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Pottstown, Pennsylvania, United States
The Very Best Weiner Shop
Before The Very Best was serving hot dogs, it was saving soles.
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Singapore, Singapore
Capitol Theatre
On clear nights, the ceiling retracted and films played under the stars.
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Walworth, Wisconsin, United States
Pearce’s Farm Stand Corn Maze
The roadside stand funded by five kids selling surplus corn in 1967 now spans 2,000 acres, a commercial kitchen, and an award-winning 13-acre maze.
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Wittenberg, Wisconsin, United States
Fireworks Country Store
Where Reverend Homme's 1879 orphanage town now peddles pyrotechnic glory from a big blue barn.
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Bexhill, United Kingdom
De La Warr Pavilion
Britain's first modernist public building was so controversial that its aristocratic socialist champion refused the town's highest honor.
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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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George, Washington, United States
The Martha Inn and Cafe
A pharmacist named Charlie Brown won a land auction, built a town, and named it George, Washington.
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Ilhéus, Brazil
Ilhéus
Ilhéus banned its most famous writer for telling the truth about cocoa barons who funded extra-long church sermons.
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Osaka, Japan
Tsūtenkaku Tower
Asia's second-tallest structure in 1912, Tsūtenkaku connected to Luna Park via Japan's first aerial tramway before both vanished.
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Kimba, South Australia, Australia
Kimba Agricultural, Horticultural & Floricultural Society
Celebrating 100 years of agricultural shows with only 97 on the books...
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San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Hotel Posada de La Aldea
This hotel's 18th-century walls and 400-year-old fountain predate San Miguel de Allende's famous pink cathedral by decades.
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Valletta, Malta
Valletta Post Office
Malta's British post boxes still bear royal ciphers from Victoria to George VI, and unlike their UK cousins, many still collect mail.
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Ho Rattanachai, Thailand
Ayutthaya Railway Station
Every passenger train in Thailand must stop at Ayutthaya—a mandatory pause at the birthplace of Thai railways since 1897.
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London, United Kingdom
Elaine’s London
London's Elaine's channels the spirit of NYC's legendary writers' hangout, closed since 2011 after 48 years of celebrity chaos.
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Montauk, New York, United States
White’s Liquors
This neon sign marks where Montauk kids once slurped ice cream sodas, before the White family traded prescriptions for pours.
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Lisbon, Portugal
Santa Apolónia Train Station
Once called both 'Wharf of America' and 'Wharf of Europe,' this 1865 station transferred European rail passengers to Atlantic ships.
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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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Granard, Ireland
Granard Farmers Mart
This farmer-owned mart has weathered every crisis since 1970, selling over 25,000 cattle yearly on the same Monday-Wednesday schedule.
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Harrogate, United Kingdom
Harrogate Tap
The only part of an 1862 station that survived demolition now causes passengers to miss their trains on purpose.
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Manchester, United Kingdom
The Peveril of the Peak
The landlady ran this pub for fifty years, retiring at 93 after keeping Manchester's last detached pub alive.
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Lakeside, Colorado, United States
Lakeside Amusement Park
To sell beer at his amusement park, a Denver brewer incorporated his own town: population 16, with its own police force.
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Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
The Cab Phone @ Aloha Tower
This lei-wrapped phone near Aloha Tower connects directly to a cab dispatcher—no coins, no dialing, just pick up and go.
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Ogland, Kazakhstan
Beket Ata Underground Mosque
This 18th-century underground mosque carved into desert rock may have doubled as an astronomical observatory.
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London, United Kingdom
Lacy Gallery / Pippa Small
A frame dealer's son and an anthropologist-turned-jeweler hold down neighboring pink and yellow shopfronts on Westbourne Grove.
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Monterey, California, United States
Monterey Canning Co
At its peak, Cannery Row processed 250,000 tons of sardines a year. Then the fish vanished - and only one marine biologist knew why.
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Wengen, Switzerland
Hotel Bellevue des Alpes
A family-run hotel since 1840, accessible only by train, with a front-row view of the "murder wall" that's claimed 64 lives.
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Broc, Switzerland
Maison Cailler
This 1898 chocolate factory powered an entire Swiss village: its hydroelectric plant brought electricity to Broc in 1899. What a uniquely sweet history!
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New York, New York, United States
New Yorker Hotel
NBC broadcast live big band performances from here nightly during the Depression.
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New York, New York, United States
Domino Sugar Refinery
At its peak, this factory refined 98% of all sugar consumed in the United States.
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Ioannina, Greece
Stoa Liampei
A covered arcade rebuilt in stone and iron after fire leveled half the city's shops in the 1800s now hosts modern day shops.
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Cabo Pulmo, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Cabo Pulmo EcoAdventures
This fishing village gave up fishing in 1995. Now it has the largest fish biomass recovery ever recorded in a marine reserve.
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Superior, Arizona, United States
Superior Climbing Shack
A former copper mining town reinvents itself one climbing route at a time, with 1,000 sport climbs replacing underground shafts.
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Alnwick, United Kingdom
Alnwick Gardens
Behind skull-marked gates, gardeners in hazmat suits tend belladonna and hemlock. Oh, and 20 to 30 visitors faint from the fumes every year.
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Freeport, Maine, United States
Desert of Maine
A dinner-plate-sized patch of sand grew to swallow forty acres, buildings, and all.
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Geneva, Switzerland
Bijouterie CD I Love You
A jewelry store in Geneva’s neighborhood where love is the local specialty.
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