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16 August 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 …

The Dish (Parkes, Australia)

Twenty kilometers north of Parkes, New South Wales, Australia is a simple radio telescope observatory known officially as the Parkes Observatory. Unofficially, it’s known as The Dish. The Parkes Observatory is operated by the Commonwealth ...
Abbey Road Zebra Crossing (London, England)
The Gros-Horloge (Rouen, France)
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church (Montgomery, Alabama)

Tadich Grill (San Francisco, California)

In 1849, during the height of the California Gold Rush, a Croatian immigrant opened the New World Coffee Saloon on Commercial Street. Like the Original Starbucks in Seattle, the coffee saloon it soon eclipsed its ...
The Temple Bar (Dublin, Ireland)
Antoine’s (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Louis’ Lunch (New Haven, Connecticut)

Brighton Bathing Boxes (Melbourne, Australia)

The Brighton Bathing Boxes are multi-colored timber huts that line the beach of one of Melbourne’s most exclusive neighborhoods. Brighton was for many years in the late nineteenth century the favorite seaside destination for of ...
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, ...
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 Temple of Heaven (Beijing, China)

Located in southern Beijing, The Temple of Heaven was first constructed in 1420 in the 18th year of the reign of Ming emperor Yongle. The Temple of Heaven was extended and renovated during the reigns ...

Brihadeeswarar (Thanjavur, India)

Most commonly refereed to as simply The Big Temple, Brihadeeswarar Temple in Thanjavur, India, is a Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Shiva. Brihadeeswarar Temple (sometimes spelled Brihadishvara Temple, also called Rajarajesvaram or Peruvudaiyar Kovil) was built by Raja ...
The Statue of Liberty (New York, New York)

The Statue of Liberty (French: La Liberté éclairant le monde), was a gift to the United States from the people of France and was dedicated on 28, October, 1886. The statue itself is technically called ...
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 ...
Chichen Itza (Yucatán, Mexico)

Located in the eastern portion of Yucatán state in Mexico, the ruins of Chichen Itza stand as the single greatest example of Mayan architecture. This sacred site was one of the greatest Mayan centers of the Yucatán ...

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 ...
Glenfinnan Viaduct (Glenfinnan, Scotland)
The Hartland Bridge (Hartland, New Brunswick)
Charles Bridge (Prague, Czech Republic)
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 ...
The City That’s a National Historic Landmark. (Cape May, New Jersey)
Washington Monument (Washington, D.C.)
Anson Opera House (Anson, Texas)
Maryland State House at Annapolis

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 ...
The Hollywood Sign (Los Angeles, California)

The Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles, California has over the course of its life most definitely become more than just a sign. The famous landmark in the Hollywood Hills has become a symbol of everything ...
Spoonbridge and Cherry (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Built by the married artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Spoonbridge and Cherry is the centerpiece and most well-known instillation at the Walker Art Center’s Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. Delighting locals and visitors alike since ...
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 ...

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