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16 February 2026

West Kern Oil Museum

West Kern Oil Museum (Taft, California)

When people outside California think about the San Joaquin Valley (which they rarely do), it’s often farms that fill their minds. While there are plenty of farms here, this inland region of California is also …

Giant Artichoke in Castroville, California

Giant Artichoke (Castroville, California)

Naturally low expectations are not unexpected for a restaurant that attracts tourists with a giant artichoke, but there’s a rich farming history behind Castroville, California’s Giant Artichoke. It was Spanish settlers who originally brought artichokes …

Isaac Newton's Apple Tree

Isaac Newton’s Apple Tree (Lincolnshire, England)

An old and gnarled apple tree at Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire, England would be interesting but not particularly noteworthy if it happened to live in any other place at any other time. One particular tree however …

Shoes on the Danube Bank

Shoes on the Danube Bank (Budapest, Hungary)

Located on the Pest side of the Danube Promenade, about 300 meters (980 ft) south of the Hungarian Parliament, Shoes on the Danube Bank is a memorial sculpture in Budapest, Hungary. Conceived by film director …

Spam Museum

The Spam Museum (Austin, Minnesota)

Austin, Minnesota is home to a special museum dedicated to one particular brand of canned precooked meat. The museum’s first home at Austin’s Oak Park Mall opened as the Hormel Foods First Century Museum in …

Crystal Ice House (Pensacola, Florida)

In the sunny beach town of Pensacola, Florida is the Crystal Ice House. What looks like an old timey gas station located just on the other side of a cheerful chain-link fence is actually a ...
Horace E. Dodge and Son Memorial Fountain (Detroit, Michigan)
Hash, Marihuana & Hemp Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Tybee Island, Georgia

Bábolna-McDonald’s (Budapest, Hungary)

Budapest was never a city that held tightly to the communist ideals of moderation or humility. It was more the beer drinking, rock-n-roll obsessed cousin that came to all the family gatherings but was always ...
The Bloomsbury Tavern (London, England)
Pete’s Tavern (New York, New York)
Fraunces Tavern (Manhattan, New York)

Southernmost Point in the Continental U.S. (Key West, Florida)

It should really be called “The Southernmost Point in the Continental United States that’s always above land and accessible to the public”, but that’s a little wordy and more the simply named monument stands nonetheless. ...
Eilean Donan (Scotland)

Eilean Donan (the “Island of Donan” in Gaelic) with its beautiful castle on the island has a mysterious past and is likely named for 6th century Bishop Donan who came to Scotland sometime around 580 AD. There ...
The Big Chicken (Marietta, Georgia)

Kentucky Fried Chicken is not generally known for their unique restaurant design, but in Marietta, Georgia The Big Chicken is definitely unique. Built in 1963, as Johnny Reb’s Chick, Chuck and Shake, the 56 foot ...
The Meeting of the Waters (Manaus, Brazil)

Less than 10 kilometers from the bustling city of Manaus in northern Brazil, the Meeting of the Waters (Encontro das Águas) is a confluence between two Amazon River tributaries, the Rio Negro and the Rio Solimões. ...

The Great Wall, China

The Great Wall of China is one of The New7Wonders of the World, and with its 13,171 miles (21,196 km) of length is actually a series of fortifications, earth mounds, and small connecting walls rather ...
Fraser Island (Queensland, Australia)

Off the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia at over 120 km, Fraser Island in the largest sand island in the world. Famous for its ribbons of colored sand, rocky cliffs, and freshwater pools this island ...
Uluru (Northern Territory, Australia)

Uluru, formerly known to much of the world as Ayers Rock, is a giant sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory in central Australia. The area around the formation is home ...
The Taj Mahal (Agra, India)

On the south bank of the Yamuna river in Agra, India sits the most famous mausoleum in the world. Perhaps the greatest monument ever built for love and loss, the Taj Mahal, commissioned in 1632 ...

Glenfinnan Viaduct (Glenfinnan, Scotland)

The Glenfinnan Viaduct is a railway viaduct on the West Highland Line in Glenfinnan, Inverness-shire, Scotland. Located at the top of Loch Shiel in the West Highlands of Scotland, the viaduct overlooks the Glenfinnan Monument ...
The Széchenyi Chain Bridge (Budapest, Hungary)
Sydney Harbour Bridge (Sydney, Australia)
Stari Most (Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Nine Arches Bridge (Ella, Sri Lanka)

The Space Needle (Seattle, Washington)

There are few landmarks so intimately tied to a city that it’s difficult to think of one without the other. Among that list are the Golden Gate Bridge, The London Eye, the Statue of Liberty, ...
Ernest Hemingway Home (Key West, Florida)
Abraham Lincoln’s Home (Springfield, Illinois)
Garces Circle (Bakersfield, California)
The Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, California)

Sandpoint Statue of Liberty (Sandpoint, Idaho)

Small Statues of Liberty are fairly common in the United States (and around the world), but Sandpoint, Idaho has given their Lady Liberty an especially scenic backdrop by standing her at the end of a ...
Two Rabbits (St. Louis, Missouri)

Sculptor Tom Claassen is known for creating subject matter that seems light and weightless while actually being nearly permanent and immovable. His untitled piece, commonly refereed to as “Two Rabbits”, at the Citygarden in St. ...
The Gateway Arch (St. Louis, Missouri)

St. Louis, Missouri, located along the western bank of the Mississippi River on the border with Illinois is home to the tallest manmade arch in the world. The Gateway Arch is a 630 foot (192m) ...
Bamahenge (Elberta, Alabama)

In a clearing of pine trees some 600 feet (183 meters) from the entrance to a marina on the Gulf Coast of Elberta, Alabama, there is a remarkably unrealistic recreation of the world famous ancient ...

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