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      "short_blurb": "You're in Campo de' Fiori — Field of Flowers. In the mornings it's a market, all produce and cut flowers and fish on ice, and in the evenings it fills up with people drinking. It's one of the most pleasant squares in Rome.",
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      "short_blurb": "That massive round fortress by the river is Castel Sant'Angelo, and it has had more careers than anyone you know. It started as a tomb — the emperor Hadrian built it as a giant mausoleum for himself around nineteen hundred years ago.",
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      "short_blurb": "La Seu. The cathedral. Get close to the stone, because it's the colour of sand and full of shell fragments — it was quarried out of this island's own seabed, and in low sun the whole building goes gold.",
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      "short_blurb": "You're looking at the Dragon Gate — the entrance to the oldest Chinatown in North America.",
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      "short_blurb": "Waverly Place.",
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      "short_blurb": "You're looking at a long grassy field where people walk their dogs. This was the Circus Maximus, the chariot-racing track that held around a quarter of a million Romans — and the emperors were its most embarrassing superfans.",
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      "short_blurb": "That tall pink granite spike by the river, with a bronze sphinx crouched on either side, is Cleopatra's Needle. And almost everything about that name is a lie. It has nothing to do with Cleopatra.",
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      "short_blurb": "You already know it's a bean. Everybody knows it's a bean. Its name is Cloud Gate, the sculptor is Anish Kapoor, and he has spent roughly twenty years being quietly furious that the city looked at his masterwork and named it after a…",
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      "short_blurb": "Look up.",
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      "short_blurb": "You're looking at the most photographed fence in New Orleans — cast-iron cornstalks with morning glories climbing through them, catching the afternoon",
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      "short_blurb": "Take in the park for a second. Old men bent over chessboards, a ring of onlookers giving unsolicited advice on every move. The clack of mahjong tiles. Somebody playing a two-stringed fiddle.",
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      "short_blurb": "That turquoise-and-white Victorian with the striped awnings — that's Commander's Palace.",
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        "country": "United States"
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      "short_blurb": "Where jazz was born — the only legal drum circle in all of slave-era America.",
      "description": "The birthplace of jazz. The only place in slave-era America where African drumming was legally permitted — an accidental loophole that changed music forever.",
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      "short_blurb": "A tomb in a public park. And it's not empty.",
      "description": "The only visible grave remaining from Lincoln Park's days as Chicago City Cemetery. About 12,000 bodies were never moved.",
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        "country": "United States"
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      "short_blurb": "Crissy Field.",
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        "name": "Chicago",
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      "short_blurb": "Two towers of glass block, fifty feet tall, facing each other across a long black granite floor with a quarter inch of water lying on it. And on the inward face of each tower, a person. Enormous. Blinking. Looking at you.",
      "description": "Two towers of glass block, fifty feet tall, facing each other across a long black granite floor with a quarter inch of water lying on it. And on the inward face of each tower, a person. Enormous. Blinking. Looking at you. This is Crown Fountain, made by a Catalan sculptor named Zhow-meh Plen-sa, and the faces on it are a thousand actual residents of this city. Not donors. Not aldermen.",
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        "country": "United States"
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      "short_blurb": "Slow down. The road is about to double back on itself in one of the sharpest curves on the whole route, a real white-knuckle hairpin, and there's a name for this spot that the highway crews and the locals have used for well over a century.",
      "description": "Slow down. The road is about to double back on itself in one of the sharpest curves on the whole route, a real white-knuckle hairpin, and there's a name for this spot that the highway crews and the locals have used for well over a century. Devil's Elbow. There's a marker near here. And there's a reason it's not called Pleasant Bend.",
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        "name": "Northern Michigan",
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      "short_blurb": "You're on the west shore now, and there are two things to look at. Close up, right off the road, there's a small dark cave scooped into the rock — that's Devil's Kitchen.",
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      "short_blurb": "You've just crossed Esplanade Avenue into the Faubourg Marigny.",
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      "short_blurb": "See that bar on the corner — the one with the big plate-glass windows? That's Twin Peaks Tavern.",
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      "short_blurb": "You've reached the water at Hoffman Park, and now I want you to look across the channel at that building with the swooping roof — the one that curves up at the end like a bird's wing lifting.",
