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Pilchowice, Poland

Pilchowice Hydroelectic Dam

The tallest stone dam in Poland was opened by Kaiser Wilhelm II himself.
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Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

Cijin Shell Gallery

This seaside museum boasts a colorful collection of over 3,000 shells, the largest in Taiwan.
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Crawford, Scotland

Crawford Castle

These crumbling ruins are all that's left of the ancestral home of Clan Crawford.
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Florence, Italy

Il Fatidico Sgabello

Florence’s archaeological museum displays an ordinary stool that once shattered one of its most prized artifacts.
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Lenexa, Kansas

Lake Lenexa Dam and Spillway

An artistically engineered dam designed to honor the relationship between humankind and nature.
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Jacksonville, Florida

African Jew Museum

Tucked away in Jacksonville's oldest neighborhood, this museum stands as a repository and celebration of outsider art.
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Chattanooga, Tennessee

Bench Avenue

When local government began removing public benches, the public pushed back, and vibrant, community-built seating now outnumbers the official shelters at Chattanooga bus stops.
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Nanjo, Japan

Valley of Gangala

Once a huge limestone cave that collapsed thousands of years ago, this scenic ravine is also an important archaeological site.
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Portsmouth, England

Charles Dickens Statue

A rare full-sized statue of one of Britain's famous writers.
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Easton, Massachusetts

Selee Satanic Mill Marker

A sign marks the location of an 18th-century sawmill allegedly owned by a wizard who employed Satanic imps.
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Ruse, Bulgaria

Pantheon of National Revival Heroes

A Soviet-style monument, built after transferring the remains of heroes from their graves.
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Kamakura, Japan

Prince Morinaga's Dungeon

The alleged site of the months-long imprisonment of a Japanese prince.
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Globe, Arizona

Besh-Ba-Gowah Archaeological Park and Museum

The remains of a large pueblo village constructed by the Salado culture, who occupied the region more than 600 years ago.
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Busot, Spain

Ethnic Music Museum of Busot

A private collector gathered these sound machines and musical instruments across five continents.
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Riola, Italy

Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta

A design by master architect Alvar Aalto in a small village in the Apennines near Bologna.
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Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

The British Consulate at Takow

This historic 19th-century building was the center of British trade and diplomacy in Taiwan.
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Stavanger, Norway

Stavanger Astronomical Society Observatory

Peer into the night sky with one of Norway's oldest associations of land-based space explorers.
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Cologne, Germany

Tünnes und Schäl

Life-sized bronze statues of fictional puppet characters.
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Køge, Denmark

Køge Huskors Memorial

This marker commemorates a long-lasting historical haunting and demonic possession that led to one of Denmark's worst witch trials.
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Lead, South Dakota

Homestake Open Cut

Before its closure in 2002, this South Dakota mine was the largest and deepest gold mine in Western Hemisphere.
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Kerċem, Malta

Gozo Aqueduct

This 19th-century aqueduct provides insights into how water was supplied to Victoria on the island of Gozo before modern plumbing.
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Shiraoi, Japan

Upopoy (National Ainu Museum and Park)

Learn about the indigenous people of Japan's northernmost islands.
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Naha, Japan

Inshallah

For half a century, this Arabian-inspired retro café has been an oasis for locals in Okinawa’s central tourist area.
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Upton, New York

Brookhaven Gamma Forest

Starting in 1961, Brookhaven National Labs regularly irradiated a section of forest with a canister of Cesium-137 to study the effects of hard gamma radiation on an ecosystem.
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