Red Rocks Ampitheater

Red Rocks Amphitheatre is considered by many as the greatest music venue in the world (including most of the people who submitted it). The naturally occurring amphitheatre is between two 320 foot monoliths, Ship Rock to the south and Creation…

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Thursday, 4th August 2005

Kata Tjuta

Next to Uluru are 36 are smaller monoliths known as Kata Tjuta (or ‘The Olgas’). The highest of the monoliths is Mount Olga which is 546 metres tall. Kata Tjuta used to be one gigantic monolith many times the size…

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Wednesday, 3rd August 2005

Greater Seat Park of Leisure

A shopping centre in Malaga has ‘Plaza Mayor, Parque de Ocio’ written on the roof. Babelfish tells me this Spanish sentence translates to “Greater Seat Park of Leisure”, which doesn’t make much sense, but a more educated person tells me…

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Wednesday, 3rd August 2005

Spiral Artwork

There’s some really cool Spiral artwork on a farmland near Snells Beach, New Zealand. The 80m wide artwork represents a Koru and is made of clay covered in grass. A recent New Zealand Herald article has more about the piece…

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Wednesday, 3rd August 2005

Heart Shaped Things

In French New Caledonia there’s a natural heart shaped swamp which featured on the cover of ‘Earth from Above‘, a collection of photographs by Yann Arthus Bertrand. The photo was titled ‘HEART IN VOH’. In Taipei there’s a heart shaped…

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Monday, 1st August 2005

Coca-Cola

Two factories of the Coca-Cola company. The first is in St. Petersburg, Russia and the other is somewhere in Germany. Thanks: Max & Bilbo

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Sunday, 31st July 2005

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The Futuro House

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Definitely a duck (maybe)

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Trollstigen (Troll’s path)

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