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Despite the name, never used as a burial place. Interstate 180 (Wyoming) An Interstate Highway that isn't really a freeway at all. Interstate 19: The only U.S. highway marked in SI units, a relic of a historical push for metrication. Island of California: The third-largest U.S. state was formerly an island – at least on paper. Jackass Flats
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Shangri-La – fictional place from James Hilton's 1933 novel Lost Horizon; Loo – capital of the lost African kingdom of Kukuanaland in Sir H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines; Kôr – created by Sir H. Rider Haggard for his Ayesha series of adventure novels; Zu-Vendis – appearing in Sir H. Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain
A place in North Dakota that's really feeling like being a dick today. Also in Georgia plus a Dickey River and a Dickey Glacier in Antarctica. Die: A rather morbid name for a commune I'd say, but not if spoken like the French would - then, it sounds like the German feminine form of "the". Diepenbeek: A municipality in Belgium. Means "deep ditch ...
Trip.com published a piece highlighting the world’s most important holy places, and there are a few that didn’t even make it onto Jeremy’s list. #4 Image credits: JeremyTate41
The dwelling place of the Shinto kami. Thule: An island somewhere in the belt of Scandinavia, northern Great Britain, Iceland, and Greenland. Vineta: A mythical city at the southern coast of the Baltic Sea. Vyraj: A mythical place in Slavic mythology, where "birds fly for the winter and souls go after death". Westernesse
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