformed his front yard into a paleontological menagerie.
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London, England

British Dental Museum

The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.
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London, England

The Cartoon Museum

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.
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London, England

Wellington Arch

Once designed as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, this structure was later relocated and stands as a victory arch.
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London, England

YMCA Indian Student Hostel

It’s fun to stay at the YMCA… but at this London outpost, it’s even more fun to eat the Bombay aloo.
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London, England

King Henry's Mound

It is against the law to obstruct the view from the top of this English burial mound.
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London, England

Horizon Insects

London's first edible insect farm offers facility tours and cooking classes.
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London, England

Strawberry Hill

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'
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London, England

The London Library

More than a million titles fill the labyrinthine shelves of this prestigious private library.
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London, England

The Imperial War Museum London

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.
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London, England

Euston's Lost Tunnels

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.
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London, England

The Churchill War Rooms

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.
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Paris, France

Gustave Eiffel's Secret Apartment

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.
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Paris, France

The Room of Endangered and Extinct Species

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.
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