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Waipoua Forest, New Zealand

Tāne Mahuta

Largest Kauri tree in New Zealand.
Takaka, New Zealand

Te Waikoropupu Springs

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.
Lindsay, Ontario

Youngtown Rock and Roll Museum

Named in tribute to Canadian singer and songwriter Neil Young.
Page, Arizona

Antelope Canyon

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.
Bethesda, Maryland

Glen Echo Amusement Park

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.
Kupr, Sierra Leone

Bunce Island

Home of the ruins of a British slave castle.
Orick, California

Fern Canyon

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.
Naples, Italy

Gabinetto Segreto

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Vulcan, Alberta

Vulcan

Live long and prosper in Vulcan, Alberta.
Bled, Slovenia

Bled Island and Castle

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.
Rabat, Malta

Maltese Catacomb Complexes

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.
London, England

Allies Sculpture

Bronze sculpture celebrating the relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt.
London, England

Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

Abstract dinosaur models in London.
Forks, Washington

Hall of Mosses

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.
Stilton, England

Stilton Cheese Rolling Championship

Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.
Bloemendaal, Netherlands

Radio Bloemendaal

Small transmitter operated by a priest in the Netherlands.
Kerry, Ireland

Skellig Michael

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.
Kingston SE, Australia

Larry The Red Big Lobster

A massive metal lobster welcomes tourists to a roadside restaurant.
San Francisco, California

Monarch the Bear

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.
Coquitlam, British Columbia

Riverview Hospital

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.
Seabrook, South Carolina

Oyotunji African Village

North America's oldest authentic African Village.
Santiago Sacatepéquez, Guatemala

All Saints Day Kite Festival

Giant kites are flown during this Day of the Dead celebration in Guatemala.
Shawnee, Wyoming

Lost Springs

Population: 1.
Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Amir Timur (Tamerlane) Museum

Looking for a unifying history, Uzbekistan finds its answer in a 14th Century Turco-Mongol conqueror... despite the fact he wasn't Uzbek.