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12 of the World’s Most Fascinating Ruins
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10 Most Fascinating Mazes
1Longleat Hedge Maze (UK) Made up of more than 16,000 english yews, Longleat’s spectacular hedge maze –the world’s longest– was first laid out in 1975 by designer Greg Bright. The Maze covers an area of around 1.48 acres (0.6 hectares) with a total pathway length of 1.69 miles (2.72 kilometres). Unlike most other conventional mazes, …
15 of the World’s Greatest Living Rocks
The practice of creating buildings, sculptures or monuments by carving natural rock is called ‘Rock-cut architecture,’ a tradition with over 5000 years.Some famous, others little known, meet some of the most breathtaking works created from the ‘living rock.’ 1Great Sphinx of Giza (Egypt) A reclining lion with a human head that stands on the Giza …
10 Most Fascinating Castles and Palaces
1The Potala Palace: Tibet’s greatest monumental structure Perched upon Marpo Ri hill, 130 meters above the Lhasa valley, the Potala Palace rises a further 170 meters and is the greatest monumental structure in all of Tibet. In 637 Emperor Songtsen Gampo decided to build this palace on a hill, and the structure stood until the …
10 of the World’s Most Dangerous Roads
1The Death Road (Bolivia) The North Yungas Road, also known as The Death Road, is a 61 to 69 km road leading from La Paz to Coroico (Bolivia’s capital, to the Amazon region) in the Yungas region of Bolivia. It is legendary for its extreme danger: in 1995 the Inter-American Development Bank christened it as …
10 Alien-Looking Places on Earth
1Dry Valleys (Antartica) Antarctica’s Dry Valleys, with their barren gravel-strewn floors, are said to be the most similar place on Earth to Mars. Its fascinating landscape, located within Victoria Land west of McMurdo Sound, get almost no snowfall, and except for a few steep rocks they are the only continental part of Antarctica devoid of …
