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The Old Windmill is located in Wickham Park, on Wickham Terrace in Spring Hill, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. According to the heritage notice (shown at left), it is the oldest surviving building in Queensland.
The Old Windmill was built in 1824 during colonial times by convicts for grinding grains, such as wheat and maize. The Old Windmill originally had wind-powe...
The statue of Kamehameha I (original cast) is an outdoor sculpture by American artist Thomas Ridgeway Gould, cast in 1880 and installed in 1883. It stands in front of the old country courthouse (North Kohala Civic Center) in the town of Kapaʻau, located in North Kohala on the Island of Hawaiʻi.
Made of cast brass and painted with lifelike colors, it depicts Kamehameha...
The Pantheon (an adjective meaning "to every god") is a building in Rome, Italy, commissioned by Marcus Agrippa as a temple to all the gods of Ancient Rome, and rebuilt by Emperor Hadrian in about 126 AD.
Every April 21st at noon (traditional date of birth of Rome), the sun's rays beam perfectly on the entrance doorway of the Pantheon.
The building is circular with a ...
The Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee is a full-scale replica of the original Parthenon in Athens. It was built in 1897 as part of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition.
Nashville's moniker, the Athens of the South, influenced the choice of the building as the centerpiece of the 1897 fair. A number of buildings at the Exposition were based on ancient originals, however ...
The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. As a symbol of the U.S. military,The Pentagonis often used metonymically to refer to the U.S. Department of Defense.
The Pentagon was designed by American architect George Bergstrom (1876–1955), and bu...
The Trestle is a fun spot to stop and see the artwork and take a break from off-roading. It's located towards the middle of the Plaster City Narrow Gauge Railroad over the Carrizo Wash at Milepost 15.3 on the east side of Fish Creek Mountains. The 26.8 mile line runs from a Gypsum Quarry in the Fish Creek Mountains down to the plant in Plaster City where they manufact...
The Presbytère is an architecturally important building in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. It stands facing Jackson Square, adjacent to the St. Louis Cathedral. Built in 1791 as a matching structure for the Cabildo, which flanks the cathedral on the other side, it is one of the nation's best examples of formal colonial Spanish architecture (with m...
The Queen's Staircase, commonly referred to as the 66 steps, is a major landmark that is located in the Fort Fincastle Historic Complex in Nassau. Around 1793, slaves carved this 102-foot (31-meter) staircase, comprised of 66 steps, out of solid limestone. Later it was named in honor of Queen Victoria’s 65-year reign and her role in abolishing slavery in the Bah...
A large whirlpool inside a 70-ft diameter acrylic bowl a falls 2 stories to a pool below. The artwork, a collaboration with architect Moshe Safdie, functions as both a skylight and a rain collector. The rain water is recycled back to the whirlpool and also fills a canal that runs through the atrium. The pumps that direct water into the bowl are turned on and off a few...
Mary King's Close is a historic close located under the Edinburgh City Chambers building on the Royal Mile, in the historic Old Town area of Edinburgh, Scotland. It took its name from one Mary King, a merchant burgess who resided on the Close in the 17th century. The close was partially demolished and buried due to the building of the Royal Exchange in the 18th centur...
Therme Vals is the hotel/spa complex in Vals, built over the only thermal springs in the Graubünden canton in Switzerland.
Peter Zumthor was selected as architect for the spa, despite his limited track record at the time, and the facility was built between 1993-1996. The baths were designed to look as if they pre-dated the hotel complex, as if they were a form of...
Thermopylae is a location in Greece where a narrow coastal passage existed in antiquity. It derives its name from its hot sulphur springs. "Hot gates" is also "the place of hot springs and cavernous entrances to Hades".
Thermopylae is primarily known for the battle that took place there between the Greek forces including the Spartans and the Persian forces, spawning t...
The Rolling Bridge is a type of curling movable bridge completed in 2004 at Paddington Basin, London. Every Friday at midday the hydraulic-powered construction is activated (regardless of boat traffic) for people to see it in action.
The Rolling Bridge was conceived by British designer Thomas Heatherwick who had to figure out a unique design to span the narrow Grand U...
Incense Route – Desert Cities in the Negev is a World Heritage-designated area near the end of the Incense Route in the Negev, southern Israel, which connected Arabia to the Mediterranean in the Hellenistic-Roman period, proclaimed as being of outstanding universal value by UNESCO in 2005. The trade led to the development of ancient towns, forts and caravanserai...
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