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      "short_blurb": "Look up. Holy Name Cathedral — the seat of the whole Chicago archdiocese, and one of the most beautiful buildings in the city.",
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      "short_blurb": "See that brick building? Four fifty-one Jackson Street.",
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        "country": "France"
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        "name": "New Orleans",
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      "short_blurb": "A revolving bar where American literature drank — and where Capote lied about being born.",
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      "short_blurb": "That clock tower is the Elizabeth Tower, and the bell hanging inside it is Big Ben — not the tower, not the clock, the BELL. Thirteen and a half tonnes of metal. And the first thing nobody tells you about it: it's broken.",
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      "short_blurb": "Look up.",
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      "short_blurb": "The Voodoo Queen's tomb — where the X marks are completely made up.",
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      "short_blurb": "Six-oh-four H Street Northwest. If you're looking at a Chinese restaurant right now — that's the place. This three-story townhouse was the headquarters of the Lincoln assassination conspiracy.",
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      "short_blurb": "This stop is the quiet one. Pull off at Middle Village, and I want you to slow everything down, because you've arrived at the heart of this whole coast. The Odawa have a name for this shoreline — Waganakising.",
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      "short_blurb": "This is Mott Street, the oldest spine of the oldest Chinatown in the country. If the neighborhood has a Main Street, you're on it. Look up at the rooflines — the little upturned corners, the painted balconies, the pagoda flourishes.",
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      "short_blurb": "That red windmill. Eighty-two Boulevard de Clichy. It opened on October fifth, eighteen eighty-nine — the same year as the Eiffel Tower. Paris was in shock-the-world mode, and this was its contribution to nightlife. Two men built it.",
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      "short_blurb": "Behind that gate is the Carnavalet — two Renaissance mansions stitched together, holding the museum of the history of Paris. The city keeps its own attic here.",
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      "short_blurb": "The great carriage door at seventy-one Rue du Temple hides one of the finest mansions in the Marais. The mansion, in turn, is hiding something of its own.",
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      "short_blurb": "This building — twelve Rue Cortot — has been here since the sixteen hundreds. It's one of the oldest houses on the hill, and the list of people who lived and worked inside it is ridiculous.",
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      "short_blurb": "The tall slate roofs and carved gate ahead belong to the Hotel Sale. The name means the Salted Mansion, and it was an insult. In the sixteen fifties, a contractor named Pierre Aubert won the job of collecting the salt tax.",
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      "short_blurb": "Behind the cathedral, on the east side, is a museum most visitors march straight past on their way to the dome climb. Don't.",
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      "short_blurb": "Where a mayor planned to stash an emperor rescued by a pirate with a yacht.",
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      "short_blurb": "The Old Ship Saloon.",
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        "name": "Florence",
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      "short_blurb": "The building on the corner is trying very hard to look like it has nothing to hide. Heavy blocks of rough stone at street level, smoother and calmer as your eye climbs, a thick cornice across the top like a raised eyebrow.",
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        "name": "Rome",
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      "short_blurb": "You cannot miss the enormous white marble monument in front of you. Blinding, tiered, covered in columns and bronze horses, roughly the size of a small mountain.",
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      "short_blurb": "You've crossed the river, and the thing filling the square in front of you looks less like a building than a cliff face with windows. The Pitti Palace. Enormous, rusticated, deliberately overwhelming.",
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      "short_blurb": "Plaça de Cort. Town hall square. And the thing in the middle of it, with the trunk that looks like it's been melted and then thought better of it, is an olive tree about six hundred years old.",
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        "name": "Mallorca",
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      "short_blurb": "Find the face. It's high up on the building with the broken tiles all over it — a big hairy grotesque head with a winged dragon on either side of it, staring down into this square like it has opinions about everyone in it.",
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      "short_blurb": "This is the Place de la Concorde — eight and a half hectares of open space, the largest public square in Paris. The fountains, the obelisk, the symmetry. It looks like a postcard. This square has a dark chapter.",
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        "country": "France"
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      "short_blurb": "This is the Place des Vosges — thirty-six red brick houses, four stories each, arranged in a perfect square around the park. Every facade is identical, because the king ordered it that way.",
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        "slug": "paris",
