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Ferndale / Ferndale

Ferndale

Ferndale

Ferndale - a town in redwood. In the area covered by the most powerful of the world?s most powerful sequences, Ferndale is home to a delicate name: the fern val more...

Ferndale California United States



Alberobello / Alberobello

Alberobello

Alberobello

Alberobello - secret of trulls. Alberobello?s story is a legend of the most astonishing case of tax fraud. The town was built in such a way that it could be dem more...

Alberobello Apulia Italy



Bonifacio / Bonifacio

Bonifacio

Bonifacio

Bonifacio - flower on the strait. The first resident of the town was Dame de Bonifacio. Her skeleton found in one of the caves, comes from 6500 BC. The town cou more...

Bonifacio Corsica France




Holloko / Holl?k?

Holloko

Holl?k?

It is a town where the Middle Ages ended yesterday. And it really ended in 1959, when both current water and electricity were brought in. There were no longer n more...

Holloko Nograd Hungary



Houses of Weavers in Chemsko Slaskie.  / Domy Tkaczy w Chemsko Slaskie.

Houses of Weavers in Chemsko Slaskie.

Domy Tkaczy w Chemsko Slaskie.

Houses of Weavers in Chemsko Slaskie. It is a small city on the Bober near the border with the Czech Republic. It used to be weaving center, as in the seventeen more...

Chelmsko Slaskie Lower Silesia Poland



Konin post - the oldest road sign in Central and Eastern Europe in Konin / Najstarszy znak drogowy w Europie ?rodkowo-Wschodniej w Koninie

Konin post - the oldest road sign in Central and Eastern Europe in Konin

Najstarszy znak drogowy w Europie ?rodkowo-Wschodniej w Koninie

Konin post - the oldest road sign in Central and Eastern Europe in Konin. It is located on the left bank of the Warta, the old town of Konin, next to the Gothic more...

Konin Greater Poland Poland



Royal Oaks Route in the Bialowieza Forest. / Szlak Debow Krolewskich w Puszczy Bialowieskiej

Royal Oaks Route in the Bialowieza Forest.

Szlak Debow Krolewskich w Puszczy Bialowieskiej

On the eastern Polish border with Belarus extends the oldest Polish forest. Created here in Poland, the oldest national park and nature reserve protection of zu more...

Bialowieza Podlasie Poland



Stein am Rhein

Stein am Rhein

Stein am Rhein is a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen in Switzerland. In or around 1007 Emperor Henry II moved St George?s Abbey from its former locati more...

Stein am Rhein Schaffhausen Switzerland



Tianluokeng tulou cluster

Tianluokeng tulou cluster

Tianluokeng tulou cluster are invincible Hakka?s home. Hakka were a kind of Chinese Gypsies. In addition to the delicious cuisine (umami taste), this population more...

Shuyang Fujian China



Super Pit

Super Pit

Kalgoorlie - a mining town situated in Western Australia. The town?s origins date back 1893 when a group of Irish gold miners were forced to stay in the area. I more...

Kalgoorlie Western Australia Australia



The Kremlin Arsenal / Оruzenaja palata

The Kremlin Arsenal

Оruzenaja palata

The Kremlin Arsenal is located in a building built in 1851 by architect Constantine Thon. They are stored there for centuries in tsarist treasury precious items more...

Moscow Moscow Russia



The Sherlock Holmes Museum 221b Baker Street

The Sherlock Holmes Museum 221b Baker Street

The Sherlock Holmes Museum 221b Baker Street in London - the heroes of novels and short stories of Arthur Conan Doyle lived under a non-existent in reality the more...

London City of London, England United Kingdom



The monument of the potato  / Pomnik ziemniaka

The monument of the potato

Pomnik ziemniaka

The village Biesiekierz located not far from Koszalin, since the sixteenth century was part of the assets of Holken family, whose head office was located in a n more...

Biesiekierz West Pomeranian Poland



Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge) / Ponte Vecchio

Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge)

Ponte Vecchio

Ponte Vecchio (the Old Bridge), bridge called also The City of Goldsmiths - is the famous bridge over the River Arno, known as the oldest stone bridge in Europe more...

Florence Tuscany Italy



Pfund Molkerei / Dresdner Molkerei Gebruder Pfund

Pfund Molkerei

Dresdner Molkerei Gebruder Pfund

Dresden Pfund family shop from 1880 ? it is the most beautiful dairy shop in the world, certified by Guinness Book. It is the work of renowned company Vileroy & more...

