Arthur’s Seat: An Extinct Volcano in the Middle of Edinburgh
Arthur’s Seat is the eroded remains of a volcano that was last active around 350 million years ago, long before Edinburgh existed…
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Bali: An Island Where Rice Terraces Are Governed Like Democracy
Bali’s famous rice terraces are managed through subak, a cooperative irrigation system dating back to at least the 9th century, in which…
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The Brooklyn Bridge: A Bridge That Killed Its Own Designer
The Brooklyn Bridge’s designer, John Augustus Roebling, never saw it built. He died of tetanus in 1869 after a ferry accident crushed…
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Notre-Dame: A Cathedral Rebuilt From Its Own Ashes
Notre-Dame de Paris took nearly two centuries to build, construction began in 1163 and wasn’t fully complete until around 1345, spanning the…
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Buckingham Palace: A Family Home That Became a Nation’s Address
Buckingham Palace wasn’t originally built as a royal residence at all. It began life in 1703 as Buckingham House, a private townhouse…
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The Louvre: A Fortress, a Palace, and Finally a Museum
The Louvre began as a medieval fortress, built around 1190 by King Philip II to defend Paris from the west, decades before…
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The Acropolis: A Ruin Built to Outlast an Empire
The Parthenon, the Acropolis’s most famous structure, was built in just under a decade, between 447 and 438 BCE, under the direction…
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The Alhambra: A Palace Built to Feel Like Paradise
The Alhambra’s name comes from the Arabic al-hamra, “the red one,” a reference to the reddish clay used in its outer walls,…
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Table Mountain: A Flat-Topped Giant Older Than the Himalayas
Table Mountain is astonishingly old, its sandstone dates back roughly 260 million years, making it older than the Himalayas, the Alps, and…
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Angkor Wat: A Temple Built to Mirror the Universe
Angkor Wat was built in the early 12th century by King Suryavarman II as a state temple, originally dedicated to the Hindu…
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Uluru: A Rock That Changes Colour and Refuses to Be Climbed
Uluru rises 348 metres from the flat red desert of Australia’s Northern Territory, but that’s only the visible portion, geologists estimate the…
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Banff: A National Park Born From a Railway’s Hot Springs
Banff exists, in large part, because of a business opportunity. In 1883, workers building the Canadian Pacific Railway stumbled on natural hot…
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