England’s smallest parish church, a pine that sprouted sixty years before Plymouth Rock, eleven kilometres of empty sand. Each comes down to one claim you can stand in front of.
A Puebla courtyard dig turned up a burial 1,500 years older than the city
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A row of chained guard dogs that once sealed off a Tasmanian convict peninsula
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A painted crimson silk cavalry flag from the early 1700s, on view in a Massachusetts library
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The last verified soldier of the American Revolution, buried in rural Ohio
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A 500-meter fortress wall in Vietnam that nobody built
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Walk from Honshu to Kyushu under the sea
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A free barn museum at the Wilkin & Sons jam factory in Essex
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A small Inyo County museum reported to keep a set of homemade coyote-tooth dentures
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1904 opera house where the US–Canada border runs through the seats
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The Georgian mountain shrine whose doors never survive
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Japan's oldest surviving toilet, still standing after 500 years
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A dry desert ridge that was once ice-age lake shoreline
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Europe's most powerful lighthouse, on the island of Ouessant
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A folk museum pavilion holding a thousand hooded horse-god effigies
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The only spot on the Grand Canyon's 278 river miles a car can reach
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Madrid in 1830, built at 1:816 scale from wood, silk, and sand
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Katherine Johnson in bronze, on the campus she reached at ten
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England's smallest parish church, seating 39 under beams said to be Viking
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A 110-foot pine that germinated sixty years before Plymouth Rock
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Eleven kilometres of empty sand, and the resort that never opened
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