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springer

From my childhood days, I have wanted to know what was beyond the horizon. After Twentytwo and a half years in the US Navy and thirty-plus years traveling the globe since retiring I have managed to see Lands, which I could have only dreamed about as a child. Meeting people along the way and trying to understand their culture has been an extra benefit. To this day I still have friends I made fifty + years ago in distant countries. Travel broadens one's mind and outlook on life. One must but take the first step.

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Royal Pavilion at Stazione Centrale

An exclusive waiting room built for the royal family in the 1920s is hidden in Milan’s central station.

miramarco

Added by miramarco

Rapa Nui, Chile

Pu o Hiro (Hiro's Trumpet)

In the Middle Ages, villagers would sound this stone trumpet to boost fertility and coax fish to shore.

bsuto

Rapa Nui, Chile

Ana Kai Tangata (Cannibal Cave)

The ominously named cave is home to some remarkable ancient art.

CatAshbee

Added by CatAshbee

Washington, D.C.

Washington Monument Marble Stripe

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

Elliot Carter

Added by Elliot Carter

Tucson, Arizona

Lisa Frank Factory

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

badgersofdoom

Added by badgersofdoom

Des Moines, New Mexico

Capulin Volcano

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

Tony Dunnell

Added by Tony Dunnell

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

Truth or Consequences

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

lewblank

Added by lewblank

Roswell, New Mexico

Roswell McDonald's

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

VanessaMontalbano

Added by VanessaMontalbano

Flagstaff, Arizona

Old Two Spot Logging Train

Crafted in 1911, this steam locomotive spent its entire working life in Flagstaff.

Dr Alan P Newman

Added by Dr Alan P Newman

Green Valley, Arizona

I-19, America's Only Metric Interstate

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

steedjb

Added by steedjb

Sugar Land, Texas

Sugar Land Heritage Foundation and Museum

Its collection is a sweet reminder of the shuttered factory.

jbartlett2000

Added by jbartlett2000

'Mustangs of Las Colinas'

This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.

Fred Cherrygarden

Added by Fred Cherrygarden

World's Largest Pecan

The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

rocketship2mars

Added by rocketship2mars

Mosque of the Divinity

This unique religious structure is an architectural gem with arresting ocean views.

Added by Rachel Gould

Gustave Eiffel's Secret Apartment

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Stockholm, Sweden

Vasa Museum

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

stanestane

Added by stanestane

Helsinki, Finland

Sibelius Monument

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

dzhastin

Added by dzhastin

Tallinn, Estonia

Old Thomas

The Guardian of Tallinn.

stanestane

Added by stanestane

Tristan da Cunha

Tristan da Cunha

The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.

serflac

Added by serflac

Statue of Liberty at Pont de Grenelle

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Added by e23rutland

Sacramento, California

Eagle Theatre

A replica of the first public theater built in California.

Dr Alan P Newman

Added by Dr Alan P Newman

Sacramento, California

Spirit of Sacramento

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

Added by leuevo

Sacramento, California

Tower Bridge

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

Added by Jeremy D

Henshaw, England

Sycamore Gap

Also known as "Robin Hood's tree," this tree became a famed location along Hadrian's Wall before it was cut down in an act of vandalism.

Added by Ethan Nicholls