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The Coastal Classic is a passenger and semi-luxury train operated by the Alaska Railroad that winds through the wilderness between the cities of Anchorage and Seward Alaska. It is a seasonal train, only operating between the months of May and September. The train popular for tourists visiting the glaciers. The train climbs into the Kenai Mountains and travels to the s...
From the 16th century, the isthmus of Panama became a global strategic asset facilitating the transportation of goods and people between the Iberian Peninsula and the colonies of the Kingdom of Spain in America, the archipelago of the Philippines and the Canary Islands. The serial property bears testimony of the crossing of the isthmus including strategic fortified se...
The Colony Hotel in Miami's South Beach is known as the most photographed art deco hotel, which is a 1939 boutique-inspired hotel and has made numerous cameo appearances in scores of movies, TV shows including Dexter. Located at the celebrated block of Ocean Drive and Seventh Street, the hotel is an Art Deco treasure.
The city of Rome, Italy is loaded with ancient monuments as the designation of the city center as a UNESCO World Heritage site attests. Among the Roman Baths, forums, historic markets and the Roman Forum is found the iconic Colosseum. Ancient Rome's magnificent amphitheater, capable of holding more than 50,000 people (the largest ever built in the Roman Empire), was c...
The Egg is the best known landmark in Sant Antoni, located in the centre of the main roundabout at the entrance to the town.
The Egg is a statue erected in the early 1990s to commemorate the local claim of having been the birthplace of Christopher Columbus (there is a similar claim that Hannibal was born in the region). The statue is in the shape of an egg, containin...
Near this spot was the heart of the Comstock Lode, the fabulous 2 1/2 mile deposit of high-grade ore that produced nearly $400,000,000 in silver and gold. After the discovery in 1859, Virginia City boomed for 20 years, helped bring Nevada into the Union in 1864 and helped build San Francisco.
Seven major mines operated during the boom. Their sites today, marked by lar...
The Hotel Connor was built in 1898 and is located on the intersection of Main Street and Jerome Ave.
Along with Jerome Grand Hotel, the Connor Hotel is known for paranormal activity, attracting ghost hunters from around the world.
"The Chinese Coolie" is a 22-foot-tall sculpture of a grizzled man in a conical hat pushing a wheelbarrow. Local dentist Kenneth H. Fox's colossal sculptures are located throughout the town. The statues chronicle Auburn's history, such as a middle-aged Claude Chana gold panning in the nearby American River, and a Chinese "coolie" worker building the Transcontinental R...
As with most industries of the 19th and early 20th century the mining industry relied heavily on the railroads which is true even still today. The local locomotives were numbered and often had “official” names. The little locomotive on display in Clifton next to the Old Jail is the #8 locomotive or “The Copperhead”. The #8 locomotive was used t...
The copse of trees, currently a prominent landmark, was under ten feet (3 m) high in 1863, only visible to a portion of the attacking columns from certain parts of the battlefield. It was used as the target landmark for Pickett's Charge.
The Cotswolds are a range of hills in west-central England, sometimes called the "Heart of England", an area 25 miles (40 km) across and 90 miles (145 km) long. The area has been designated as the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The highest point in the Cotswolds range is Cleeve Hill at 1,083 ft (330 m), 2.5 miles (4 km) to the north of Cheltenham.
The Co...
The National Maritime Museum in Gdańsk (Polish:Narodowe Muzeum Morskie) is a maritime museum in Gdańsk, Poland, established on 1 January 1962. It is dedicated to gathering, researching and preserving artifacts and documents concerning ship transport, international trade, fishing and culture of people working at sea, rivers and those ashore – as well as the disse...
Outside of the Duluth Shipping Canal is a concrete structure known as "The Cribs" or "Uncle Harvey's Mausoleum". The structure was part of a sand and gravel hopper system that was built in the early 1900s and ultimately abandoned. For the more adventurous, it is a structure to swim out to, climb, and either catch some sun or dive off.
This large concrete structure li...
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