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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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Austin Pietrobono
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Cape Town, South Africa
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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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Osaka, Japan
Shinsekai Market
A dying Osaka market saved itself with self-deprecating posters that went viral and turned it into a cult-favorite spot.
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Osaka, Japan
Tamade Supermarket
Named after a pachinko winning term, Tamade's neon-blasted storefronts sell ¥100 meals in what locals call Osaka's cheapest supermarket.
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Doha, Qatar
National Museum of Qatar
A 20th-century palace hides inside 539 interlocking disks designed to look like crystallized sand: the journey ends where history begins.
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Brighton, United Kingdom
i360 Ticket Booth
Victorian toll booths once charged tuppence to walk Brighton's West Pier; now they sell tickets to its 'vertical' replacement.
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Buxoro, Uzbekistan
Mir-i-Arab Madrasa
Built with blood money in 1535, this madrasa became one of only two Islamic schools the Soviets allowed to stay open.
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Тоshkent, Uzbekistan
State Museum of the Temurids
This museum honors a 14th-century conqueror with a chandelier of 106,000 crystals but omits his pyramids of human skulls.
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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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Stow-on-the-Wold, United Kingdom
Stow-on-the-Wold
Stow-on-the-Wold's 18th-century rhyme warns: 'where the wind blows cold' - earned by being the Cotswolds' highest town at 800 feet.
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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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Harbin, China
The Ice and Snow World Post Office
At Harbin's ice festival, a working post office carved from frozen river blocks actually mails your postcards - stamp included.
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Cape Town, South Africa
Muizenberg Beach Huts
Muizenberg's bathing boxes started as Victorian modesty machines on wheels, then lost their wheels when mixed bathing became legal in 1901.
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Paternoster, South Africa
Paternoster Biblioteek
Among Paternoster's white-washed cottages, the library's yellow shutters are the village's brightest rebellion.
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Buxoro Viloyati, Uzbekistan
Chor Minor
Chor Minor means 'four minarets,' but the towers were never minarets. Three stored supplies; one had stairs.
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Jewett, New York, USA
Windham Mountain Outfitters
A family-owned ski shop with a fire-engine red roof, a rescue dog named Wiggles, and coffee next door: ski country essentials.
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Miami Beach, Florida, United States
Cavalier South Beach Hotel
Roy F. France moved to Miami Beach in 1931 and designed the Cavalier with a mantra: let in the air and sun.
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Robert Sobukwe, South Africa
Frontiers Karoo Restaurant
South Africa's most monument-dense town was once so rebellious its burghers declared independence from colonial rule: twice.
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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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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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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Rio Grande Depot
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad spent $750,000 in 1910 to outshine a competitor, then sold the depot for a dollar in 1977.
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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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