These Are The Weirdest And Most Interesting Apple Stores On Earth [Gallery]
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Four Apple Stores in America alone have rooftop gardens. This one is from the Boylston Street Apple Store in Boston, Massachusetts, Four Apple Stores in America alone have rooftop gardens. This one is from the Boylston Street Apple Store in Boston, Massachusetts, but Chicago's North Michigan Ave. and Lincoln Park stores also have one, as well as Minneapolis' Uptown Apple Store.
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At just 540 square feet, this Apple Store in Santa Rosa Plaza in North California is the world's teensiest.
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Apple opened this store in the belly of Paris' Louvre Museum on November 7th, 2009. Appropriately, Apple now has a retail presence on what were once the palaces and gardens of kings.
John Brownlee is Cult of Mac's Deputy Editor. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his girlfriend and two parakeets. You can follow him 
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