4 September 2026

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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

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

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Sites Around the World

  • The Tower of Pisa (Torre di Pisa) affectionately known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa is a freestanding bell tower of the cathedral in the city of Pisa in Italy.  Situated behind the cathedral in ...
  • Lombard Street
    It’s rare that a truly great roadside attraction is actually a road, but there are a few examples around the world and one of them is definitely Lombard Street in San Francisco, California.  Lombard Street is ...
  • The Brooklyn Bridge
    Without The Brooklyn Bridge the city of New York could look very different today in several ways.  The combination cable-stayed/suspension bridge was built in 1883 making it one of the oldest continually used and most ...
  • Influenced by The Hell Gate Bridge in New York City, the Sydney Harbour Bridge was designed and built by the British architecture firm Dorman Long and Co. Ltd.  The Sydney Harbour Bridge was opened to ...

UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES

  • Colosseum of Rome
    The New Seven Wonders of the World, or rather the New7Wonders was a campaign and popularity poll to select seven existing sites from a selection of 200 around the world that were historically and socially ...
  • Taj Mahal
    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 ...
  • Stonehenge, officially known as ‘Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites’, located in Wiltshire, England is a prehistoric monument that consists of a ring of standing stones.  Archaeologists believe that Stonehenge was constructed between 3000-2000 BC but ...
  • Uluru
    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 ...

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Amazing Sculptures

  • Transcendence Sculpture in Portland, Oregon
    Portland, Oregon is somewhat known for being a refuge of sorts for people looking to leave an artistic impact on the world, making the sculpture Transcendence fit right in. Fittingly located in the brickwork at ...
  • Gavel Statue
    The largest judicial gavel in the world is in the form of a stainless steel sculpture located in a reflecting pool just outside the Ohio Supreme Court in beautiful downtown Columbus, Ohio.  Officially known as ...
  • Inspired by liquid mercury, Cloud Gate often called “The Bean” is a public sculpture designed by British artist Anish Kapoor.   The crowning jewel of Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois, Cloud Gate looks as if it ...
  • World's Tallest Filing Cabinet
    Built in 2002 by local artist Bren Alvarez, the world’s tallest filing cabinet is more than a stack of 38 drawers. The tower is a piece of art titled “File Under File Under So. Co., Waiting for…” ...