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Cornish, Vermont, United States
Cornish Windsor Covered Bridge
This bridge connects New Hampshire and Vermont across the Connecticut River. Talk about a New England crossover!
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Rochester, Vermont, United States
Liberty Hill Farm
Discover this historic Vermont farm, offering year-round lodging, locally grown food, scenic hiking trails and cross-country skiing right into the heart New England.
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Province of Belluno, Italy
Tre Cime di Lavaredo: Rifugio Locatelli Outbuilding
Rifugio Locatelli has stood beneath the Tre Cime since 1882, surviving a world war, two rebuilds, and the empire it was built in.
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Burlington, Vermont, United States
Burlington Earth Clock
Step inside this 14-stone granite sundial and become the human gnomon of this prehistoric-looking timekeeper.
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South Burlington, Vermont, United States
Reverence Whale Tales
The only landlocked state in New England state has a surprising connection to the ocean, and the largest mammal that swims there.
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Liscannor, Ireland
O’Brien’s Tower
A 19th-century Irish MP built a clifftop teahouse to jumpstart tourism economics, and locals say he built everything except the cliffs.
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Pozza di Fassa, Italy
Rifugio Vajolet
Built by a Leipzig alpine club in 1897, this refuge became the launching pad for Tita Piaz's 300+ ascents of the towers above.
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Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
Irishman Creek Station Gate House
A sheep farmer who invented an excavator to build a dam to power a workshop that eventually revolutionized boating.
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Sea Ranch, California, United States
The Sea Ranch Lodge
The Sea Ranch Lodge serves as the community post office, turning mail pickup into daily communion among neighbors.
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Manali, India
Manali
In Kullu's Valley of Gods, hot air balloons float above 300 village deities who once vetoed a $350 million resort.
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Rusya, Russia
Ascension Chapel
This 1912 chapel crowns Mount Eleon on Valaam, where monks ascend both literal and spiritual heights in Russia's largest lake.
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Manapouri, New Zealand
Manapouri Cabins
Eighteen cabins overlook the lake that sparked New Zealand's environmental movement: saved by 265,000 signatures in 1970.
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Boscombe, United Kingdom
Boscombe Beach
Boscombe tried twice to rival Bournemouth: first with a Victorian mineral spring spa, then Europe's first surf reef. Both sank.
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Uluru, Northern Territory, Australia
Uluru / Ayers Rock
Uluru's climbing ban took 34 years after the 1985 handback: the rock itself is ancient seabed tilted vertically by tectonic forces.
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Hope Valley, United Kingdom
Derwent Dam
A corrugated iron hut from the dam workers' vanished 'Tin Town' survives today as a beauty salon in Hope Village.
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San Sebastián de La Gomera, Spain
San Sebastian de la Gomera
The last European soil Columbus touched wasn't in Spain—it was this volcanic island where locals now play beach football.
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Peio TN, Italy
Peio Spring
Peio's mineral water traveled the Austro-Hungarian Empire in small greenish bottles, sold in pharmacies to fashionable customers.
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Agafay, Morocco
Agafay Desert
When Morocco's stone desert bloomed for the first time in a decade, the balloons overhead matched the wildflowers below.
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Queenstown, New Zealand
Queenstown Lakefront
Lake Wakatipu's water level pulses every 27 minutes: blamed on a giant's heartbeat, explained by physics, felt by anyone patient enough to watch.
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Interior, South Dakota, United States
Badlands National Park
Mission 66 brought controversial modernism to the parks, but Badlands' brick visitor center mimics striations in the rock.
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Standish, Maine, United States
Sebago Lake
Firefighters raced back from their Fourth of July picnic to find Portland ablaze and the tide too low to fight it.
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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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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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