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9 September 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 …

Jimi Hendrix Bronze (Seattle, Washington)

A life-sized bronze statue of Jimi Hendrix commissioned by Mike Malone, the founder of AEI Music Network is proudly displayed just off the corner of Broadway and E. Pine St. in Seattle, Washington. Dedicated in ...
Texas Legation (London, England)
The Ziggurat (Sacramento, California)
Lambeau Field (Green Bay, Wisconsin)

Fraunces Tavern (Manhattan, New York)

Located in downtown Manhattan and just a few blocks from Wall Street, Fraunces Tavern was first opened in 1762. Fraunces is one of the Ten Oldest Restaurants in the United States, the oldest operating tavern ...
The Big Chicken (Marietta, Georgia)
Louis’ Lunch (New Haven, Connecticut)
Billy Burger (Wilbur, Washington)

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church (Montgomery, Alabama)

Sitting on the corner of Dexter Avenue and Decatur Street in Montgomery, Alabama since 1889, the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church has a long history in the African American community of the state. Originally known as ...
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) ...
Livingstone–Stanley Monument (Mugere, Burundi)

The Livingstone-Stanley Monument in Mugere, Burundi is the most famous site where virtually nothing happened. Dr. David Livingstone the physician and missionary, met Henry Morton Stanley the journalist and explorer but it wasn’t by chance, ...
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 ...

The Great Barrier Reef (Queensland, Australia)

The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system and single structure. Located off the coast of Queensland, Australia, the reef system is composed of more than 2,900 individual reefs and encompasses more ...
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 Tower of Pisa (Pisa, Italy)

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 ...
Pompeii (Italy)

The city of Pompeii was once a bustling city on a hill just across from the modern city of Naples. Along with Herculaneum and many small villages in the surrounding area, Pompeii was destroyed by ...

London Bridge (Lake Havasu City, Arizona)

The 1831 London Bridge was the last project of engineer John Rennie and was completed by his son, also named John Rennie (often called John Rennie the Younger). Prior to its life in sunny Arizona, the bridge spanned ...
Nine Arches Bridge (Ella, Sri Lanka)
Big Dam Bridge (Little Rock, Arkansas)
The Hartland Bridge (Hartland, New Brunswick)
Charles Bridge (Prague, Czech Republic)

Arc de Triomphe (Paris, France)

Next to the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe (Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile) is one of the most famous monuments in Paris. On the western edge of the Champs-Élysées pretty much directly in the ...
The Empire State Building (New York, New York)
The Hollywood Sign (Los Angeles, California)
The City That’s a National Historic Landmark. (Cape May, New Jersey)
Washington Monument (Washington, D.C.)

The Women’s Table (New Haven, Connecticut)

The Women’s Table at Yale was designed by Maya Lin, the famous alumni best known for designing the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington in 1982, and is the most visible sign of the commemoration of ...
The Tsar Bell (Moscow, Russia)

If giant bells are your thing, the Tsar Bell is an absolute must see. The Tsar Bell, also known as the Tsarsky Kolokol, the Tsar Kolokol III, and the Royal Bell, is a 6.14 meter tall ...
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 ...
Garces Circle (Bakersfield, California)

Anybody that has spent time in a small town knows that directions are often given by landmarks rather than streets. Bakersfield, California, despite having a population greater than Iceland is not unlike many other small ...

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