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Bridges have been state of art for road construction, shortening the ground distances, bridges have always played role in meeting up the inaccessible sites via ground. The inaccessibility of most sites via ground is mainly due to deep, hollow naturally created long spaces, we have collected some of the top highest bridges from the world, that are ranked on the basis of their height from the ground level. Few of them may be under construction, b...

Think Paris and Venice are a little too mundane? Tired of going to the same old places? If you really want a romantic vacation and one that neither of you will ever forget, check out one of these places. San Camp, Botswana While spending time together in the middle of nowhere in Africa may not be your idea of a romantic getaway. Think again, Botswana is one of the most popular and modern states in Africa and while San Camp is in the middle of n...

Mount Whitney, California Glacier National Park, the United States Croagh Patrick, County Mayoof Ireland Mount McKinley, Alaska Salir de Uyuni, Bolivia Mumin Papa Cafe, Japan Alcatraz Island, San Fransisco of the United States Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon, Hong Kong Vilcabamba, Ecuador Changi Airport in Singapore ...

A dozen huge grass sofas have been installed at tourist attractions around the UK -- in a bizarre bid to get couch potatoes out of the house. The sofas - some of which are 30ft long - are the idea of the National Trust and are made from a base of straw which has been watered and trimmed to size, and covered in a green grass blanket. Bosses came up with the odd idea after it was revealed the average family spends 43 hours a week sat on t...

Once a year, tens of thousands of tourists gather in a town in Spain to hurl over one hundred tons of overripe tomatoes … all in just one hour. When the festival is called to a halt fire houses are used to clean the streets as well as the participants. For this brief but amazing food fight the size of the town quadruples, drawing visitors from all over the world to participate in the largest spaghetti sauce bath of all time. Particip...

Screaming Tunnel, Niagara Falls There are many monuments and other places all over the world which are famous for ghost stories and incidents surrounding them, and are known to be haunted. The Screaming Tunnel of the Niagara Falls also happens to be one of them. The name itself is such that one can realise the kind of “screams” attached with this location! GRAVITY HILL, Pennsylvania Phenomenon Well, it m...

White Cyclone White Cyclone is a wooden roller coaster at Nagashima Spa Land in Mie Prefecture, Japan. At 1,700 meters in length, White Cyclone is the fourth longest wooden roller coaster in the world, and is the longest wooden roller coaster outside of the United States. Despite its length, White Cyclone is still considerably shorter than the 2,479 meter Steel Dragon 2000, the world’s longest steel roller coaster, which is also at Nagas...

Sometimes creating a movie requires a very special environment which can’t be found anywhere in the world or filming on the real location is just too expensive. In that manner, filming companies are creating their own small towns or theme parks for most expensive movies. Universal Studio is well known filming company which is part of NBC Universal and it owns a few of theme parks where fans of their most viewed movies can feel the atmosp...

Johan Huibers is the 50-year-old builder of the Dutch ark. A contractor by trade, Huibers built the ark of cedar and pine. Huibers did the work mostly with his own hands, using modern tools and with occasional help from his son Roy. On the uncovered top deck is a petting zoo, with baby lambs and chickens, and goats, and one camel. The ark is one-fifth the size of the Biblical original. Visitors on the first day were stunned. Huibers said he h...