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Shazdeh Garden, a stunning green oasis in the Middle of Iran's desert
Iranās Shazdeh Mahan Garden, meaning āthe Prince`s Garden in Mahanā, is a surprisingly lush garden full of greenery and water fountains surrounded by arid desert, that defies anything you know about a desert.
Located 6 kilometers from the city of Mahan, in Kerman Province, it is a historical Persian garden built by the Qajar Dynasty, at the end of the 19th century.
The rectangular complex isā¦
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Blonde Chocolate, a delicious treat created by mistake
The so-called āblonde chocolateā has yet to reach the popularity of its counterparts milk, dark, and white chocolate, but it is already recognized as one of the most ingenious variations of white chocolate ever made.
Its history can be traced back to the year 2004, when French pastry chef Frederic Bau was busy showing off his skills during an exhibition in Japan.
Apparently he got so carried awayā¦
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PeĆ±Ć³n de VĆ©lez de la Gomera - a short history of the worldās smallest national border
Spain has almost 2000 kilometers of land borders with Portugal and France, but also much smaller borders with countries like Andorra, the United Kingdom, more precisely Gibraltar, and the African nation of Morocco.
It is with the latter that Spain shares the smallest land border in the world, an 85-meter-long stretch of land linking a rock about 19,000 square meters in size to the Moroccan coast,ā¦
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Dunino Den, a site of pagan worship which still attracts people looking for fairies
Believed by many to be haunted by fairies and other legendary creatures of Celtic folklore, the Dunino Den and its surrounding features definitely create a quaint supernatural atmosphere.
Shaded by woodland and shrouded in mystery, the area was an ancient ceremonial site for Druids who carved mystical symbols into rocks for future generations to discover.
Druidry, or Druidism, was a paganā¦
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Forgotten Giants - six beautiful wooden giants hidden around Copenhagen.
Ok. Probably hiding giants is a TALL order.
However Thomas Dambo, an artist who specializes in reclaimed and recycled materials, has managed to hide six in the area around Copenhagen.
And also the Forgotten Giants are no exception to this method, created from scrap wood collected from old, demolished buildings and felled trees.
The sculptures were deliberately placed off the beaten track, aroundā¦
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Meet the three Brujas of Kit Carson Cemetery!
Three witches are said to be buried beneath these unmarked concrete gravesā¦
Taos, New Mexico, is known for its natural beauty with its limpid skies, pure air and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains that encircle it like a magic protection ring.
But there is also the magical element, with unexplainable happenings that are now part and parcel of the town history.
And no matter where we go in the area, as we can find spooky, creepy, and haunted places to visit, such as the Kitā¦
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A short trip to Kilmuir Cemetery at Isle of Skye, Scotland
An unpaid bill, a stolen stone, and a famous fashion designer rest peacefully alongside a heroine of Highlands history.
This is, in short, Kilmuir Cemetery, in the quaint Isle of Skye, Scotland.
Well, most visitors to the site are there for the latter, Flora MacDonald, and the Celtic cross on her memorial fittingly dominates the view.
Dubbed not by chance the āHeroine of the Highlands,ā she wasā¦
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Gopalpur Lighthouse: the unsinkable rugged Indian lighthouse!
We are in Gopalpur, a small Indian beach town, where a no-name lighthouse withstood two of the biggest cyclones in recent memory, and continues to stand silently on one of the quietest beaches in the world.
The small town used to be an ancient port which fell into ruin, but regained its importance to maritime trade during British colonial rule, and today it survives on fishing as its mainā¦
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Rue Obscure, a medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village
A hidden medieval street stretches beneath the old quarter of Villefranche-sur-Mer, a French fishing village created by Charles II of Anjou, Count of Provence in 1295.
The only light to bathe its old stone walls and illuminate its arches comes from the artificial glow of a lamp or maybe from a fleeting flash from a someoneās phone.
In fact, as its name suggests, the āRue Obscureā is reallyā¦
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The month of April 2024: holidays, folklore and traditions
āApril cold with dripping rain
Willows and lilacs brings again,
The whistle of returning birds,
And trumpet-lowing of the herds.ā
āRalph Waldo Emerson (1803ā82)
By April, spring has finally sprung, and if weāre lucky, the weather will reflect that.
We hope that your sky is bright and clear and your grass is growing green.
In celebration, check out the monthās holidays, fun facts, monthly pinkā¦
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Discover the lost tradition of playing ball in church to celebrate easter!
In the nave of Chartres Cathedral, in the Centre-Val de Loire region in France and about 90 km southwest of Paris, the stones of the floor were arranged, already hundreds of years ago, to form a curious flat labyrinth with paths large enough for a person to walk its full winding course.
In medieval times, labyrinths represented a union of art and design with a cosmological worldview, suggesting aā¦
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Discover Sicily's Easter and āArches of Breadā centuries old tradition!
Spring represents a rebirth of nature.
Sicily does not have very cold winters, so spring arrives and nature reawakens here earlier than in other parts of Italy.
For example, already in March the almond trees are blooming in Agrigento!
Even the beloved story of the seasons takes place in Sicily, the myth of Demeter, the goddess of grains and harvests, and her beautiful daughter Persephone.
Whileā¦
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Hill of Crosses, an old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses as a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs
We are just outside of the town of Å iauliai, in northern Lithuania.
Kryžių Kalnas, the Hill of Crosses, is located on a low rise of ground once thought to have been a Domantai, a hill fort, and its exact origins remain a mystery.
Legends and several stories surround the history of the Hill of Crosses. First mention in writing dates to 1850, but some think the crosses appeared earlier.
The nearbyā¦
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Thousla Cross, a concrete memorial that commemorates a group of brave locals who saved the crew and passengers of a wrecked ship.
The Isle of Man, throughout its history, has seen its fair share of shipwrecks, with over 1,126 recorded within Manx territorial waters just 12 miles offshore of the island.
One which is rather significant to the Manx people of the Isle of Man is located on the southeastern tip of the island near the Calf of Man Islands.
The Thousla Cross stands at the southern tip of the Isle of Man as a symbolā¦
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Prince Frederickās chapel - a haunting (and maybe haunted) chapel ruins in South Carolina's woods
Is there anything more hauntingly beautiful than the dusty ruins of a 19th century gothic church?
South Carolina has more of them than you can imagine, including the ruins of Old Gunn Church, or Prince Frederickās chapel, in Plantersville.
Ok, today it looks a little bit creepy, even if you donāt believe in ghosts but, believe it or not, it began with a bout of optimism.
It was November 1859,ā¦
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Donner Pass Summit abandoned tunnels: one of the creepiest hike in Northern California
The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.
Theodore Judah had a dream: build a railroad through the Central Pacific, routed via the Sierra Nevada mountains.
It was the mid-19th century when the civil engineer surveyed a large stretch of the route to be used, also finding funds to make the transcontinental railroad a reality.
The tunnels at Donner Pass were constructed by Chinese laborers and took more than 15 months of hard work toā¦
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Bayburt ā Of (D915) ā discover one of the worldās most dangerous road
Stretching 106 km or 65 miles between the towns of Bayburt, the provincial capital of the Northeast Anatolia region in Eastern Turkey, to Of, a picturesque coastal town in the Black Seaās Trabzon Province, the D915 is an extreme road regarded by many motorists as the most diffcult in the world.
For many years, Boliviaās Yungas Road, or even the āDeath Roadā, held the unofficial title of worldāsā¦
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