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Puzzlewood – Tolkien’s Major Inspiration For LOTR

Posted on 01 November 2011 in: Featured Articles, People Oddity

Puzzlewood is an ancient woodland site in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, England. It has become a popular location for filming, and as you may know, J.R.R. Tolkien has used this woodland as inspiration for Lord of the Rings. Only he has called it Middle-Earth. This place is so magical that you would really [...]

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The River Fleet – An Amazing River In The Underground Of London

Posted on 29 August 2011 in: Featured Articles, WTF

It’s not enough that whole London has a complete underground system, it has a underground river too. It’s called the River Fleet and is London’s largest subterranean river. Long time ago Victorian engineers built a whole system of tunnels and chambers under London. The river can fill up to the roof in about 30 minutes, [...]

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Welcome to Cave City in Georgia

Posted on 19 November 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

In the European country Georgia you can find the beautiful Cave City of Vardzia. This is actually a cave monastery from year 1185 that is dug into the side of a mountain in southern Georgia. The purpose with the monastery was to protect citizens from the Mongols, and it could fit a lot of people [...]

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Salar de Uyuni – The World’s Largest Salt Flat

Posted on 19 May 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

Salar de Uyuni is placed in southwestern Bolivia and it is the world’s largest salt flat. It covers the surface of about 10,000 square kilometers. Its white surface and bright blue sky sometimes can make incredible scenes for viewers especially during the wet season when those salt fields are covered with water, then, this place [...]

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The Great Blue Hole of Belize, World’s Deepest Sea-Hole

Posted on 05 May 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

If you ever come by near the coast of Belize, you shouldn’t miss an opportunity to visit the Great Blue Hole, one of the world’s most recognizable natural wonders. The Great Blue Hole is located in Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System, about 60 miles away from Belize City. It is believed that this hole is [...]

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Abandoned Complex of Russian Anti-Missile Defense System

Posted on 03 May 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

You have probably heard about American project Echelon which is used by American intelligence to intercept different communication signals from all ower the world. They are pretty famous by their mysterious sphere-like shape. Well, United States are not the only who made such buildings. Russians made a few of them which are almost exactly same [...]

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Mysterious Fairytale Land In Ukraine

Posted on 30 March 2010 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Fairytales are one of the nice thing we happily remember from our childhood. Almost every child who have heard some fairytale got a wish to be a part of it. Fairytale land could be imagined as the place with a lot of colors, flowers, unusual plants, colorful mushrooms and similar things. Someone in Kiev, Ukraine, [...]

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Pitch Lake – A Natural Asphalt Resource

Posted on 02 March 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

Sir Walter Raleigh first discovered the Pitch Lake while cruising through La Brea in southwest Trinidad. The Pitch Lake is one of the several natural asphalt lakes in the world. Since its discovery in 1595, several investigations and research have been conducted to determine the chemical composition and use of this substance found in the [...]

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Beautiful Mirabell Gardens – The Dwarf Garden In Salzburg, Austria

Posted on 24 February 2010 in: Featured Articles, Lifestyle

Amidst the beautiful Mirabell Gardens, in Salzburg, Austria, the “Dwarf Garden” (‘The Zwerglgarten’) is located. It was built by Prince Archbishop Franz Anton Harrach in 1715, to commemorate the dwarves who were the models of entertainment, served in the Prince’s court. It has an inspiring history for the foreigners and the peasants of the town. [...]

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San Zhi-Haunted Homes Of Taipei

Posted on 07 February 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

San Zhai looks like an abandoned housing complex from Taipei, Taiwan. The rounded domes of the houses are an architectural delight and fantastically futuristic. The houses were built in the early 1980’s and targeted at rich Taipei residents of that time. The homes were built far from the city and served as homes for vacation [...]

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Phonehenge – Remarkable Replica Of Stonehenge

Posted on 04 January 2010 in: Featured Articles, Places

Phonehenge is one of the fabulously done Stonehenge replicas, in the rock-and-roll themed amusement park called the Freestyle Music Park (formerly called as the Hard Rock Park) near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It is playfully entitled Phonehenge and surrounds a large performance space in the British Invasion section of the park. The park built on [...]

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The Island Of The Dolls – A Dark Tourist Attraction In Mexico

Posted on 16 December 2009 in: Featured Articles, Places

A world renowned tourist destination is “La Isla de la Munecas”- a Spanish name which means the Island of the dolls. This Island of dolls is situated in Mexico and as the name suggests, one expects to see a beautiful world which will leave an everlasting impression. But the reality is exactly opposite and very [...]

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