Beauty and wonders of the world: 35 amazing places and artifacts from all over the planet (36 photos)

Life is full of adventures, you just need a little courage and a drop of curiosity to open the door that leads to real miracles. And for those who are not yet ready to leave their comfort zone, there is a popular Facebook page “Beauties and Wonders of the World”, created by Turkish enthusiast Anatolian Leo. Here, as you might guess from the name, amazing photographs and facts from all over our planet are collected.





1. In the southwest of the Korean Peninsula, in the province of Jeollanam-do, there is a village in which time seems to have stopped: people here live like in the old days, preserving the way of life of their ancestors.



2. Sakya Monastery. The library was discovered in Tibet behind a huge wall (60 meters long and 10 meters high). It contains 84,000 secret manuscripts covering human history over 1,000 years ago.





3. The Japanese have been producing wood for 700 years without cutting down trees. In the 14th century, the extraordinary technique of daisugi originated in Japan. Daisugi stipulates that trees are planted for future generations and are not cut down, but pruned, like giant bonsai trees. If you apply this technique to cedars, you can get a uniform, straight wood without knots, almost ideal for construction.



4. Amazing Changi Airport in Singapore



5. A bridge coming from Sweden turns into an underwater tunnel and rises again to the surface in Denmark. An amazing miracle of engineering unites two countries.



6. “Allegory of the Apennines” is a gigantic statue by Giambologna, a masterpiece of sixteenth-century sculpture, located a few kilometers from Florence in Villa Pratolino.



7. This medieval house, located in the French village of Argentan, was built in 1509.



8. The first photo shows an ancient Greek pelica depicting a female acrobat shooting an arrow with her feet. The artifact dates back to the 4th century BC. The second photo shows an archer-acrobatic at the 2016 World Nomad Games in Kyrgyzstan.



9. Fish pond, mosaic by Gary Drostl



10. Pyramids of Giza



11. Statue of King Arthur in a castle in Cornwall



12. Interior of Mysore Palace, India



13. Castellfollit de la Roca, Spain. This city is built on a basalt rock at an altitude of over 50 meters and extends over 1 kilometer in length.



14. An Argentine farmer found this 20,000-year-old family of giant armadillos (glyptodons) near a river. They were all looking in the same direction, as if they were heading towards something; the largest was the size of a Volkswagen Beetle and they are thought to have weighed around 2 tonnes.



15. Botanical Park of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Founded in 1808, it is considered one of the most important in the world.



16. Ancient city of Petra, Jordan



17. Peoples living in northern regions and harsh snowy climates, such as the Inuit, wore carved sunglasses made of whalebone, horn and ivory to protect their eyes



18. Redhead Festival in Dublin, Ireland



19. A team of archaeologists led by Professor Kutalmysh Gerkay from Ankara University in Turkey discovered three ancient Greek mosaics in the Turkish city of Zeugma, near the border with Syria.



20. The world's oldest surviving carpet, woven approximately 2,500 years ago and found frozen in the Altai Mountains



21. Pietragalla in Basilicata is a city of fantastic “palmenti”. These are cave cellars in the rocks that are still used to store wine.



22. Details of the Column of Marcus Aurelius, 2nd century column in Rome



23. Cemetery in Taiwan



24. Mirror Gallery of the Palace of Versailles, France



25. Royal Portuguese Library in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil



26. 800-year-old packhorse bridge, Lancashire, England



27. The warship Vasa sank on its first voyage to Stockholm in 1628. After 333 years at the bottom of the sea, the impressive warship was restored and was able to continue its journey. Today, the Vasa is the only surviving 17th-century sailing ship and can be admired in a museum specially built for it in Stockholm.



28. Staircase at the Chateau de Chambord in France, created by the great Leonardo da Vinci in 1516



29. Hisashimichi Interchange, built with minimal damage to the environment. This truly impressive masterpiece of engineering is located in Hachioji, near Tokyo, Japan.



30. High in the jungle mountains of Flores Island in Indonesia, at approximately 1,300 meters, stands the ancient, isolated village of Wae Rebo, the last of its kind. The Manggarai people have inhabited it for almost 2000 years.



31. Several years ago, archaeologists excavating the megalithic tomb of Montelirio Tolosa (Spain) discovered an unusual dagger made of rock crystal.



32. 200-year-old wooden bridge in Dagestan, built without a single nail



33. Holy Chapel, a Gothic-style chapel on the Ile de la Cité in Paris, where the kings of France lived until the 14th century.



34. 1500-year-old Ark citadel in Bukhara, Uzbekistan



35. Statue of Medusa (circa 2nd century AD) at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, Italy