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Lombard Street

Lombard Street is a street located in the east-west in San Francisco, California. This road is very famous over there even in the world, because it claimed to be the most tortuous street in the world, which consists of 8 corner steep. So that this road can become a new tourist attractions and challenging for you.

Dingmans Falls

Dingmans Falls is one of the most beautiful waterfalls in the world. The waterfall is located in Dingmans Ferry in Delaware Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania, United States close to Silverthread Falls. This waterfall has a vertical drop of 39.6 m (130 ft). So if you came to visit this place, then you will get a double benefit, because you also get to watch Silverthread Falls is no less beautiful.

Fulmer waterfall

Fulmer waterfall is one of the best waterfalls are beautiful dab in the United States, including in the world. The waterfall is located is located at Place George W. Recreation Childs in Dingmans Ferry, Pike County, Pennsylvania, United States.

This waterfall is under Factory Falls and Deer Leap on the River in Dingmans Falls, with a height of 17 meters (55 feet). This waterfall can be reached from Childs Park Road, West Lake Road (State Route 2004), 2.6 kilometers north of Pennsylvania Route 739.

Burney Falls

Burney Falls is a waterfall that goes into one of the most beautiful waterfalls in the world. This waterfall is located in the Burney Creek, Burney Falls in McArthur-Memorial State Park, Shasta County, California.

Burney Falls comes from underground springs up and down, which tingginya129 feet, and provides a nearly constant flow rate of 100 million U.S. gallons per day (4 m³ / s). Fall called "The Eighth World Wonder" by President Theodore Roosevelt, and declared National Natural Landmark in December 1984.

Alamere Falls

Alamere Falls is one of the most beautiful waterfalls and world famous. This waterfall is located in Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, California. Alamere Falls is a "tidefall" rare, because this waterfall flows spilled directly into the sea.

If you have arrived here, then you will not feel regret because you will enjoy beautiful coastal scenery, wild flowers (in Spring), rubber trees, and even a beautiful lake.

McWay Falls

McWay Falls is included in one of the most beautiful waterfalls in the world, and this waterfall is one of the two in an area close enough to the sea to be called "tidefalls". The waterfall is situated at the foot of 80 Julia Pfeiffer State Park, which flows throughout the year.

To be able to reach the waterfall, then we can use the boat, because although it can be seen via the trail from the top, a beautiful beach and bay below is difficult to access by land.

Centralia - Hell Town

Centralia is a ghost town and the region in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States, and part of the Bloomsburg-Berwick micropolitan area. Its population has shrunk from more than 1,000 residents in 1981 to 12 in 2005, nine in 2007, and 10 in 2010, as a result of the mine fire burning under the borough since 1962.

Only indication of fire, which underlies about 400 acres (1.6 km ²) spread over four areas, low round metal steam vents in the south of the borough and several signs warning of underground fire, unstable ground, and carbon monoxide. Additional smoke and steam can be seen coming from the abandoned Pennsylvania, Route 61 area just behind the hilltop cemetery, and other cracks in the ground are scattered around the area. Very few houses remained standing in Centralia, mostly abandoned buildings have been destroyed by man or nature.

Fountains of Bellagio

World tourism will discuss about the Fountains of Bellagio. Fountains of Bellagio is a hotel casino located in Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The hotel has 3015 rooms, 36 floors with a height of 508 ft or 151 m by 935 occupied rooms to visitors. There are spa tower that stands in the south of the main tower. Bellagio was built with the enormous cost of U.S. $ 1.6 billion. Bellagio first opened on October 15, 1988 with the opening upacra a cost of U.S. $ 88 million.

Fountains of Bellagio fountain show has the attraction that is very charming. Fountain show takes place in front of the Bellagio Hotel is strategically so as to spoil the eyes of many people who enjoy it. The fountain show accompanied by music in them "Viva Las Vegas", "Luck Be Lady", and "My Heart Will Go On". Estimated to cost around $ 40 to build this fountain.

Four types of nozzles are in use in the performance of this fountain are:

*Rower - jet with a range of motion of the ball

*Shooters - the shot over water

*Super Shooters - Send a water blast as high as 240 ft (73 m) in the air.

*Extreme Shooters - Send a water blast as high as 460 feet (140 m) (added in 2005)

Morning Glory

Morning Glory is a tourist attraction Outdoor hot water in the Upper Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park in the pool this States.Tempat States was named by Mrs. EN McGowan, wife of Assistant Park Superintendent, Charles McGowan in 1883. He called it "Convolutus", the Latin name for morning glory flower that resembles a spring.
Attractions are also known as the Swimming Thousand Faces because the color is diverse and beautiful appearance, there are green, orange, yellow, blue, and brown copper.

