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Artistic Subway System Of Stockholm

Posted on 04 January 2012 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

When you enter the subway system in Stockholm, you’re not sure whether you’ve entered an art exhibition or a transport system. That subway system is said to be the longest art exhibition in the world, about 110 kilometers in length. There are 100 subway stations around Stockholm, and about 90 of them are decorated with [...]

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Detroit – Town That Is Falling Apart

Posted on 17 November 2011 in: Featured Articles, Places

Detroit has become a ghostly town. Its population has really fell from 1950 till today. It used to live about 2 million people, now it lives only 700 000. No jobs and poverty has driven away families to live outside the city. When driving through the city you will notice lots and lots of abandoned [...]

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The Hills We Wish Were Full Of Chocolate

Posted on 25 August 2011 in: Featured Articles, Places

The hills of Bohol province in the Philippines has nothing to do with chocolate, but still they are called the Chocolate hills. Disappointing, but true. We know you would all like to visit a chocolate heaven.   These hills got the name because during the summer times, the green grass turns into a chocolate brown [...]

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Storseisundet Bridge Of Norway Leads You To The Edge

Posted on 22 July 2011 in: Featured Articles, Places

They call it the drunk bridge or the bridge to nowhere, but it’s just the Storseisundet Bridge in Norway. It is a part of the “Atlanterhavsveien” which means Atlantic Ocean Road. A lot of tourists actually come here to see this crazy bridge, because it’s really something to see. It’s still a mystery why the [...]

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The Incredible Volga Delta

Posted on 21 July 2011 in: Featured Articles, Places

You will maybe recognize the river on these photos or maybe you’re not familiar with it. It’s the Volga Delta, the largest river delta in Europe. It drains into the Caspian Sea in Russia’s Astrakhan Oblast. During the past century Volga has grown because of level changes, but it’s still an amazing river delta. It [...]

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Beautiful Parts of West Siberia We Didn’t Know About

Posted on 05 July 2011 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Photography with an “above-view” has always been popular. Here we have a selection of those kinds of photos of The Novosibirsk region which is a part of the West Siberian Plain. It’s a huge area that’s about 178,2 thousand square kilometres. It’s mainly plain but in north there are some huge woodland with lots of [...]

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Concordia Research – The Loneliest Place On Earth

Posted on 29 June 2011 in: Featured Articles, Places

Have you ever wondered how the end of this planet looks like? Now you guys got the chance. On the Antarctic Plateau in Antarctica there is located the Concordia Research Station which operate every day every year. The summer temperature tend to be -25C, so just imagining the winter makes you scared. You would maybe [...]

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Immortal Bridge In China Made From Rocks

Posted on 17 June 2011 in: Featured Articles, Places

The Yellow Mountains in China has some amazing heights. It is so high up there that you can literally see how the clouds are touching the mountain walls under you. That’s right, under you. One of the mountains Mount Tai has something that they call the Immortal Bridge. It’s basically a bridge that is made [...]

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Mysterious Persian Cliff With A Lot Of History

Posted on 12 April 2011 in: Featured Articles, Places

North of the ancient city Persepolis in Iran is a weird cliff named Naqsh-i-Rustam located. The construction of the cliff is amazing, and it’s weird that people way back then actually succeeded in shaping it that way. It has massive doors that goes right into the walls of the cliff. It’s a total of 4 [...]

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White Desert Of Brazil

Posted on 04 April 2011 in: Featured Articles, Places

Deserts are beautiful but they can also seem very threatening because of the stories that describe them. The hot sun, the snakes, the heavy sand to walk in, no water, no clouds, hallucinations and death. Yes, that’s how most people know the desert. But the Maranhenses National Park is like a desert, only it’s super [...]

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Ancient Caravanserais That Are Left Behind

Posted on 24 January 2011 in: Featured Articles, Places

If you don’t know what a caravanserai is, let me explain. Back in the days when travelers used the Silk Road to come to his destination with goods or whatever, they had these staging posts so the traveler could rest. Without the posts the traveler wouldn’t make it through the desert. There were thousands of [...]

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Stunning Open Air Museum in Japan

Posted on 28 December 2010 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

If you live in Japan, you probably recognize the stuff that is in the pictures. That is actually a large open air museum that is obviously held outdoors. It contains a lot of works from different artists, and it is located somewhere between Tokyo and Mount Fuji. This will attract a lot of tourist because [...]

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Sheep Moving In To “Hobbiton”

Posted on 07 December 2010 in: Animal Oddity, Featured Articles

Hobbiton is known as the little village in the Lord of the rings trilogy, where the Hobbits are living in small houses. In real life that place is called Matamata and is located in New Zealand. After shooting the movie, the little village became a tourist attraction, and the reason for that is not only [...]

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When Two Waters Meet You Get This Result

Posted on 04 December 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

This phenomenon is something that you need to see. In Manaus, that is the largest city in the Amazonas, there are two rivers that literally meet each other. The rivers are Rio Negro and the Amazon, and they have completely different colors, so when the phenomenon happens you can see the contrasts from the water. [...]

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Beautiful and Colorful Gondolas in a Parade Equals the Historical Regatta

Posted on 16 October 2010 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

At first glance these pictures look like they are capturing a river carnival, but the truth is that it’s nothing else than the Historical Regatta, also known as the most traditional event in Venice, held every year on the first Sunday of September. It has a tradition way back in 1315 when Venice was under [...]

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Abandoned, Rusty and Old Military Base in Murmansk

Posted on 07 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

After the World War II in 1946 this military base was built near Murmansk city on the northern Russian side to protect the coastline. Now it is just abandoned and spooky-looking. Old canons and other instruments used to make the defense even better, are left behind and looking kind of rusty today. Taking a walk [...]

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Paris Beaches On The Streets

Posted on 06 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, WTF

One of Paris’s several tourist attraction is this artificial beach called “Paris Beach”. The special thing about this beach is that it is built in a section of the pedestrian bank by the river Seine in the middle of Paris. It’s has become a huge success; more and more visitors are coming each year, and [...]

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Spectacular Crystal Cave 1000ft Under Mexican Desert

Posted on 02 September 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

This cave under The Chihuahua Desert in Mexico is actually a working mine that is known for its amazing crystals. The name of the cave is Naica Mine, is located 1000ft under ground, and it was discovered by two miners that was also brothers when they were drilling into the Naica lead. The chamber of [...]

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Glowing Stars Under The Ground

Posted on 01 September 2010 in: Animal Oddity, Featured Articles

We have all seen glowing stars on the sky at night, but what about seeing stars under the ground? You get the chance to do that in the Waitomo Glowworm Cave on the North Island of New Zealand. Of course the “stars” are not real; they are glowing worms that is hanging from the ceilings [...]

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Beautiful Underwater Caves in Bahamas Blue Holes

Posted on 23 August 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

The Bahamas – known for its tropical islands, miles upon miles of sandy beaches, clear warm water and coral reefs. But it hides a little secret called the “blue holes” that are located under the water and look like beautiful blue vertical caves. Bahamas has quite a few blue holes that make up a whole [...]

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