Chambord Castle or the château of Chambord is one of the most magnificent architectural and historical features in France. It was built on the Cosson River near the Blois and it was the place where a lot of French kings used to spend their time in past. It is especially known to be a favorite place for king Louis XIV. This amazing castle was built in 16th century and it was a proof of the squandering nature of most of French kings. It contains 440 rooms and, when horses were used

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This rock has not much more usual than every other rock. It is just special by its placement, it seems that it is example of perfect balancing act found in nature. It can be found in Burma at the Moun Kyaiktiyo. Local people are known to give sacral value to anything unusual so it was similar with this rock. They have melted the gold (despite the fact that majority of people in Burma are very poor) and covered whole rock with it and gave it name Golden Rock. They even declared

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It is always entertaining to see and walk through a miniature version of some big city where you can see all famous buildings recreated in small versions. One of such parks called "park Karlshorst" has been built in Berlin where visitors can find miniature versions of some of the most known buildings from Berlin and Brandenburg. You can see a few of photos here taken in this park. If you decide to visit it yo can see there miniature versions of the Brandenburg Gate, Reichstag, Pergamon Museum and plenty of other buildings

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Iceland is northern country which is best known by large number of geysers but that is not only attraction for tourists to come in this country. Gullfoss waterfall (or Golden Falls) is one of the most visited attractions in Iceland. Gullfoss can be found in the canyon of Hvita river. Despite the fact that in there were some efforts to build an electricity power plant in this place which would certainly ruin this beautiful feature, Gullfoss waterfall has survived and now it is protected area. Gullfoss waterfall, together with neighboring Pingvellir and

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Hopewell Rocks are one of the most famous examples of tidal erosion. Those rocks are also called Flowerpot Rocks and they are located in The Rocks Provincial Park in New Brunswick, Canada. Those rocks are formed as a consequence of strong tidal forces for centuries. The most interesting part of those rocks, the base, is covered by the water twice per day but it is possible to see them in full shape during the low tide. During the low tide, Hopewell Rocks look like they are from another world. Their almost impossible

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Mono Lake is one of the most beautiful natural resorts where you should go if you are visiting California.  One of the most interesting and attractive things which can be seen in Mono Lake are tufa towers which became visible when the water level of the lake fell because of higher demand for water use amongst people who lived in neighbor. Tufa towers are actually rocks which were formed of carbonate materials. When water level in Mono Lake fell, it left those beautiful towers visible. People who come and see them

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When we hear about floating settlements then the very first thing what most of us will think about will be some futuristic design of floating settlement we already seen or similar. Very small number of us know that floating settlements are not something what occupies imagination of modern human only. There are a lot of evidences that floating settlements were pretty popular amongst people even in past and the fact that there are some which still do exist is pretty amazing. A few of such settlements can be found floating in

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Thailand is known by a plenty of cases of close cooperation of humans and animals. We already know that elephants are one of the most popular animals there but I would never expect to see a monkey to be police officer. It sounds unbelievable but it is very true, this monkey's name is Santisuk and he became a police officer. It was found with broken arm by one policeman who decided to take care about him. After healing the injury monkey was trained to pick coconuts. His task as a police officer

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