 view gallery |   OLDEST -- Bookstore in activity in the World, Lisboa, Portugal
in Superlatives "Established in 1732, Bertrand bookshop, located in Lisbon, Portugal, is the oldest operating bookshop."
N 38° 42.645 W 009° 08.468 posted by:  RuiJSDuarte location: Portugal date approved: 2/28/2014 last visited: never |
 view gallery |  RS - Anaheim, CA
in Letters on Hills RS stands for Radiator Springs. posted by: bluesnote location: California date approved: 2/26/2014 last visited: never |
 view gallery |  Winged Lions - Las Vegas, NV
in Epic Beings and Creatures Winged Lions are not griffins... although they have taken on different forms in different cultures. posted by: Metro2 location: Nevada date approved: 2/26/2014 last visited: 8/18/2013 |
 view gallery | Minerva - Epic Being - York, Great Britain. in Epic Beings and Creatures Minerva the Roman Goddess of Wisdom and Drama. Her sculpture relaxes on a stack of books. Attended by her wise owl, at the corner of High Petergate and Minster Gates, York, Great Britain. posted by: veritas vita location: Northeast England, United Kingdom date approved: 2/26/2014 last visited: never |
 view gallery |  Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts - Kansas City, Mo.
in Satellite Imagery Oddities This is Kansas City's new Performing Arts Center, and from above, looks like two giant metallic snails side by side. posted by: iconions location: Missouri date approved: 2/25/2014 last visited: never |
 view gallery |  Tribute to Gil Vicente - Oeiras, Portugal
in Man-made Devilish Locations "Tribute to Gil Vicente in the form of Auto da Barca do Inferno (Hell´s Boat Auto." posted by: RuiJSDuarte location: Lisboa, Portugal date approved: 2/25/2014 last visited: never |
 view gallery |  Toynbee Tile - W. 56th Street & 5th Avenue - New York, NY
in Toynbee Tiles A newer Toynebee Tile is located on W. 56th Street neear the intersection with 5th Avenue in midtown Manhattan. posted by:  neoc1 location: New York date approved: 2/24/2014 last visited: never |
 view gallery |  Superstition Mountains -- nr Apache Junction AZ
in Vortexes, Mystery Spots, and Gravity Hills The Superstition Mountains are well known as a source of many mysterious energy vortices. posted by: Benchmark Blasterz location: Arizona date approved: 2/21/2014 last visited: 4/5/2014 |
 view gallery | Neptunbrunnen - Weilburg, Hessen, Germany in Epic Beings and Creatures On the marketplace of Weilburg the Fountain of Neptune is located. Neptune was the Roman god of freshwater and the sea in Roman religion. posted by: Eibacher Kuckuck location: Hessen, Germany date approved: 2/21/2014 last visited: 4/14/2014 |
 view gallery | Hercules - St. Petersburg, Russia in Epic Beings and Creatures This sculpture is located in the Hermitage Museum. posted by: Metro2 location: Russia date approved: 2/21/2014 last visited: 8/16/2012 |
 view gallery | Griffin (Vogel Gryff) - Basel, Switzerland in Epic Beings and Creatures A statue of a griffin in its specific local form in the court of the former Carthusian monastery. posted by: fi67 location: Nordwestschweiz (AG/BL/BS), Switzerland date approved: 2/21/2014 last visited: never |
 view gallery | 30 St Mary Axe - London, UK in Satellite Imagery Oddities Known as "The Gherkin" due to its shape 30 St Mary Axe is on of London's iconic buildings. It was designed by Norman Foster and opened in 2004. posted by: Master Mariner location: London, United Kingdom date approved: 2/21/2014 last visited: 12/10/2013 |
 view gallery | Bank of England - Lothbury, London, UK in Satellite Imagery Oddities The Bank of England is located in the City of London and has a museum that opens to the public. posted by: Master Mariner location: London, United Kingdom date approved: 2/21/2014 last visited: never |
 view gallery | FIRST - Iron Furnace West of the Allegheny Mountains - Weirton, West Virginia in Superlatives Historic former iron furnace near Weirton, West Virginia. posted by: BruceS location: West Virginia date approved: 2/20/2014 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Hercules mourning - Thomas Church, Strasbourg in Epic Beings and Creatures This sculpture of Hercules is located in the Protestant Thomas Church in Strasbourg. It depicts Hercules mourning for Count Hermann Moritz of Saxony, a German commander and military thinker in the French service. posted by: Eibacher Kuckuck location: Alsace, France date approved: 2/19/2014 last visited: never |
 view gallery |  Fish Fountain Initiations - Munich, Germany
in Weird Story Locations "To round off their schooling, young apprentice butchers were sheathed in nothing but a sheepskin and a calf’s penis hanging from their necks, spun around three times and thrown into the fountain." posted by: Metro2 location: Bayern, Germany date approved: 2/19/2014 last visited: 11/30/2013 |
 view gallery | Physics Garden - Satellite Oddity - Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. in Satellite Imagery Oddities A real oddity, you don't see many of these Physics gardens from the medieval past. You can easily see the formal pattern from the Satellite. posted by: veritas vita location: South Wales, United Kingdom date approved: 2/18/2014 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Kalø Slotsruin-Denmark. Kalø castle ruin in Satellite Imagery Oddities Kalø Slotsruin er en af vore best bevarede borge fra middelalderen. Kalø castle ruin is one of our best preserved castles from the Mittle Ages. posted by: kallehaugerne location: Denmark date approved: 2/18/2014 last visited: 3/31/2014 |
 view gallery | The Royal Exchange - London, UK in Satellite Imagery Oddities The Royal Exchange sits between Threadneedle Street and Cornhill at the heart of the City of London. The western end of the building overlooks Bank junction where six roads meet. posted by: Master Mariner location: London, United Kingdom date approved: 2/18/2014 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Amazon - Basel, Switzerland in Epic Beings and Creatures A statue of an Amazon by Carl Burckhardt. posted by: fi67 location: Nordwestschweiz (AG/BL/BS), Switzerland date approved: 2/18/2014 last visited: never |
 view gallery |  Pie trowing - Alphen aan den Rijn (NL)
in Guinness World Records World record of 2000 people throwing pies, achieved in 2013. posted by: Axel-F location: Zuid-Holland, Netherlands date approved: 2/18/2014 last visited: never |
 view gallery | BERTRAND Booksellers, LONGEST RUNNING BOOKSHOP - Lisboa, Portugal in Guinness World Records "Established in 1732, Bertrand bookshop, located in Lisbon, Portugal, is the oldest operating bookshop." posted by: RuiJSDuarte location: Lisboa, Portugal date approved: 2/18/2014 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Teufele - Nagold, Germany, BW in Man-made Devilish Locations At the 'Marktstraße' in Nagold, Germany, Baden-Württemberg exists a pub which is called 'Teufele' (Small Devil). posted by: Tante.Hossi location: Baden-Württemberg, Germany date approved: 2/18/2014 last visited: never |
 view gallery |  Virgem da Cortiça - São Marcos da Serra, Portugal
in Urban Legends and Superstitions Accordingly to the legend - quite a modern one - a Saint appeared here in 1999. posted by: Torgut location: Faro, Portugal date approved: 2/17/2014 last visited: never |
 view gallery | BUSIEST -- Container Port in the U.S. - San Pedro, CA in Superlatives The Port of Los Angeles, also known as Los Angeles Harbor, was used during the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games for the sailing competition. Now it is the busiest container port in the country. posted by: bluesnote location: California date approved: 2/17/2014 last visited: never |
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