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Söder-Öster, Sweden
Kampagården, Bokhultet Reserve
Every hiking trail in this Swedish nature reserve was accidentally created by soldiers during 78 years of military training.
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The great outdoors. Sights, sounds, smells. Nature is a wonderful spot to get lost.
Innsbruck, Austria
Südtiroler Platz 1
A Belle Époque hotel with its own power plant was bombed flat in 1944, rebuilt in orange concrete, and became an alpine icon.
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Mar del Plata, Argentina
Mar del Plata
Mar del Plata's beachgoers rent the same umbrella spot year after year, paying millions of pesos for sand that disappears daily.
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Ericeira, Portugal
Ericeira
One of two European surfing reserve draws wave-chasers, but vintage Land Rover devotees come for Portugal's dirt roads.
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Broadway WR12 7LB, United Kingdom
Broadway Tower
From love token to 'Lighthouse of Wisdom': This folly became a printing press for a self-described 'vello-maniac' with 60,000 manuscripts.
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Ses Salines, Spain
Botanicactus
Built in Mallorca's driest region, this cactus garden survives on an artificial lake. Its excavated dirt became wind-blocking hills.
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Koksijde, Belgium
Koksijde Beach Cabins
Belgium's 250-year beach cabin tradition began with horse-drawn huts on wheels. A coachman's whip-clap signaled privacy.
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Findhorn, United Kingdom
Findhorn Beach Huts
Findhorn's controversial beach huts returned in 2015 after a 60-year absence—and a legal battle that nearly buried them again.
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Sils im Domleschg, Switzerland
St. Cassian Church
A burial church dedicated to a saint killed by his students—with a pulpit installed right after a 21-year religious war.
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San Francisco, California, United States
Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
A visitor center for a place you're forbidden to visit: the Farallon Islands, locked down since 1969 and swarming with great white sharks.
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Castelnuovo Nigra, Italy
Restaurant L’Etoile de la Vallé
Four years old and already rusting in the shadow of a Sleeping Beauty.
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Sæby, Denmark
Voerså Havn
Where Denmark's Voer River pauses before the sea, creating a harbor so quiet the birds outnumber the boats.
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Chamrousse, France
Lacs Robert
This alpine hut equips beginners to dive beneath two meters of ice. Teddy bear fleece pyjamas included in the rental.
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Whitby, United Kingdom
Whitby Beach Huts
Victorian bathing machines were beach huts on wheels, hauled into the sea by horses to preserve your modesty while you slipped into the water.
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Glencoe, United Kingdom
Wee White House Glencoe
This Highland cottage's Ballachulish slate roof beat 75% odds: most of the locally-quarried material rusted through with holes.
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Kohukohu, New Zealand
Tauteihiihi Marae
This marae has outlasted Kohukohu's timber boom, when 2,000 people lived on land literally built from kauri sawdust.
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Wanaka, New Zealand
Wānaka Lavender Farm
A freestanding purple door in a lavender field frames nothing but mountains and has become irresistibly photogenic.
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Gressoney-Saint-Jean, Italy
Pasticceria Gran Bar Follis Dario
A medieval Germanic dialect survives in an Italian valley, eight centuries after the migration over the Alps.
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Boulder City, Nevada, United States
Hoover Dam
A dam so important it needed its own city.
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Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica, Chile
Torres del Paine National Park
British ranchers shipped prefab buildings to Patagonia's edge, where puma hunters were once paid per kill until 1980.
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West Coast Region, New Zealand
Brewster Hut
At 1,460 metres in New Zealand's Southern Alps, this hut has no heating and a water tank that runs dry when you need it most.
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Leknes, Norway
Haukland Beach Cafe
A beachside café in the Arctic Circle where the first 20 minutes of parking are free- just enough time to test the 9°C water.
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Naryn, Kyrgyzstan
Song Kol Lake
Song Kol sits under snow for 200 days each year. Families arrive in June, hang laundry from vans, graze herds, then vanish by October.
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Gold Bar, Washington, United States
Espresso Chalet
Perched along Washington’s Highway 2, this spot has been serving coffee with a side of folklore for more than 30 years.
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Yermo, California, United States
Calico Ghost Town
Calico, a silver boomtown turned ghost town, survives as a blend of ruins, restorations, and legend, now preserved as a desert park.
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Cannes, France
La Plage Nespresso
In Cannes, every shot is perfected—whether it’s framed on film or pulled from the espresso machine.
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Danco Island, Antarctica
Danco Island
Unlike the massive Antarctic terrain or the enormous blue skies above, Danco Island is notably small—just 1 mile long.
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Port Foster, Deception Island
Deception Island / Whalers Bay
Shaped like a C, the island’s natural harbor, Whalers Bay, is actually the crater of a volcano that spends most of its time sleeping underwater.
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Point Wild, Elephant Island
Elephant Island / Point Wild
Four and a half months of survival against all odds: The harrowing story of Shackleton's men on Elephant Island.
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Svalbard, Svalbard
Wilderness Adventures
More inclined toward twenty-four hours of pitch darkness and temperatures that drop as low as −20°C? Visit in December or January!
Canterbury, New Zealand
Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park
The mountain has always been a focal point for global climbers and explorers.
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Nairobi, Kenya
Giraffe Manor
Guests can identify favorites, as no two giraffes in the world have the same patch pattern.
New Braunfels, Texas, United States
Camp Fimfo – Texas Hill Country
What's more fun that inside? Outside.
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Old Forge, New York, United States
Old Forge Dam – Fulton Chain of Lakes
A delightful dam building that connects a string of scenic lakes named after the inventor of the steamboat, Robert Fulton.
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