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Donna McColl

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Armchair traveller turned global roamer. Lover of history, art and adventure travel. Rock & ice climber, alpine & nordic skier. Wife, mother and firm believer in the people-before-things lifestyle.

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Bei Tou Incinerator

Taipei, Taiwan

Bei Tou Incinerator

A waste incinerator with a restaurant on its chimney.

The Little Church

Drumheller, Alberta

The Little Church

A six-person chapel in the middle of Alberta's badlands.

Leaning mailboxes.

Taipei, Taiwan

Leaning Mailboxes

These charming mailboxes became social media stars after a typhoon failed to topple them.

Shipwreck Lodge

Namibia

Shipwreck Lodge

Ten shipwreck-shaped chalets lie along the sand dunes on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.

Chunks of the Gibeon Meteorite.

Windhoek, Namibia

The Gibeon Meteorites

A public display of prehistoric space rocks is named for the Namibian village where they were found.

Fresh snow is preserved by radiating sandstone heat by the shade provided by a Pinyon Pine tree.

Grand Junction, Colorado

Rattlesnake Canyon Arches

This remote Colorado canyon is home to the second-largest collection of natural arches in the world.

Nellie Bly Kaleidoscopes

Jerome, Arizona

Nellie Bly Kaleidoscopes

A kaleidoscope gallery and steampunk emporium named for a pioneering journalist.

The temple at dusk.

Singapore

Buddha Tooth Relic Temple & Museum

This $62 million dollar temple was erected to house one little dental fragment of religious history.

Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute

Bangkok, Thailand

Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute

A collection of venomous snakes and reptiles for the whole family to enjoy.

Wat Yannawa, the Boat Temple.

Bangkok, Thailand

Wat Yannawa Boat Temple

Founded during the Ayutthaya era, this unique Buddhist temple remains shipshape to this day.

Giant Swing

Bangkok, Thailand

Giant Swing

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

Golden Buddha sits in on a marble pedestal.

Bangkok, Thailand

Golden Buddha of Wat Traimit

This enormous gold Buddha statue was hidden inside a stucco decoy for centuries.

Mae Nak Phra Khanong shrine at Wat Mahabut.

Bangkok, Thailand

Wat Mahabut

A shrine honoring a legendary ghost bride lies within this vibrant temple.

The statues on display

Reggio Calabria, Italy

Riace Bronzes

Two of the few remaining life-sized Greek bronzes were submerged in the sea for over 2,000 years.

Crypt of wealthy church donors, one level below.

Syracuse, Italy

Chiesa di San Filippo Apostolo

Built on a medieval synagogue, this church has a burial crypt, tunnel system, and Jewish ritual bath hiding deep underneath.

Looking down on Voidokilia Beach.

Messinia, Greece

Old Navarino Castle

Ruins of a 13th-century fortress perched above a breathtaking Mediterranean bay.

The House of Cavaliere
Permanently Closed

Messina, Italy

The House of Cavaliere

An eccentric home in Sicily turns heads on a regular basis.

Torri Morandi

Messina, Italy

Torri Morandi

An abandoned building that once tightened a power line that stretched across Messina Strait.

Pylons of Messina

Messina, Italy

Pylons of Messina

Climb the dead electric pylons of Messina.

Physics of the Sun

Changikhisarak, Uzbekistan

Physics of the Sun

More than 10,000 small mirrors cover the curved surface of the world's second-largest solar oven, located in a remote village in Uzbekistan.

Riberão do Meio

Centro, Brazil

Riberão do Meio

A natural waterslide in Brazil’s most expansive national park.

The fort cuts an imposing figure from the sea.

Civitavecchia, Italy

Fort Michelangelo

The famous sculptor had a hand in this imposing fortress.

‘Planet’

Singapore

'Planet'

A giant baby floats in the middle of Singapore’s nature park.

The mysterious elephant.

Catania, Italy

Elephant Fountain

A mysterious ancient elephant said to possess magic powers is now the symbol of a Sicilian city.

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