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Tarragona, Spain

Pont del Diable

Stunning Roman aqueduct used for 1900 years and still standing.
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Namibia

Welwitschia

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.
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Zacatecas, Mexico

Hotel Quinta Real

Hotel designed around a 16th century Mexican bullring.
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Buttala, Sri Lanka

Kumbuk River Resort

Spend the night inside a two-story elephant villa.
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Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

Giant Ruhnama

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.
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Nokhur, Turkmenistan

Nokhur Cemetery

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.
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Berlin, Germany

Badeschiff

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.
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Thaton District, Myanmar (Burma)

Kyaiktiyo Pagoda

A precariously perched golden rock defies gravity and brings pilgrims from across Myanmar.
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Camelle, Spain

Museum of the German

Open air sculptures by an eccentric and loin-clothed hermit.
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Providenciales and West Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands

Chalk Sound Blue Hole

A 220-foot deep watery drop-off, filled with marine life.
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L'Arboç, Spain

La Giralda de L’Arboç

Replica of Seville, Spains famous Giralda, a former minaret converted into a bell tower.
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Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei

Istana Nurul Iman

1800 rooms of single-family residence in Brunei.
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Boston, Massachusetts

Forest Hills Cemetery

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.
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Castellcir, Spain

Castle Stern - Castell de la Popa

These striking ruins of a castle resemble a ship's stern.
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Vilanova de Sau, Spain

Sant Romà de Sau

A Romanesque tower appears when water levels drop.
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Dorset, England

Old Harry Rocks

65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.
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Charmouth, England

Charmouth Beach

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.
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Naalehu, Hawaii

Papakōlea Beach

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawai'i.
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El Hierro, Spain

Hotel Puntagrande

Teeny tiny hotel on the coast of the Canary Islands.
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U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado

Cadet Chapel

Air Force Academy Chapel made of 100 identical tetrahedrons works to inspire those of all religions.
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Pucallpa, Peru

Usko Ayar

Art school in the Amazon: Drugs, nature and sustainable agriculture.
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Knoxville, Tennessee

William M. Bass Forensic Anthropology Center

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.
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Callanna, Australia

Mutonia Sculpture Park

Lonely industrial sculptures in South Australia created by a mechanic turned artist.
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Nariño, Colombia

Las Lajas Sanctuary

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.
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