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9 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 …

Neptune Fountain (Vienna, Austria)

Neptune’s Fountain, at the end of Schönbrunn Garden at Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria, sits at the head of a water reservoir established in 1776. The famous fountain built under the direction of Johann Wilhelm ...
Bluebird Theater (Denver, Colorado)
Presidential Back Scratching Post (Lucedale, Mississippi)
The Bloomsbury Tavern (London, England)

Twinings Tea and Coffee Merchants (London, England)

For more than 300 years the Twining has been located right between Westminster with the City of London, an area that 300 years ago was populated with a veritable who’s who of London’s aristocracy. As ...
The Space Needle (Seattle, Washington)
Laura’s Candies (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Billy Burger (Wilbur, Washington)

Crooked Forest (Gryfino, Poland)

Planted sometime around 1930, the grove of approximately 400 twisted pine trees known as the Crooked Forest is located near Gryfino, Poland. Each of the pine trees in the Crooked Forest bend just above ground ...
Rurrenabaque, Bolivia

In northern Bolivia, on the edge or the Beni River sits Rurrenabaque. Nestled in the Bolivian rainforest and secluded from La Paz, this small town is a great place to start an adventure in the ...
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 ...
Central Market Hall | Központi Vásárcsarnok (Budapest, Hungary)

The Central Market Hall (Központi Vásárcsarnok) is the largest indoor market in Budapest. Built at the end of the 19th century, the market is one of five large markets in Budapest all designed in the ...

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 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 ...
Stonehenge (Wiltshire, England)

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 ...
Saint Basil’s Cathedral (Moscow, Russia)

Located on the edge of Red Square and just a stones throw from the Moscow River, Saint Basil’s Cathedral is one of the most recognized churches in the world, second only to St Peter’s Basilica ...

R.E.M. Murmur Railroad Trestle (Athens, Georgia)

An otherwise ordinary railroad trestle in Athens, Georgia that should have been destroyed decades ago has become an important landmark and tourist attraction thanks to being featured on the back cover of the 1983 R.E.M. ...
Stari Most (Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Big Dam Bridge (Little Rock, Arkansas)
The Brooklyn Bridge
The Széchenyi Chain Bridge (Budapest, Hungary)

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 ...
Bodiam Castle (Robertsbridge, England)
Garces Circle (Bakersfield, California)
The Empire State Building (New York, New York)
The Space Needle (Seattle, Washington)

World’s Tallest Filing Cabinet (Burlington, Vermont)

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…” ...
Toy Soldiers (Toronto, Ontario)

The Monument to the War of 1812, or as it’s more commonly known, Toy Soldiers, is a large public sculpture in Toronto, Ontario. Situated in the CityPlace neighborhood adjacent to Fort York, Toy Soldiers was ...
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) ...
The “Fab Four” Beatles Statue (Liverpool, England)

For a large portion of the world Liverpool, England is known for one thing. Being the birthplace of the Beatles. And while there are plenty of things that make Liverpool a great place to visit, ...

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