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Guellala, Tunisia

Biggest Jar in the World

This jar honors the role that pottery has played in this Tunisian village over the past millennia.
Quintanar de la Orden, Spain

Carved Stone Milestones

These milestones have survived centuries and still mark distances although incorrectly.
Salisbury, England

Pepperbox Hill Tower

A doorless and windowless folly in England that evokes curiosity over its mysterious origins.
Al Hamra, Oman

Al Hoota Cave

The biggest cave system in the Arabian Peninsula is home to a rare variety of blind fish.
McMurdo Station, Antarctica

Castle Rock

This uniquely shaped slab of volcanic rock has been used by generations of Antarctic explorers.
Madrid, Spain

Inscriptions on the Pavement of Huertas Street

Along the pavement of this neighborhood in Madrid are quotes from famous authors.
Lake Tekapo, New Zealand

Church of the Good Shepherd

This charming stone church on the shore of Lake Tekapo is an icon in astrophotography.
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

Andy Gump Statue

An unusual statue in Wisconsin of the first daily comic strip character.
Genoa, Italy

Mackenzie Castle

This Gothic revival structure has been a family home, a military base, a gymnastics center, and is now owned by one of the largest auction houses in Italy.
Vilnius, Lithuania

Bėgių Parkas (Railway Park)

A wide array of locomotives call this outdoor museum home.
Caesarea, Israel

Birds Mosaic

These mosaics were created more than half a millennium ago and feature various animals.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philly Typewriter

Welcome to the home of the world's largest typewriter company.
Prague, Czechia

Prague Hlavni Nadrazi Vestibule

A historic and beautiful Art Nouveau chamber in a historic railway station.
Bordeaux, France

Réservoir de Lavardens

A very uncommon water tank standing in the middle of the grapevines in Bordeaux nearly a century after its construction.
Kragujevac, Serbia

'Smak'

Four monuments dedicated to the legendary band in Serbia.
Bastia, France

Chapel Notre Dame de Monserato

A 15th-century Corsican chapel that possesses a rare Catholic monument: a "Scala Santa," or "Holy Stairs."
Prague, Czechia

Rotonde Saint-Martin (St Martin’s Rotunda)

The largest and best-preserved rotunda in Prague.
Athens, Greece

Church of the Holy Apostle Philip at Vlassarous

This church was constructed on the site where St. Philip the Apostle preached to the ancient Athenians.
Keswick, England

Hundred Year Stone

This unusual sculpture is sometimes partially, sometimes fully, submerged.
Bangkok, Thailand

The Standing Buddha

This statue took 60 years to complete.
Chicago, Illinois

Bob Newhart Statue

Honoring the star of the “The Bob Newhart Show” which took place in the city of Chicago in the 1970s.
Colorado Springs, Colorado

Magic Town

Experience life in one of America’s smallest neighborhoods.
Quailburn, New Zealand

Omarama Clay Cliffs

Towering earthen formations that rise straight out of the ground in New Zealand .
St. Thomas am Blasenstein, Austria

Luftg'selchter Pfarrer (The Air-Dried Priest)

In a crypt underneath this church lies a naturally mummified vicar whose story is surrounded by mystery.