Showing posts with the label Landmarks

Nerodimka River Bifurcation

Feb 28, 2024

The Nerodimka river in the Nerodime region of Kosovo is the only river in Europe that drains into two different seas, a phenomenon known as ...

Ashkelon Dog Cemetery

Feb 5, 2024

About 50 km south of Tel Aviv, on the Mediterranean coast, near the ancient city of Ashkelon, archaeologists from the 1985 Leon Levi Expedit...

Musée des Plans-Reliefs

Jan 9, 2024

In the Hôtel des Invalides in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, is a museum dedicated to detailed military models of important towns ...

Barkway Carriage Wash

Jan 3, 2024

What looks like a pool of stagnant water by the side of the road in Royston, in Hertfordshire, is really the oldest carriage wash in the wor...

Glienicke Bridge: The Bridge Of Spies

Dec 19, 2023

In the Wannsee district of Berlin, Germany, there is a brief bridge spanning the Havel River, connecting the German capital to Potsdam. Hist...

The Divided Church of Gmünd

Dec 12, 2023

Near the town of Gmünd in the Austrian state of Carinthia stands the Divided Church (Geteilte Kirche am Kreuzbichl), so called because it is...

The Logan Rock of Treen

Dec 5, 2023

On the edge of the cliffs overlooking the English Channel, on a headland one mile south of Treen, in Cornwall, England, is a famous rocking ...

Sadd el-Kafara: The Oldest Dam in The World

Nov 6, 2023

About 40 km southeast of Cairo, close to the town of Helwan, lie the ruins of the Sadd-el-Kafara, a large embankment dam built approximately...

A Piece of Sputnik in Manitowoc, Wisconsin

Oct 30, 2023

In the early 1960s, before the Soviets sent Yuri Gagarin to space, they began their Vostok programme with a series of unmanned test flight...

Holmdel Horn Antenna: Where The Big Bang Was Discovered

Oct 26, 2023

Physicists and astronomers believe that the universe began with the Big Bang—a cataclysmic event that occurred roughly 13 billion years ago ...