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by amazingplanetnews · Published October 5, 2013 · Last modified June 5, 2015
The Georgia Aquarium holds more than 8.5 million gallons (31,000 cubic meters) of salt and fresh water and displays up to 120,000 animals that represent 500 species – setting the new world record for...
Amazing Places / Guinness World Records
by amazingplanetnews · Published October 5, 2013 · Last modified June 5, 2015
San Alfonso del Mar is a private resort in Algarrobo, Chile, about 100 km (62 mi) west of the capital Santiago. The resort is recognised as having the world’s largest swimming pool. San Alfonso del...
Amazing Places / Guinness World Records
by amazingplanetnews · Published October 5, 2013 · Last modified June 5, 2015
Jiaozhou Bay Bridge or Qingdao Haiwan Bridge is a 26.7 km (16.6 mi) long roadway bridge in eastern China’s Shandong province, which is part of the 41.58 km (25.84 mi) Jiaozhou Bay Connection Project....
Amazing Places / Guinness World Records
by amazingplanetnews · Published October 5, 2013 · Last modified June 5, 2015
The JW Marriott Marquis Dubai Hotel is the world’s tallest hotel, a 72-storey, 355 m (1,165 ft) twin-tower skyscraper complex in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The AED1.8 billion features a 1,608-room hotel run by...
Amazing Places / World History
by amazingplanetnews · Published October 2, 2013 · Last modified June 5, 2015
The Kollur Mine in Guntur district of old Golkonda kingdom, India, was one of the most productive diamond mines in India and the first major diamond center. It is situated on the right bank...
Amazing Places / Guinness World Records / World Heritage
by amazingplanetnews · Published September 28, 2013 · Last modified July 22, 2015
The highest mountain in the world is Mount Everest. Its peak rises to 8,848 m (29,028 ft 9 in) – the highest point in the world. Mount Everest is the Earth’s highest mountain,...
Amazing Places / Guinness World Records / World Heritage
by amazingplanetnews · Published September 28, 2013 · Last modified June 5, 2015
Angel Falls is the World’s Highest Waterfalll in Venezuela, with a height of 979 m and a plunge of 807 m. The waterfall drops over the edge of the Auyantepui mountain in the Canaima...
Amazing Places / World Heritage
by amazingplanetnews · Published August 7, 2013 · Last modified June 5, 2015
Bora Bora is an island in the Leeward group of the Society Islands of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the Pacific Ocean. The island, located about 230 km (140 mi) northwest...
Amazing Places / Amazing Stories / World Heritage / World History
by amazingplanetnews · Published May 26, 2013 · Last modified June 6, 2015
The Holy Monastery of Great Meteoron – This is the largest of the monasteries located at Metéora. It was erected in the mid-14th century and was the subject of restoration and embellishment projects in...
Amazing Places / Amazing Stories / World Heritage / World History
by amazingplanetnews · Published May 26, 2013 · Last modified June 6, 2015
The Metéora is one of the largest and most important complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Greece, second only to Mount Athos. The six monasteries are built on natural sandstone rock pillars, at the...
Amazing Places / World Heritage
by amazingplanetnews · Published May 1, 2013 · Last modified June 6, 2015
The Ultimate Dream Island Nothing says South Seas escape more than Bora-Bora. This is the very island that had travelers hocking their worldly possessions for a romantic sojourn: nights in the island’s over-water bungalows...
Amazing Places / World Heritage
by amazingplanetnews · Published February 25, 2013 · Last modified June 6, 2015
Easter Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeastern most point of the Polynesian Triangle. A special territory of Chile that was annexed in 1888, Easter Island is famous...
Amazing Places / World Heritage
by amazingplanetnews · Published February 24, 2013 · Last modified June 6, 2015
The Nazca lines are enormous drawings on the ground that streth across the Nazca desert in southern Peru. They were designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. The high, arid plateau stretches...
Amazing Places / World Heritage
by amazingplanetnews · Published February 24, 2013 · Last modified June 6, 2015
Stonehenge is a circle of 17 upright stones called sarsens which stands on salisbury Plain in Southwest England. It is a prehistoric monument in the English county of Wiltshire, about 2 miles (3.2 km) west...
Amazing Places / Amazing Stories
by amazingplanetnews · Published February 24, 2013 · Last modified June 6, 2015
Teotihuacan also written Teotihuacán, is an enormous archaeological site in the Basin of Mexico, 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Mexico City, containing some of the largest pyramidal structures built in the pre-Columbian Americas. The...
Amazing Places / World Heritage
by amazingplanetnews · Published February 24, 2013 · Last modified June 6, 2015
Cappadocia is a historical region in Central Anatolia, largely in Nevşehir Province, in Turkey. This bizarre but beautiful place located in the ancient region of Anatolia in modern day Turkey may be one of...
The Hanging Temple or Hanging Monastery is a temple built into a cliff (75 m or 246 ft above the ground) near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Shanxi province, China. The closest city...
This incredible walled town has been built on the top a massive rocky outcrop within the Haraz Mountains of western central Yemen in a region known as the San‘a’ Governorate. Its history is so...
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