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Great Mosque

Djenne, Mali

Great Mud Mosque of Djenné

The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.

The Atomium

Brussels, Belgium

The Atomium

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Argonaute Submarine

Paris, France

Argonaute Submarine

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

The strange creature on the Duomo portal

Milan, Italy

Milan's Duomo "Dinosaur"

Milan's duomo is covered in beautiful carving including a curious "dinosaur-like" beast.

EPFL Learning Center

Ecublens, Switzerland

EPFL Learning Center

The university library shaped like a giant piece of Swiss cheese.

Lavaux

Bourg-en-Lavaux, Switzerland

Lavaux

Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.

Palais de Rumine

Lausanne, Switzerland

Palais de Rumine

Florentine Renaissance style building in Switzerland, home to the world's largest taxidermy Great White Shark.

Il Gigante

Monterosso al Mare, Italy

Il Gigante

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

Friedrichstraße station in Berlin.

Berlin, Germany

Berlin-Friedrichstrasse Railway Station

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

New Yorker Hotel

New York, New York

New Yorker Hotel

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

Looking across the Hudson River towards New Jersey, at night

New York, New York

The High Line

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Can you hear it?

New York, New York

Times Square Hum

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Bandiagara Escarpment Cliff Dwellings

Bandiagara, Mali

Bandiagara Escarpment Cliff Dwellings

These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.

Inside the Todra Gorge

Province de Tinghir, Morocco

Todra Gorge

One of the most spectacular canyons in the world.

Tide Pools of Essaouira

Essaouira, Morocco

Tide Pools of Essaouira

Vast stretch of tide-pools with a unique Moroccan charm.

View of the valley

Trinidad, Cuba

The Manaca Iznaga Tower

An old slave lookout in Cuba's historic sugar cane fields.

Local boatman leave phallic statues as an offering to Phra Nang, a princess goddess.

Phela, Thailand

Phra Nang Cave

A phallic shrine to a princess goddess in Krabi, Thailand.

Etna erupting in 2002.

Belpasso, Italy

Mount Etna

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

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