        "name": "Paris",
        "country": "France"
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      "short_blurb": "So. Place du Tertre. The most famous artists' square in the world. And yes — it's a little crowded, a little touristy, someone is definitely going to try to draw your portrait in the next ninety seconds.",
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      "name": "Place Vendôme",
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        "slug": "paris",
        "name": "Paris",
        "country": "France"
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      "short_blurb": "Place Vendôme. An octagon of gray-gold palaces, the Ritz on one side, jewelers everywhere else. In the middle, a giant bronze column with a little Napoleon on top, dressed as a Roman emperor.",
      "description": "Place Vendôme. An octagon of gray-gold palaces, the Ritz on one side, jewelers everywhere else. In the middle, a giant bronze column with a little Napoleon on top, dressed as a Roman emperor. The square is so quiet and so expensive it feels like the money itself is asking you to lower your voice. Start with the column, because the column has died and come back more times than most religions.",
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        "slug": "paris",
        "name": "Paris",
        "country": "France"
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      "short_blurb": "You're on the Pont Neuf — the New Bridge, which is the oldest bridge in Paris. Four hundred years old and still called new. Paris has decided this is fine, and honestly, so have I.",
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        "slug": "paris",
        "name": "Paris",
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      "short_blurb": "The flat gray footbridge between the two islands is the Pont Saint-Louis. Take a good look at it, because it is — and I say this with affection — the plainest bridge in Paris. No statues, no lamps worth photographing, no gold.",
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        "latitude": 48.8521,
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        "name": "Rome",
        "country": "Italy"
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      "short_blurb": "You're on the bridge leading away from the castle — Ponte Sant'Angelo, lined on both sides by ten marble angels, each one carrying an instrument of Christ's suffering. A crown of thorns, a cross, a whip, the nails.",
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      "short_blurb": "The bridge in front of you is wearing shops — the Ponte Vecchio, gold and silver glinting in every little window box that leans out over the water.",
      "description": "The bridge in front of you is wearing shops — the Ponte Vecchio, gold and silver glinting in every little window box that leans out over the water. It's the oldest bridge in Florence and the only one anyone ever built a shopping street across.",
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        "slug": "san-francisco",
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      "short_blurb": "Portsmouth Square.",
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        "latitude": 37.7949,
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        "slug": "new-orleans",
        "name": "New Orleans",
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      "short_blurb": "A Wharton grad on his honeymoon followed some musicians and accidentally saved jazz.",
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        "slug": "san-francisco",
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      "short_blurb": "The Presidio.",
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      "slug": "radio-city-music-hall",
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      "short_blurb": "Radio City Music Hall seats nearly six thousand people. On its opening night, most of them wanted to leave.",
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        "latitude": 40.76,
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      "short_blurb": "The slim white tower on this corner is almost entirely window. Count the wall. There's barely any.",
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      "short_blurb": "Where two cultures disliked each other so much the grass needed a diplomatic designation.",
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      "slug": "rue-de-rivoli-tuileries-garden",
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      "short_blurb": "You've reached the Rue de Rivoli — the long straight street with the endless stone arcades. Arch after arch after identical arch, running toward the Louvre one way and the Place de la Concorde the other.",
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      "short_blurb": "The narrow street ahead is the Rue des Rosiers, the street of the rosebushes. What it usually smells like is frying chickpeas, cumin, and warm bread. This is the Pletzl.",
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      "short_blurb": "Your eyes will slide right past this one, so slow down. That gap between the buildings — the slot barely wide enough for a doorway — is the rue du Chat-qui-Pêche. Shah-kee-Pesh. The Street of the Fishing Cat.",
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      "short_blurb": "Sa Llotja — you say it Yot-ja. Battlements along the top, an octagonal tower at each corner, enormous windows full of stone tracery, and a row of gargoyles leaning out over your head with their mouths open. Everybody assumes it's a church.",
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      "short_blurb": "That white church on the hilltop. Eleven million visitors a year, and Parisians STILL argue about whether it should be here. Here's why. In eighteen seventy, France lost a war to Prussia — badly.",
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        "slug": "new-orleans",
        "name": "New Orleans",
        "country": "United States"
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      "short_blurb": "Three churches on one spot — the first two burned down because nobody rang the bells.",