Dresden Saxony Germany



Lace Museum in Koniakow / Muzeum Koronki w Koniakowie

Lace Museum in Koniakow

Muzeum Koronki w Koniakowie

Koniakow is a little town known for its manual lace-making. It all began in the late nineteenth century. Among the townspeople reigned fashion to adorn clothing more...

Koniakow Silesia Poland



Private Museum of Technique and Motorisation / Prywatne Muzeum Motoryzacji i Techniki w Otr?busach

Private Museum of Technique and Motorisation

Prywatne Muzeum Motoryzacji i Techniki w Otr?busach

Private Museum of the Automobile and Technology in Otrebusy was established in 1995, but the exhibits were collected many years earlier, and their renovation an more...

Otrebusy Masovia Poland



Stutthof Concentration Camp / Ob?z koncentracyjny w Sztutowie (Konzentrationslager)

Stutthof Concentration Camp

Ob?z koncentracyjny w Sztutowie (Konzentrationslager)

Stutthof Concentration Camp was established at the outbreak of World War II, 2 September 1939. Here, from the first days of the war they were deposited Poles an more...

Sztutowo Pomerania Poland



Hans Christian Andersen Fairy-Tale House

Hans Christian Andersen Fairy-Tale House

Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 ? 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Andersen?s fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, hav more...

Copenhagen Central Denmark Denmark



Fragonard Museum in Grasse  / Mus?e Fragonard

Fragonard Museum in Grasse

Mus?e Fragonard

Fragonard perfume museum where you can explore historic factory, a museum of perfumes and cosmetics in the store to buy a company. Since the eighteenth century, more...

Grasse Provence-Alpes-C?te d?Azur France



Museum of Bread in Radzionkow / Muzeum Chleba w Radzionkowie

Museum of Bread in Radzionkow

Muzeum Chleba w Radzionkowie

Museum of Bread in Radzionkow is an institution, which brings together exhibits on the history of bread. The museum was opened on April 26th 2000. There are col more...

Radzionkow Silesia Poland



Greater Fire Service Museum  / Muzeum Po?arnictwa w Rakoniewicach

Greater Fire Service Museum

Muzeum Po?arnictwa w Rakoniewicach

Greater Fire Service Museum - it is a museum presenting archival materials, accessories and equipment related to the topic fire fighting. The museum was opened more...

Rakoniewice Greater Poland Poland



Helsingborg Old Town

Helsingborg Old Town

Helsingborg is one of the oldest cities in Sweden, officially established May 21, 1085 year (then in Denmark). The location at the narrowest point of the Sound more...

Helsingborg Skane Sweden



Coral Castle

Coral Castle

Coral Castle - the sculpture garden in stone was built by one man, Edward Leedskalnin. In years 1923-1951, he single-handedly and secretly carved over 1,100 ton more...

Homestead Florida United States



Museum of Milling and Water Equipment / Muzeum Historii M?ynarstwa i Wodnych Urz?dze? Przemys?u Wiejskiego

Museum of Milling and Water Equipment

Muzeum Historii M?ynarstwa i Wodnych Urz?dze? Przemys?u Wiejskiego

Museum of Milling and Water Equipment of Rural Industry Museum was located in 1981 on the river Welna, on a former mill settlement. Exposures were deployed in t more...

Jaracz Greater Poland Poland



Museum of Cats / KattenKabinet

Museum of Cats

KattenKabinet

KattenKabinet was created by William Meijer to commemorate his favorite cat Tom, also called John Pierpont Morgan (known American banker). Tom lived from 1966 t more...

Amsterdam North Holland Netherlands



Governors Island National Monument

Governors Island National Monument

Governors Island National Monument is located in Manhattan, New York City on 22 acres (89,000 m2) of Governors Island. Governors Island has played a role in the more...

New York City New York United States



Rose Museum Kazanlak / Мuzеj nа rоzy Kazan?yk

Rose Museum Kazanlak

Мuzеj nа rоzy Kazan?yk

Rose Museum in Kazanlak lies at the eastern end of the famous Rose Valley. Bulgaria is the major supplier of a certain type of rose oil in the world and Kazanla more...

Kazanlak Stara Zagora Bulgaria



Beekeeping Open-Air Museum in Swarzedz / Skansen Pszczelarski w Swarz?dzu

Beekeeping Open-Air Museum in Swarzedz

Skansen Pszczelarski w Swarz?dzu

Open-air museum in Swarzedz presents a collection on beekeeping and silk industry. In the museum you can take a look at the history of beekeeping, bees bred rac more...

