Year: 2018

Inokashira Park Benzaiten Shrine

Discover Inokashira Park Benzaiten Shrine in Tokyo, Japan: Legend says the goddess this shrine honors curses any couples that pass by.

Peden’s Cave

Discover Peden's Cave in Failford, Scotland: A historic cave in Scotland once served as a hiding place for a famous Covenanter.

Coyote’s Flying Saucer Repair

Discover Coyote's Flying Saucer Retrievals and Repairs in Ocotillo, California: A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.

Botica Salcobrand

Discover Botica Salcobrand in Valparaiso, Chile: Buying your medicine at this particular pharmacy is like taking a trip back in time.

Tippu Tip’s House

Discover Tippu Tip's House in Zanzibar, Tanzania: This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.

Column of Death

Discover Column of Death in San Pablo Villa de Mitla, Mexico: A mysterious pillar in an ancient burial chamber is said to predict how long you have to live.

Pecan Legacy Park

Discover Pecan Legacy Park in Chesterfield, Missouri: After miraculously surviving a giant flood, the 19th-century nut tree and its offspring are protected with their own tiny park.

Dunedin Museum of Natural Mystery

Discover Dunedin Museum of Natural Mystery in Dunedin, New Zealand: Three rooms of bones, curios, and one artist's collection of natural artifacts create this intriguing museum.

Pinang Peranakan Mansion

Discover Pinang Peranakan Mansion in George Town, Malaysia: The lavish, well-preserved home of a wealthy Baba Nyonya family is now a cultural museum.

Paddy the Wanderer Fountain

Discover Paddy the Wanderer Fountain in Wellington, New Zealand: A memorial to Wellington's well-loved, well-traveled wharf dog.

National Poo Museum

Discover National Poo Museum in Sandown, England: This British museum hopes to take the taboo out of poo.

Bridge of No Return

Discover Bridge of No Return in Paju, South Korea: The site of many tense prisoner exchanges across the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

Telegraph Building Belfast Blitz Scars

Discover Telegraph Building Belfast Blitz Scars in Belfast, Northern Ireland: A small plaque highlights the damage caused by German air raids during World War II.

La Rotonda

Discover La Rotonda in Rovigo, Italy: A rare example of an octagonal Catholic church.

Stamford’s Miniature Ghost Town

Discover Stamford's Miniature Ghost Town in Stamford, Connecticut: Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.

Homewood Cemetery

Discover Homewood Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

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To be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals. 137 v
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To contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation. 168

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