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Santa Barbara, California

Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park

Colorful Native American paintings are hidden within this small cavern.
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Monticello, Utah

Newspaper Rock

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.
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Khlong Wan, Thailand

Phone Booth Graveyard

This small patch of land is the final resting for these communication relics of the past.
Added by MrOlsson
Florence, Italy

Michelangelo's Hidden Drawings

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.
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Pirgi, Greece

Pyrgi

This medieval "painted village" is famous for its geometric facades.
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Chicago, Illinois

Myopic Books

A Bibliophile's Dream.
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Renaissance Book Shop

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.
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Alnwick, England

Barter Books

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.
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Toronto, Ontario

The Monkey's Paw

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.
Added by Donia Varghese
London, England

Word on the Water

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.
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Flateyri, Iceland

Flateyri Bookstore

The oldest bookstore in Iceland.
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Chicago, Illinois

Quimby's Bookstore

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.
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Bucharest, Romania

Cărturești Carusel Bookstore

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.
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Lemmon, South Dakota

Petrified Wood Park

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.
Added by KG
Regent, North Dakota

Enchanted Highway Sculptures

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.
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Malakwa, British Columbia

The Enchanted Forest

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.
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Luxor, Egypt

Colossi of Memnon

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.
Kerry Wolfe Added by Kerry Wolfe
Naalehu, Hawaii

Kamilo Beach

Formerly a lovely white sand beach this Hawaiian stretch is now a trap for countless tons of trash.
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Hawaii

Punalu`u Black Sand Beach

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.
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Hilo, Hawaii

Kaumana Lava Tubes

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.
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Hilo, Hawaii

Mauna Kea

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.
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Captain Cook, Hawaii

The Painted Church

A priest with no formal artistic training used basic house paint to create gorgeous religious scenes inside this historic church.
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Kailua, Hawaii

Ocean Rider Seahorse Farm

Get up close and personal with these majestic fish.
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Kailua-Kona, Hawaii

Keahole Point Blowhole

This unusual lava tube spouts seawater during high surf.
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