Swarzedz Greater Poland Poland



Project Riese near Walim / Muzeum Sztolni Walimskich

Project Riese near Walim

Muzeum Sztolni Walimskich

Riese is the code name for the construction project of Nazi Germany in 1943?45. In the north - western part of the Owl Mountains (Eulengebirge) and in the vicin more...

Walim Lower Silesia Poland



Museum - Writings Workshop of Arkady Fiedler  / Muzeum ? Pracownia Literacka Arkadego Fiedlera

Museum - Writings Workshop of Arkady Fiedler

Muzeum ? Pracownia Literacka Arkadego Fiedlera

Arkady Fiedler Museum is the museum dedicated to the life and work of Arkady Fiedler traveler, located in Puszczykowo near Poznan. Arkady Fiedler (November 28, more...

Puszczykowo Greater Poland Poland



Museum Collection Coaches in Lancut / Muzealna Kolekcja Pojazd?w in ?a?cut

Museum Collection Coaches in Lancut

Muzealna Kolekcja Pojazd?w in ?a?cut

Lancut Castle is one of the most beautiful aristocratic residences in Poland. It is famous for its excellent interiors and extraordinarily interesting collectio more...

Lancut Subcarpathia Poland



Samarkand - Bibi-Khanym Mausoleum and Mosque / Samarqand - Mauzolej i meczet Bibi Chanum

Samarkand - Bibi-Khanym Mausoleum and Mosque

Samarqand - Mauzolej i meczet Bibi Chanum

Samarkand is one of the oldest cities in the world - it has more than 2500 years, which is the same age as cities such as Rome or Athens. In ancient times it wa more...

Samarkand Samarqand Uzbekistan



Portuguese Photography Center / Centro Português de Fotografia

Portuguese Photography Center

Centro Português de Fotografia

Portuguese Photography Center was founded in 1997 by Ministerio da Cultura. Centre has its headquarters in a former prison, which has been renovated and adapted more...

Porto Porto Portugal



Dulag 121 Pruszkow / Durchgangslager 121 Pruszk?w

Dulag 121 Pruszkow

Durchgangslager 121 Pruszk?w

Dulag 121 Pruszkow - German Nazi transit camp, where civilians gathered in Warsaw and surrounding villages, removed from their homes during and after the Warsaw more...

Pruszkow Masovia Poland



National Air and Space Museum

National Air and Space Museum

The National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC has thousands of objects on display, including the 1903 Wright Flyer, Charles Lindbergh?s Spirit of St. Loui more...

Washington D.C. Maryland United States



Stawisko - Anna and Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz Museum / Muzeum Anny i Jaros?awa Iwaszkiewicz w Stawisku

Stawisko - Anna and Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz Museum

Muzeum Anny i Jaros?awa Iwaszkiewicz w Stawisku

Anna and Jaros?aw Iwaszkiewicz received on her wedding day (1922) Anna?s estate from his father, Stanislaw William Lilpop, which they called Stawisko, where, in more...

Podkowa Lesna Masovia Poland



Lahti Ski Museum  / Lahden Kaupunginmuseo

Lahti Ski Museum

Lahden Kaupunginmuseo

This museum is small and hidden.What museum is all about it?s skies and Lahti winter games. The first part of the museum covers the history of skiing in Finland more...

Lahti Paijanne Tavastia Finland



Hershey Chocolate World

Hershey Chocolate World

Hershey?s Chocolate World - the sweetest place on earth - Hershey, Pennsylvania. The story of Hershey?s spans nearly a century and a half of industrial and soci more...

Hershey Pennsylvania United States



Pennsylvania Amish of Lancaster County

Pennsylvania Amish of Lancaster County

Pennsylvania Amish Country is a picturesque landscape, rolling hills with lush grasses and crops, farms with windmills dotting the horizon and horse and buggies more...

Lancaster Pennsylvania United States



Castle of the Teutonic Order in Ostroda / Zamek krzy?acki w Ostr?dzie

Castle of the Teutonic Order in Ostroda

Zamek krzy?acki w Ostr?dzie

Castle of the Teutonic Order in Ostroda is one of the oldest and most interesting Gothic monuments located in Ostroda. The first prosecution stronghold situated more...

Ostroda Warmia-Masuria Poland



Money Museum of the Bank of Lithuania / Lietuvos banko Pinigų muziejus

Money Museum of the Bank of Lithuania

Lietuvos banko Pinigų muziejus

Money Museum of the Bank of Lithuania is a museum which worth a visit, it have a lot of exhibits, lots of interesting things. Convenient location, sightseeing f more...

Vilnius Vilnius Lithuania



Museo Poldi Pezzoli

Museo Poldi Pezzoli

Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan is one of the richest private art collections in the world, especially from the collections of famous Italian and Flemish paintings more...

