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City of Manazan
City of Manazan Naturally protected city carved from a rock faceDating back to the Byzantine Empire, the City of Manazan features an entire rock face, carved to create a vertical village of tiny rooms....
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Hanging Temple of Hengshan
Hanging Temple of HengshanA 5th-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliffThe Hanging Temple, located about 60 km southwest of Datong, China in Shanxi province, is one of the world's...
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North Yungas Road
North Yungas RoadDeath road of BoliviaYungas road in Bolivia is a motorway that achieved a high degree of Internet notoriety. Due to abysmal driving conditions it has earned the nickname "Death Road"...
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Pigeon Point Lighthouse
Pigeon Point LighthouseA New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-doDriving down the coast along California's famous Highway 1 is many a road tripper's dream....
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Kjeragbolten
KjeragboltenGiant boulder suspended over a 1000-meter abyssHidden in the Norwegian mountains, Kjeragbolten is a place that looks like something from Middle Earth. Kjeragbolten is a boulder wedged in a...
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Frankenstein Cliff
Frankenstein CliffRock face that shares a name with Mary Shelley's famous doctorFrankenstein Cliff is not named after who you might think. Not an uncommon name in Germany, the cliff itself was named...
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Owia Salt Pond
Owia Salt PondNatural Caribbean swimming pool ringed by bizarrely artistic lava rock formationsAt the north end of the Southern Caribbean island of St. Vincent, near the small fishing town of Owia, is...
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ASARCO Mission Mine and Mineral Discovery Center
ASARCO Mission Mine and Mineral Discovery CenterOne of the largest open-pit copper mining operations in the entire countryOne of the largest open-pit copper mining operations in the entire country,...
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Ytterby Mine
Ytterby MineThe single richest source of elemental discoveries in the worldArmy lieutenant and part-time chemist Carl Axel Arrhenius was excited when, in 1787, he came across a strange heavy black rock...
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Turda Salt Mine
Turda Salt MineTable salt and halotherapy beneath the ground As with many natural resources in Europe, the Romans were the first to the table. They began excavating Turda Salt Mine in the 2nd century...
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3N Cave - The World's Largest Salt Cave
3N Cave - The World's Largest Salt CaveRecently discovered, the worlds largest salt cave is filled with fragile salt sculptures, salt rivers and huge salt megadomesSalt caves are, at least in a...
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Khewra Salt Mines
Khewra Salt MinesThe world's second largest salt mine, said to have been discovered by Alexander the Great's horseIn 326 BC, Alexander the Great, the Greek King famous for conquering an empire ranging...
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The Kansas Underground Salt Museum
The Kansas Underground Salt MuseumThe worlds oldest organism was reanimated within the salty walls of this mineThe Kansas Underground Salt Museum would be a curious site all on its own. Sixty five...
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Detroit Salt Mine
Detroit Salt MineOver a thousand feet beneath the Detroit streets is a subterranean metropolis few are allowed to enterDetroit is known for many things: the auto industry, the failure of the auto...
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Salt Ponds of San Francisco
Salt Ponds of San FranciscoFrom the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brighten the grey landscape of the San Francisco BayAs the plane banks to make its final pass before landing at the San Francisco...
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Empire Mine State Park
Empire Mine State ParkThe Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."The Empire Mine was the shining diamond of the setting of the gold rush,...
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Green-Wood Cemetery's Brooklyn Theatre Fire Memorial
Green-Wood Cemetery's Brooklyn Theatre Fire MemorialMass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst firesOn December 5, 1876, a lantern on the stage of the Brooklyn Theatre would cause a horrific...
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Calvary Cemetery
Calvary CemeteryHolding the most interments of any cemetery in the United StatesWith over 3 million burials, Calvary Cemetery in Queens has more interments than any other cemetery in the United States....
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Mountain View Cemetery
Mountain View CemeteryMiller Pyramid on Millionaire's Row, Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland CADesigned by Frederick Law Olmsted, this historic cemetery holds crypts of many famous founders of...
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The Cemetery of the Danvers Hospital for the Criminally Insane
The Cemetery of the Danvers Hospital for the Criminally Insane Basis for H.P. Lovcraft's Horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum, now a horrifying condoDanvers State Hospital for the Criminally...
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