      "description": "Three churches have stood on this spot since seventeen eighteen. The first two burned down. One of the oldest cathedrals in continuous use in the United States.",
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      "short_blurb": "See that Gothic spire rising out of the middle of the law courts? That's Sainte-Chapelle — a thirteenth-century jewel box parked inside a working courthouse.",
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      "short_blurb": "Look at the front of this church. It's bare. Rough brown brick, blank and unfinished, like the builders knocked off for lunch five centuries ago and never came back.",
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      "short_blurb": "You've reached Santa Croce — the enormous church with the marble front, facing the wide square. Inside, it holds the most extraordinary collection of the dead in Italy. They call it the Pantheon of Florence.",
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      "short_blurb": "Behind the great church of Santa Croce, through a passage most tourists never take, there's a long, light-filled room inside the old monastery where people are, right now, bent over benches, cutting and stitching and pressing gold leaf…",
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      "short_blurb": "Look around.",
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      "name": "Shakespeare and Company",
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        "slug": "paris",
        "name": "Paris",
        "country": "France"
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      "short_blurb": "That green storefront with the book bins out front is Shakespeare and Company, and across the water behind it stands Notre-Dame. A bookstore and a cathedral, staring at each other over the Seine.",
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      "short_blurb": "That's the Stonewall Inn.",
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      "short_blurb": "Get close to the rounded corner where State Street meets Madison, and look at the metal around the doorway. It runs from the entrance up through two full floors, and it's the finest metalwork in Chicago.",
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      "short_blurb": "Summit Rock.",
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      "short_blurb": "This enormous brick building with the single tall chimney is Tate Modern, and until the year two thousand it was doing a completely different job.",
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      "short_blurb": "The Biograph, and its restored marquee, look frozen in the summer of nineteen thirty-four. That's deliberate, and there's a reason.",
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      "short_blurb": "You're standing on Bridge Street, at the drawbridge over the channel — the narrow strip of water connecting the big lake, Lake Michigan, to the round harbor full of sailboats behind you.",
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      "short_blurb": "Look at the building on the northwest corner of the park.",
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        "country": "United States"
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      "short_blurb": "Where a shoemaker from Treme challenged segregation sixty-three years before Rosa Parks.",
      "description": "Where America doubled in size over paperwork. The Louisiana Purchase was signed in the Sala Capitular on the second floor — fifteen million dollars, eight hundred thousand square miles, about three cents an acre.",
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        "name": "New Orleans",
        "country": "United States"
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      "short_blurb": "See that building taking up half the block on Royal Street? That's the Hotel Monteleone.",
      "description": "See that building taking up half the block on Royal Street? That's the Hotel Monteleone. It's the only high-rise in the interior French Quarter, and the man who built it repaired shoes for a living.",
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      "name": "The Castro Theatre",
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        "name": "San Francisco",
        "country": "United States"
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      "short_blurb": "Look at that facade.",
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      "short_blurb": "The Chrysler Building.",
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      "short_blurb": "That narrow building is the Clink Prison Museum. It stands on the site of one of the oldest and most notorious prisons in England — old enough that \"the Clink\" became the generic English word for any jail at all.",
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      "short_blurb": "The Colosseum. And yes — the emperor from the movie Gladiator was a real man. His name was Commodus, and he genuinely did come down into this arena and fight, dressed as Hercules, in front of the whole city.",
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      "short_blurb": "Those pale round towers with the witch-hat roofs, running along the river — that's the Conciergerie. And on the square corner tower, look for the gold. That's a clock.",
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      "short_blurb": "Chelsea Market.",
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      "short_blurb": "You are standing underneath a ship. A real one — thirty-odd metres of Victorian sailing clipper, hoisted three metres into the air so you can walk right beneath the hull that used to slice through the open ocean.",
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        "country": "United States"
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      "short_blurb": "You're looking at a small, round, marble temple with twelve columns and a dome. It's forty-seven feet tall. It looks like a bandstand. That's because it IS a bandstand.",