Milan Lombardy Italy



Miniworld Rotterdam

Miniworld Rotterdam

Miniworld Rotterdam is an unusual exhibit with the small, kooky scenes that you must look closely (accidents, cow on surfboard, Teletubbies, etc.). In Miniworld more...

Rotterdam South Holland Netherlands



Gettysburg National Military Museum

Gettysburg National Military Museum

Gettysburg early in the second half of the nineteenth century was a small American town. At the height of the Civil War, this place became, however, the scene o more...

Gettysburg Pennsylvania United States



Grave of Tzadik David Biderman / Ohel cadyka Dawida Bidermana

Grave of Tzadik David Biderman

Ohel cadyka Dawida Bidermana

Lelow is a very old little town, his beginnings dated is from 1193. It was an important center of Hasidism, the Jewish community had two burial places. The olde more...

Lelow Silesia Poland



Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde / Vikingeskibsmusee

Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde

Vikingeskibsmusee

In Roskilde, about 60 km from Copenhagen?s it is Viking Ship Museum with the great reconstructed Viking boats. They measure 31 meters long and can accommodate u more...

Roskilde Zealand Denmark



The Butterfly House / Das Schmetterlinghaus

The Butterfly House

Das Schmetterlinghaus

The Imperial Butterfly House is housed within a stunning palm house, built during the Art Nouveu period at the beginning of the last century. It is part of the more...

Vienna Vienna Austria



Museum of Rural Musical Instruments / Muzeum Ludowych Instrument?w Muzycznych

Museum of Rural Musical Instruments

Muzeum Ludowych Instrument?w Muzycznych

Museum of Rural Musical Instruments housed in a Gothic-Renaissance castle in Szydlowiec, located on an island surrounded by a moat, in a romantic park setting. more...

Szydlowiec Masovia Poland



Duna Promenade in Budapest / Duna-korzo

Duna Promenade in Budapest

Duna-korzo

Duna Promenade in Budapest (hun.Duna ? korz?) piece of waterfront along the Danube and Pest stretching between the bridge of Elizabeth and the Chain Bridge. The more...

Budapest Budapest Hungary



American Visionary Art Museum

American Visionary Art Museum

American Visionary Art Museum is an art museum located in Baltimore. The museum specializes in the preservation and display of outsider art (also known as "intu more...

Baltimore Maryland United States



Open Air Museum in Ciechanowiec / Skansen w Ciechanowcu

Open Air Museum in Ciechanowiec

Skansen w Ciechanowcu

Ciechanowiec is one of the oldest towns in Podlasie, received the Magdeburg city rights around 1413, and the oldest preserved city documents come from the sixte more...

Ciechanowiec Podlasie Poland



Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was one of the oldest, largest, most important railroads in the history of the mid-Atlantic region. During its peak years, the r more...

Baltimore Maryland United States



Oscar Kolberg Museum in Przysucha / Muzeum im. Oskara Kolberga w Przysusze

Oscar Kolberg Museum in Przysucha

Muzeum im. Oskara Kolberga w Przysusze

Oscar Kolberg - ethnographer, folklorist, composer, he was the creator of the source foundations of modern sciences of culture: ethnography, ethnology, folklore more...

Przysucha Masovia Poland



Brewery U Fleku / Pijalnia piwa U Fleku

Brewery U Fleku

Pijalnia piwa U Fleku

Bierkeller "U Fleku" is the oldest and most famous brewery restaurant in the world. Its foundation dates back to 1499 years, when Vit Skremenec, brewer, began t more...

Prague City of Prague Czech Republic



National Memorial House of Tadeusz Kosciuszko / Muzeum narodowe pami?ci Tadeusza Ko?ciuszki

National Memorial House of Tadeusz Kosciuszko

Muzeum narodowe pami?ci Tadeusza Ko?ciuszki

Philadelphia is a symbolic city, as it was here that signed the United States Declaration of Independence, the Constitution was adopted and created the Union. F more...

Philadelphia Pennsylvania United States



Pere-Lachaise

Pere-Lachaise

Pere-Lachaise is the most beautiful and largest cemetery in Paris and one of the largest cemetery in the world. The name of the cemetery comes from the name Jes more...

Paris Ile-de-France France



The National Katyn Memorial / Narodowy Pomnik Katy?ski

The National Katyn Memorial

Narodowy Pomnik Katy?ski

The National Katyn Memorial in Baltimore memorializes the victims of the 1940 Katyn massacre of Polish nationals carried out by Soviet forces. It was erected on more...

