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springer

From my childhood days, I have wanted to know what was beyond the horizon. After Twentytwo and a half years in the US Navy and thirty-plus years traveling the globe since retiring I have managed to see Lands, which I could have only dreamed about as a child. Meeting people along the way and trying to understand their culture has been an extra benefit. To this day I still have friends I made fifty + years ago in distant countries. Travel broadens one's mind and outlook on life. One must but take the first step.

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Port Arthur, Australia

Port Arthur Penal Colony

Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.

Added by saintsithney

Washington, D.C.

Defense Intelligence Agency Museum

Amid the sprawling Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is one of Washington's least accessible museums.

Edward Denny

Added by Edward Denny

Washington, D.C.

The Tabulating Machine Co.

The early data processor factory founded in Washington for the 1890 U.S. Census went on to become IBM.

Elliot Carter

Added by Elliot Carter

The Iron Palace

Did Gustav Eiffel design this enigmatic metal building?

Added by losthermarbles

Piton Sainte-Rose, Réunion

Notre Dame des Laves

At the foot of an active volcano sits a church miraculously spared by its lava.

PHarkin

Added by PHarkin

Trou de Fer (The Iron Hole)

At the center of an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean is a deep chasm ringed by tall waterfalls.

Added by patrice

Stanley, England

Causey Arch

The world’s oldest surviving single-arch railway bridge.

Global Sightseer

Added by Global Sightseer

Gateshead, England

Dunston Staiths

The largest timber structure in Europe.

Dr Alan P Newman

Added by Dr Alan P Newman

Newcastle upon Tyne, England

The Vampire Rabbit of Newcastle

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

WanderingFool

Added by WanderingFool

Newcastle upon Tyne, England

Lit & Phil

This gorgeous space is England's largest independent library outside of London.

Kerry Wolfe

Added by Kerry Wolfe

Newcastle upon Tyne, England

St. Mary's Well, Jesmond

A famous pilgrimage site that remains hidden in the midst of a city.

TrinityWildcat

Added by TrinityWildcat

Newcastle upon Tyne, England

Benwell Roman Temple

This Roman archeological site is hidden amid a 1930s housing estate.

katielou106

Added by katielou106

The Hobbit Café

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

isaacschultz

Added by isaacschultz

Holbrook, Arizona

The Plotz Plot

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

Josh

Durham, England

The Lanchester Diploma

The 2,000-year-old pieces of metal are an ancient soldier's military discharge papers.

SEANETTA

Added by SEANETTA

Thanks-Giving Square

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

OutsideSuburbia

Added by OutsideSuburbia

Paradise, Texas

The Lost Arm of F. Stewart

In Paradise Cemetery resides a mysterious headstone with a strange inscription.

Added by T Greyhavens

Northumberland, England

The Cement Menagerie

A father's love for his son has weathered the test of time in this whimsical garden of outsider art.

VeloObscura

Added by VeloObscura

Northumberland, England

St. Nicholas Church House

Decaying 18th-century church converted to a single-family home.

serflac

Added by serflac

London, England

Carting Lane Sewer Lamp

The pretty iron lamp is a reminder of the architecture underneath London's streets.

jessicahester1

Added by jessicahester1

Glasgow, Scotland

Duke of Wellington Statue

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

nmcclure85

Added by nmcclure85

Glasgow, Scotland

St. Valentine’s Bones

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

HJHausman

Added by HJHausman

Haddington, Scotland

St Martin’s Kirk

These ruins of a medieval church are full of architectural mysteries.

linkogecko

Added by linkogecko

Flagstaff, Arizona

Humphreys Peak

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

thomasharper

Added by thomasharper