Fabulous art made out of junk

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Pop Artist Jason Mecier creates one of a kind outrageous mosaic portraits. He meticulously fabricates anybody out of all sorts of things from food to yarns.

Hotel built from salt blocks

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Palacio de Sal (Spanish for "Palace of salt") is a hotel built of salt blocks, located at the edge of Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia - the world's largest salt flat.

Would you hike this path?

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The 2154m tall Mount Huashan is considered to be one of 5 sacred mountains in China and also one of the scariest hiking routes.

Amazing 3D street artist

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Julian Beever is a British sidewalk chalk artist who has been creating trompe-l'œil chalk drawings on pavement surfaces since the mid-1990s.

Going underground to book into a hotel

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Cooper Pedy which is known for two things - Opal and Underground Homes. Here most of the houses are underground including the hotel.

Trampe – The bicycle lift of Trondheim, Norway

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The Trampe bicycle lift (Norwegian: Sykkelheisen Trampe) was invented and installed in 1993 by Jarle Wanwik.

The world’s largest Holstein cow sculpture

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Perched atop the only hill visible for miles is the pride of New Salem, North Dakota: Sue, the world’s largest Holstein cow sculpture.

The town situated entirely inside a massive meteorite crater

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The town of Nordlingen in the Donau-Ries district of Bavaria, Germany, is unlike any other town in the district....or in the world!

The steepest street in the world

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Located in the city of Dunedin, in southern New Zealand, the Baldwin Street has earned the distinction of being the steepest street in the world.

Teufelsberg - a Cold War listening post

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Teufelsberg ('Devils mountain') is a hill (120,1m) in the Grunewald Forest in Berlin and is made out of debris of World War II. Teufelsberg played the role of its life in the drama known as the Cold War – as an American listening station.

Fly geyser - a geological wonder

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A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder

The incredible rice terraces of Longsheng

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The Longsheng Rice Terraces, also called the Longji Terraced Fields or Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces, offer some of the most fantastic views in China or indeed the world. 

The trees of Slope Point..

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 On a small patch of land at the southernmost tip of New Zealand’s South Island, the trees of Slope Point are unlike anything else in the world.

South Georgia and it's forgotten whaling stations

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Established in 1909 and closed down in 1965, Leith Harbour on South Georgia's whaling station of  was one of the busiest stations in the world. It is now a no-go area to visitors, due to high levels of asbestos and derelict buildings . 

Age old natural air conditioning

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BĀDGĪR (wind-tower –also  called a "shish-khan “) is traditional Persian architecture used for passive air-conditioning of buildings. Shish-khans can still be seen on top of ab anbars in Qazvin, and other Middle Eastern buildings

The inhabitants of the Saguaro cactus

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Saguaro cacti host a great variety of animals. The Gila woodpecker and Gilded flicker make nests inside the cactus' pulpy flesh. When a woodpecker abandons a cavity, there are a variety of other birds that may move in like purple martins, finches, elf owls, screech owls and sparrows.

Seals with stripes - The Ribbon Seal

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If you cross a zebra with a seal, what do you get? No real answer can be put to that question, of course, however there is a seal species which lives in the Arctic and subarctic regions of the Pacific Ocean which could just as well have been the product of a chance fling between the two species. It is called the Ribbon Seal (Histriophoca fasciata) and it is unique for its stripes.

The oldest living things on earth

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Searches for the world's oldest living things ranged from the Mojave Desert to the Australian Outback to Greenland's icy expanses to the desert areas of Namibia. The 43,600-year-old self-propagating shrub in Tasmania and  the 80,000-year-old colony of aspen trees in Utah are about the oldest things found

The everlasting paint job

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By constant attack from corrosive elements like salt air, road contaminants, aging, UV rays etc., the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco needs to be maintained on a daily basis - of which painting makes up for most of the maintenance. Only a few dozen painters scurry all over the bridge to keep it looking good at all times

Kennecott mine in Alaska - what happened?

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When prospectors were looking for pasture for their horses, they saw a green hill in the distance. On arrival in the vicinity, they discovered it was not grass, but a huge deposit of copper. 
A town and operations were soon established - only to collapse in 1939 when all the copper was exhausted. All that remained was the abandoned Kennecott Mine Camp.