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        "country": "Italy"
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      "category": "landmark",
      "short_blurb": "Look up at the dome. That's Michelangelo. And he shouldn't have been able to build it. By the time the Pope handed him the job, Michelangelo was seventy-one years old.",
      "description": "Look up at the dome. That's Michelangelo. And he shouldn't have been able to build it. By the time the Pope handed him the job, Michelangelo was seventy-one years old. He was the most famous artist alive, exhausted, and he did not need the work. He took it anyway — and he refused to be paid for it. He said he'd do it for the love of God and Saint Peter, and he meant it.",
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        "slug": "rome",
        "name": "Rome",
        "country": "Italy"
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      "short_blurb": "You're on the Oppian Hill, in a quiet park with pine trees and joggers. Underneath your feet, buried in the hillside, is what's left of the single most extravagant private home ever built by a Roman — the Domus Aurea, the Golden House of…",
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        "name": "Florence",
        "country": "Italy"
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      "category": "landmark",
      "short_blurb": "Now you're right underneath it. The Duomo — Santa Maria del Fiore — wrapped in green, white, and pink marble, with a bell tower beside it in the same candy stripes. Look past the fancy front, up to the top. That dome.",
      "description": "You're under the Duomo — Santa Maria del Fiore, the great striped cathedral with the brick-red dome. Fix your eyes on the wide floor beneath that dome, the open space under the lantern where the altar sits. On a Sunday morning in the spring of fourteen seventy-eight, that floor became the most famous crime scene in Florence. The two most powerful men in the city were the Medici brothers.",
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        "slug": "new-york",
        "name": "New York City",
        "country": "USA"
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      "short_blurb": "The theater behind that marquee has been four completely different buildings without ever moving an inch.",
      "description": "The theater behind that marquee has been four completely different buildings without ever moving an inch. It went up in nineteen twenty-seven as a legitimate Broadway house, built by Arthur Hammerstein to honor his father Oscar — a cigar manufacturer who got rich on tobacco and then spent all of it on opera houses. A career path I find deeply reassuring.",
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      "is_featured": false,
      "url": "https://badhistorian.com/stories/new-york/the-ed-sullivan-theater/"
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        "name": "Paris",
        "country": "France"
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      "short_blurb": "So. The Eiffel Tower. Three hundred and thirty meters tall, seven thousand three hundred tonnes of iron, two and a half million rivets. You've seen it a million times.",
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        "name": "Washington DC",
        "country": "United States"
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      "short_blurb": "The Exorcist Steps. Ninety-seven of them — dropping sixty feet from Prospect Street to M Street below. Before the movie, people called them the Hitchcock Steps. Not because Alfred Hitchcock ever used them.",
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      "short_blurb": "Look at this building.",
      "description": "Look at this building. Really look at it.\n\nThe J. Edgar Hoover Building. Two point eight million square feet of Brutalist concrete. It has been voted the ugliest building in America.",
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        "name": "Chicago",
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      "is_featured": true,
      "url": "https://badhistorian.com/stories/chicago/the-field-museum/"
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        "name": "New York City",
        "country": "USA"
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      "short_blurb": "The Flatiron Building.",
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        "name": "New York City",
        "country": "USA"
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      "short_blurb": "Look in the windows around you. Lacquered ducks hanging by the neck, glossy and bronze. Trays of pork buns. Bakery cases of mooncakes.",
      "description": "Look in the windows around you. Lacquered ducks hanging by the neck, glossy and bronze. Trays of pork buns. Bakery cases of mooncakes. This is the eating heart of Chinatown, so let's talk about the food — specifically, the enormous American lie that is Chinese food. Start with chop suey. For the first half of the twentieth century, chop suey was the most popular restaurant dish in America.",
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        "slug": "washington-dc",
        "name": "Washington DC",
        "country": "United States"
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      "short_blurb": "Seven and a half acres. Four outdoor rooms. Waterfalls that get louder as you walk deeper. A bronze breadline. A bronze dog. And all of it built for a man who specifically said — do not build me a monument.",
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      "short_blurb": "This side of the tower has the color on it. Eighty-three feet of glass mural by Julie Mehretu, called Uprising of the Sun, which is the one part of this building that looks like it's moving. Mehretu is worth a second.",
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      "short_blurb": "You're on Bourbon Street.",
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      "short_blurb": "Look up at that square tower with the windows arranged in three vertical rows on every side. Those windows are not decoration. Read them. Circle, cross, circle. On all four faces of the building.",
