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The La Playa Hotel is a historic two-story hotel in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, once owned by artist Chris Jorgensen. The building is an example of Mediterranean Revival architecture. The building qualified as an important commercial building and was registered with the California Register of Historical Resources on September 21, 2002.
The La Playa Hotel, dates to ...
La Posada Hotel was designed in the Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival architecture styles by Mary Jane Colter in 1929. Characteristic features of those architectural styles found at La Posada include shady colonnades and arcades, roofs covered in red clay tiles, stuccoed walls and decorative wrought ironwork. Built in 1930, La Posada is one of the last of a...
La Quebrada (Spanish for "gulch" or "ravine") is one of the most famous tourist attractions in Acapulco, Mexico. Divers entertain tourists by jumping off the 35 meter (125 ft) high cliff. The divers must calculate the right moment to jump to catch an incoming wave and avoid serious injury or death. Occasionally jumpers dive with a torch. Most of the divers come f...
La Quinta Resort - Club is a legendary hideaway and meeting destination renowned since 1926 for its charm and serenity. La Quinta Resort - Club features 90 holes of some of the country*s best golf including the famous TPC Stadium Golf Course at PGA WEST and the picturesque Mountain/TM/ Course at La Quinta Resort. World-class Spa La Quinta/TM/ offers resort guests a va...
Larabanga is a village in West Gonja district, a district in north western Northern Region of Ghana. The village is known for its whitewashed, adobe Sahelian mosque, said to date from 1421. It was at the height of the trans-Saharan trade. It is reputed to be Ghana's oldest mosque and houses a copy of the Qur'an almost as old.
The village is also known for its Mystic S...
Set in a 19th-century mansion, this luxury hotel is a 2-minute walk from the nearest metro station, and 5 minutes' walk from both Avenue des Champs-Élysées and the Grand Palais museum complex.Featuring antiques and silk-clad walls, the elegant rooms offer free Wi-Fi, flat-screen TVs and marble bathrooms, plus personal butlers. They also have minibars and...
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and most powerful particle collider, the most complex experimental facility ever built, and the largest single machine in the world. It was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries, as wel...
There are multiple claims to the world's biggest ball of twine record, all within the United States.
Darwin, Minnesota, is the home of a ball of baler twine rolled by Francis A. Johnson. It is 12 feet (3.7 m) in diameter and weighs 17,400 pounds (7,900 kg; 8.7 short tons). Johnson began rolling the twine in March 1950, and wrapped it for four hours dai...
Though perhaps not the world’s largest, the birdcage is one of Casey’s most popular large objects. Located next to the wind chime, the cage is 8 feet wide and 10 feet tall on the inside, and 13 feet tall on the outside. It features a swing inside, also making it a prime spot for photos. Like most of the structures, the birdcage was made with used objects. ...
There are multiple claims to the world's biggest ball of twine record, all within the United States.
In Branson, Missouri, a ball of nylon twine built by J. C. Payne of Valley View, Texas, is on display in Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum. The ball, which measures 41.5 feet (12.6 m) in circumference, was certified as the world...
The giant watermelon slice is 25 feet long is a roadside attraction in Green River, Utah. Built in the 1950s to take part in Green River's Watermelon Days (now call the Melon Days) festival. It is stored in an open-air shed in the parking lot of the John Wesley Powell River Museum.
La Rinconada is a city in the Peruvian Andes located near a gold mine. It is the highest elevation human habitation in the world.
The city is located in the Ananea District, San Antonio de Putina Province. It lies at a height of 5,100 m (16,732.28 feet) above sea level.
The economy is mainly based on the production of gold in the nearby mine.
Many miners work at the g...
The igloo exterior of Luke's house was filmed about 300 kilometers away on the dried-up salt lake of Chott El Jerid, Tunisia. This little building is in the middle of nowhere and was abandoned after first movie shooting was wrapped. It was deteriorating but was refurbished when the later prequels once again had use for it. After the prequels it once again was abandone...
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