Torre Glòries, Spain

Torre Glòries, Spain

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Nature

Wonders of nature

Canyons, waterfalls, glaciers and coasts — places no one designed, chosen for how they look, not for how famous they are.

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blue holeEgypt

Blue Hole

A few kilometres north of Dahab, on the Sinai coast of the Gulf of Aqaba, the fringing reef opens into a near-circular shaft of dark blue water.

urban parkSpain

Park Güell

Park Güell was supposed to be a real estate project, and by that measure it was a total failure.

tepuiVenezuela

Mount Roraima

Geologists call formations like this a tepui — "house of the gods" in the language of the Pemón, the Indigenous people who have lived around it the longest — and the name fits better than most translated place-names do.

duneBrazil

Lençóis Maranhenses National Park

Lençóis Maranhenses means "bedsheets of Maranhão" — the name comes straight from the shape of the dunes, whose parallel ridges look like a tangle of linens left out to dry.

Human hands

Wonders made by people

Temples, bridges, castles and gardens — the most beautiful things people have built, one best example of each ensemble.

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mausoleumIndia

Taj Mahal

Shah Jahan began building this in 1631 as a tomb for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who had died giving birth to their fourteenth child.

pilgrimage siteLithuania

Hill of Crosses

Nobody recorded the day the first cross went up here, but the likeliest account ties it to the failed uprising of 1831 against Russian rule, when families who couldn't find or bury their dead began planting crosses on…

fortIndia

Agra Fort

Agra Fort is the walled citadel from which the Mughal emperors ruled northern India for most of a century, and it is the key to understanding everything else in Agra, the Taj Mahal included.

The world, beautifully chosen

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