This building in Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey is an excellent example of architectural styles stratification over the centuries.

It shows three distinct periods:

- Roman Byzantine Empire (bottom),
- Ottoman Empire (middle),
- Republic (three upper floors)

Mt. Tateyama rises 3,015 meters in Japan’s Hida Mountains and is considered one of the country’s Three Holy Mountains.

The Hida Mountains receive as much as 38 meters of snow a year. Piled continuously, that would be snow nearly half as high as the Statue of Liberty.

Amazingly, there is a highway, Route 6, which begins in the coastal city of Toyama, approaches the western flank of Mt. Tateyama and reach a specific point.

In Japan this particular stretch of highway is known as yuki-no-otani, or Snow Canyon.

World's greatest religious buildings

Meenakshi Temple, Tamil Nadu, India






Hallgrímskirkja, Reykjavík, Iceland


Kinkaku-ji, Kyoto, Japan
Once the private residence of a villainous shogun, Kinkaku-ji — "the Temple of the Golden Pavilion" — was converted into a Zen Buddhist temple by his son.
That was 600 years ago. It was burned down by a monk in the 1950s and rebuilt beam for beam.


Fanjingshan Temples, Guizhou, China

The Choluteca Bridge in Honduras was built with such design strength that it could withstand the worst of hurricanes. When Hurricane Mitch came in 1998, it dumped 75 inches of rain in less than four days and destroyed 150 Honduran bridges, but not the Choluteca Bridge.

While the bridge itself was in near perfect condition, a wider view revealed that the roads on either end of the bridge had completely vanished, leaving no visible trace of their prior existence. Of even greater significance, however, was the fact that during the massive flooding caused by the hurricane, the several hundred feet wide Choluteca River had carved itself a new channel and no longer flowed beneath the bridge at all; the bridge now spanned dry ground.

Kaleni ocelove karoserie tanku

Koza Brněnská, hrad Špilberk

A photographer captured a stunning image of Christ the Redeemer “holding” the Moon after three years of attempting to get the shot.

Angolian artist paints himself painting himself

Towns and cities that look spectacular from above

Madrid


Barcelona


Centuripe, Sicily, Italy


Gangi, Sicily, Italy


Fort Bourtange, the Netherlands


Saint-Malo, France

Front Street in Lahaina, Maui. People abandoned their vehicles, jumping into the ocean to escape the fire.

JWST našel galaxii ve tvaru otazníku

Zapadající Měsíc ukrojený siluetou Lomnického štítu.
Neuvěřitelný záběr pořídil Tomasz Ziajor v červenci 2019 z polské obce Pstrągowa, která je od Vysokých Tater vzdálena přes 140 km!
Chce to „jen“ čistý vzduch, vhodné načasování, dobrý teleobjektiv a velkou dávku štěstí.

Kyrys vojáka, kterýho u Waterloo trefila dělová koule.

Road to Burning Man Festival, Nevada.

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St Elizabeth's Hospital was renovated by only preserving the façade. víc fotek a info tady:
themindcircle.com/st-elizabeths-hospital/

This iconic photograph is still considered one of the most-terrifying space photographs to date. Astronaut Bruce McCandless II became the first human being to do a spacewalk without a safety tether linked to a spacecraft. In 1984, he floated completely untethered in space with nothing but his Manned Maneuvering Unit keeping him alive.

Polská vesnice Sułoszowa, kde všech 6000 obyvatel žije ve stejné ulici

Obří cikáda, Tacua Speciosa

The RMS Queen Elizabeth arriving in New York with soldiers returning home after the end of World War 2, 1945