Baltimore Maryland United States



Klodzko Fortress / Twierdza K?odzko

Klodzko Fortress

Twierdza K?odzko

Klodzko Fortress - Stronghold is the most valuable piece of modern defense architecture in Poland, which has its origins in the tenth century, in the place wher more...

Klodzko Lower Silesia Poland



Lublin Castle / Zamek w Lublinie

Lublin Castle

Zamek w Lublinie

The origins of the castle are associated with the rise in the twelfth century castellany Lublin when it was erected on a hill fortified castle wood-natural emba more...

Lublin Lublin Province Poland



Saint Stefan Islet / Sveti Stefan

Saint Stefan Islet

Sveti Stefan

Sveti Stefan is a small islet and hotel resort in Montenegro, circa 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) southeast of Budva. Once an island, connected to the mainland by a cau more...

Budva Budva Montenegro



Mostar

Mostar

Mostar ? capital Herzegovina, is one of the most beautifully situated cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, located at the foot of the mountains and along the curre more...

Mostar Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia & Herzegovina



Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum

Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum

Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum is the former home of American writer Edgar Allan Poe in the 1830s. Poe (January 19, 1809 ? October 7, 1849) was an American au more...

Baltimore Maryland United States



Kluki open-air museum / Skansen w Klukach

Kluki open-air museum

Skansen w Klukach

Kluki is a village 32 km (20 mil) north-east of Slupsk. Kluki was settled by the Slovincians in the sixteenth century and features an open-air museum, Muzeum Ws more...

Kluki Pomerania Poland



Ronda

Ronda

Ronda is a city in the Spanish province of Malaga. The city is situated on both sides of the gorge of the river Guadalevin, it has a very defensive position. Th more...

Ronda Andalusia Spain



Piotrkowska Street / Ulica Piotrkowska

Piotrkowska Street

Ulica Piotrkowska

Piotrkowska Street is a representative street of Lodz, has a length about 4.2 km and is the longest street in Europe. It was established with the first settleme more...

Lodz Lodz Province Poland



National Museum of Dentistry

National Museum of Dentistry

National Museum of Dentistry is located in Baltimore. It exhibits the history of dentistry in United States and throughout the world. The museum?s extensive 40, more...

Baltimore Maryland United States



Erfurt

Erfurt

Erfurt is the capital city of Thuringia. It was first mentioned in 742, as Saint Boniface founded the diocese. The town quickly became the economic centre of th more...

Erfurt Thuringia Germany



Przypkowscy Clock Museum / Muzeum zegarow in. Przypkowskich

Przypkowscy Clock Museum

Muzeum zegarow in. Przypkowskich

Clock Museum in Jedrzejow was a result of handing over the collection of sundials, astronomical instruments and antique books library by the family Przypkowski. more...

Jedrzejow Holy Cross Province Poland



National Museum of the American Indian

National Museum of the American Indian

National Museum of the American Indian ? belonging to the Smithsonian Institution museum dedicated to the history, the life, languages, literature and art Ameri more...

Washington D.C. Maryland United States



Greenwich

Greenwich

Greenwich is an early-established district of today?s London, England and the administrative centre of the Royal Borough of Greenwich centred 5.5 miles (8.9 km) more...

London City of London, England United Kingdom



Radziwill Palace and Nieborow garden / Pa?ac Radziwillow i ogr?d w Nieborowie

Radziwill Palace and Nieborow garden

Pa?ac Radziwillow i ogr?d w Nieborowie

Radziwill Palace with its garden in Niebor?w is a baroque palace, which was built in the eighteenth century and survived to our times in its original shape. The more...

Nieborow Lodz Province Poland



Archaeological site of Knossos

Archaeological site of Knossos

The archaeological site of Knossos is sited 5 km southeast of the city of Iraklion.There is evidence that this location was inhabited during the neolithic times more...

Iraklion Crete Greece



Warsaw Uprising Museum / Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego

Warsaw Uprising Museum

Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego

Museum is dedicated to Warsaw Uprising of 1944, when the inhabitants of Warsaw tried to overcome German occupants. more...

Warsaw Masovia Poland



Polish Army Museum / Muzeum Wojska Polskiego

Polish Army Museum

Muzeum Wojska Polskiego

Museum located in the center of Warsaw, near the Vistula River, presenting history of Polish army from the Middle Ages until today. In the outside part of the m more...

Warsaw Masovia Poland



USS Intrepid Museum

USS Intrepid Museum

USS Intrepid, an aircraft carrier built in World War 2, fought in the Pacific surviving five kamikaze attacks and one torpedo strike later to serve during Cold more...

New York City New York United States




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