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Wood Buffalo National Park – Alberta

[/caption] Spilling across Alberta’s northern border into the Northwest Territories, Wood Buffalo encompasses a large area of the subarctic plain. It is a huge national park, certainly the largest in Canada and one of the largest in the world. The … Continue reading

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Hala Ludowa – Wroclaw, Poland

The building, designed by architect Max Berg, is set on a quatrefoil plan, with a centrally positioned, circular 426-foot-wide (130m) hall connected by a double-ring foyer to 56 auxiliary exhibition spaces offset outward. Each side of the floorplan’s main axis … Continue reading

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Mount Tongariro

[/caption] The multi-coloured lunar-like volcanic massif of Tongariro, on New Zealand’s North Island, is both otherworldly and spectacular. A toxic, turquoise mountain lake surrounded by decaying, sand-hued decaying mounds, the Tongariro massif comprises several volcanic cones, rising to a peak … Continue reading

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Vizcaya Bridge – Bilbao, Spain

The Vizcaya Bridge, which crosses the mouth of the Nervion River northwest of Bilbao, is the world’s first transporter bridge. Its local name, Puente Colgante, which means ‘suspension bridge’, is something of a misnomer because the structure is quite different … Continue reading

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Altamira Caves – Santillana del Mar, Spain

Altamira belongs to the Franco-Cantabrian belt of decorated caves, which extends from southwest France to northeast Spain. The cave itself had been found by a huntsman in 1868, but it was only eleven years later that a 5-year-old girl noticed … Continue reading

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