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Los Angeles, California

Institute For Figuring

This hands-on math museum believes in turning concepts into constructs.
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Los Angeles, California

The Last Bookstore

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.
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Nouméa, New Caledonia

Jean Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center

Marvel of green building techniques that sings with the wind.
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Kaukapakapa, New Zealand

Electrum

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.
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Lake Tarawera, New Zealand

Te Wairoa Buried Village

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.
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Takaka, New Zealand

Te Waikoropupu Springs

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.
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Los Alamos, New Mexico

Black Hole of Los Alamos

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.
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Santa Rosa, New Mexico

Santa Rosa Blue Hole

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.
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Los Angeles, California

Space Shuttle Endeavour

The final resting place of a space program monolith.
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Tokyo, Japan

Mohri Garden Pond

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.
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Cedar Crest, New Mexico

TWA Flight 260 Crash Site

Deadly airliner crash preserved for those willing to climb and pay respects.
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Los Angeles, California

Griffith Observatory's Tesla Coil

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.
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Shoreham, New York

Tesla's Wardenclyffe Laboratory

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.
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Monrovia, Liberia

Abandoned Ducor Hotel

Empty since 1989, now falling into ruin.
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Humboldt County, California

Avenue of the Giants

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.
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Nara, Japan

Tōdai-ji Daibutsuden (The Great Buddha Hall)

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.
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Kyoto, Japan

Yokai Street

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.
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Nara, Japan

Nara Dreamland

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.
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Alta, Norway

Sorrisniva Igloo Hotel

The world's northernmost ice hotel.
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Atlanta, Georgia

CDC Museum

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.
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Furth im Wald, Germany

Drachenstich-Festspiele

Each year, Germany's "City of Dragons" slays the world's largest walking robot.
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