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      "short_blurb": "Everything about this corner tells you a theater should be at street level. The Palace is thirty feet above your head, sitting inside the tower with the giant screen wrapped around its base — the entire auditorium, a hundred and thirteen…",
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      "short_blurb": "You hear it before you see it. Then you turn the corner and the whole thing hits you at once — a Baroque explosion of gods and horses and crashing water, built straight into the back wall of a palace, far too big for the little square…",
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      "short_blurb": "You're standing over the Boardman River, right where it runs through the middle of downtown. Some folks up here also call it by its older Anishinaabek name, the Ottaway.",
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      "short_blurb": "Look up at the building in front of you. That enormous brick castle with the spires — nearly a quarter of a mile long, one continuous building — is the reason I told you to come here.",
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        "country": "United Kingdom"
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      "short_blurb": "The Willard Hotel.",
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        "country": "USA"
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      "short_blurb": "The Tenth Avenue Square.",
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        "name": "London",
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      "short_blurb": "Look up.",
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        "name": "Chicago",
        "country": "USA"
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      "short_blurb": "Get close to the base of the pale Gothic tower with the crown of stone spikes on top. Down at hand height, set into the limestone, there are ragged little chunks of rock with labels chiselled under them. That one's the Parthenon.",
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        "name": "New York City",
        "country": "USA"
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        "name": "Washington DC",
        "country": "United States"
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        "name": "New York City",
        "country": "USA"
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      "category": "landmark",
      "short_blurb": "West Twenty-sixth Street.",
      "description": "West Twenty-sixth Street. Look at the buildings on both sides of you. Glass towers, luxury condos, restaurants with outdoor seating at street level. None of this was here twenty years ago.",
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      "name": "Union Square",
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        "name": "San Francisco",
        "country": "United States"
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      "category": "landmark",
      "short_blurb": "See that column in the center of the square? Ninety-seven feet tall, bronze figure of Nike on top — the Greek goddess of victory, not the shoe company",
      "description": "See that column in the center of the square? Ninety-seven feet tall, bronze figure of Nike on top — the Greek goddess of victory, not the shoe company.",
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        "name": "Rome",
        "country": "Italy"
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      "short_blurb": "You're on the wide, straight boulevard that runs from the basilica down toward the river. It gives you that famous, uninterrupted view of the dome. And it was a mistake — or at least, it undid something Bernini designed on purpose.",
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      "short_blurb": "This wide riverside road and the gardens beside it are the Victoria Embankment, and none of this land is natural. It's built on top of the river.",
      "description": "This wide riverside road and the gardens beside it are the Victoria Embankment, and none of this land is natural. It's built on top of the river. To understand why, you have to go back to the summer of eighteen fifty-eight, when London smelled so bad the government nearly ran away. They called it the Great Stink.",
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      "name": "Washington Square Park",
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        "slug": "new-york",
        "name": "New York City",
        "country": "USA"
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      "category": "landmark",
      "short_blurb": "That arch.",
      "description": "That arch. White marble, seventy-seven feet tall, modeled after the Arch of Titus in Rome.",
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      "name": "Watergate Complex",
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        "slug": "washington-dc",
        "name": "Washington DC",
        "country": "United States"
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      "short_blurb": "The Watergate Complex.",
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      "name": "Westminster Abbey",
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        "name": "London",
        "country": "United Kingdom"
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      "short_blurb": "That's Westminster Abbey. Every English and British monarch since ten sixty-six has been crowned in that building — forty of them, right up to King Charles a couple of years ago.",
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        "name": "London",
        "country": "United Kingdom"
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      "short_blurb": "That elegant white stone building on Whitehall is the Banqueting House. It looks like one nice building on a street of nice buildings. It is actually a survivor — the last standing piece of the biggest palace in Europe.",
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