Two of the uniqueness of the Morning Glory Pool water contained in a different color and also the process of formation of a pool of hot water. These hot tubs have a different color. Factors that cause discoloration is due to a number of bacteria that live in water. Glory Pool itself is formed by the earthquake that erupted to come out as hot springs. As a result of decreasing temperature, the bacteria began to go in and change the color blue to yellow, orange and brown copper. Initially, the bacteria exist only in the pool (yellow and orange) but along with the decreasing temperature, the bacteria begin pushed into to the middle. However, the original hot tub was dominated brilliant blue color. But then changed to some color because human activity, namely, the visitors who throw money coin, stone, wood and even garbage.

Statue of Liberty

Statue of Liberty is a gigantic statue which is located on Liberty Island, at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor, the United States. The name of this statue is actually "Liberty Enlightening the World" or the Liberty which illuminates the world. The statue was awarded France to the United States in the late 19 th century and is a symbol of welcome to visitors, immigrants and returning Americans.

The statue was given on October 28, 1886 This is a gift one hundred years of independence the United States and is an expression of friendship between the two countries. Sculptor was Frederic Auguste Bartholdi and Gustave Eiffel (designer of the Eiffel Tower) devised a support structure therein. Statue of Liberty is one of the most famous symbol of the U.S. throughout the world, and symbolizes independence and freedom from oppression.

The statue was depicted as a woman who was freed from the shackles of tyranny with the right hand holding a torch with a flame that burns, it symbolizes freedom. While his left hand holding a book with the inscription "July 4, 1776" (in Roman numerals), the American independence day. She wore a flowing robe. As well as having seven shadow of big spikes on her crown symbolize the seven oceans and continents Statue of Liberty has a height of less leih 46 m (151 ft). If counted from the base, this statue has a height to 93 m (305 ft). Sculpture layer is made of sheet copper with a thickness of 2.4 mm wrought (0.01 in) are mounted on iron frames.

And on the 1984 Statue of Liberty on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Amazon Rainforest

Amazon Rainforest is also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle is a moist broadleaf forests that covered most of the Amazon Basin of South America. Amazon represents over half the planet's remaining rain forests, and it consists of the channel's largest and most species-rich tropical rain forest in the world.

This watershed covers seven million square kilometers (1.7 billion acres), a five and a half million square kilometers (1.4 billion acres) of protected rainforest. Tergolonbg forest This forest is very large, because to cover the region's nine states. And contained the majority of forests in Brazil, with 60% of the rainforest, followed by Peru with 13%, and with a small amount in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French (French Guiana).
Forest is also known for having animals that are categorized as violent and savage.

Amazon rain forest was elected in 2008 as a candidate for one of the New7Wonders of Nature by the Seven New Wonders of the World Foundation.

SWAMP Manchac

Manchac SWAMP is one of the sights including the extreme categories and creepy. This site is becoming a favorite among lovers of gothic nuance.
Here there is a tree with human-like form of swamps, seen at night. And it would be scarier if you travel at night, because these nuances is then no wonder then an adventure tour company called Old River Plantation Adventure to provide package tours through the wetlands, both day and night. But be careful if you want to spend the night in the swamp. Because the crocodiles that live in them could be lurking.

Truk Lagoon

Truk Lagoon is also known as Chuuk is a charming tourist attractions and thrilling at the same time for divers. This place is situated in the middle of the sea at 7 degrees north latitude, northern New Guinea. In this place there are shipwrecks rest of Japan's World War II. Like the shipwreck, when divers entered the vessel, will be found so many soldiers items such as gas masks, glasses, and clothing.

This area consists of 11 large islands (corresponding to 11 cities from Truk lagoon, a Toll, Udot, Fala-Beguets, Missal, and the EOT of Faichuk group, and Moen, Fefan, Dublon, Uman, Param, and Tsis from Namoneas group) and 46 are smaller in the lagoon, plus 41 on the fringing reef, and is known today as the islands of Chuuk, part of the American Federation of Micronesia in the Pacific Ocean.

And on April 12, 2011, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Program "Foreign Correspondent" filtered reports of Chuuk Lagoon likening the effects of major releases will come from the tens of thousands of tons of oil from Japanese warships rusted into coral reefs of the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska. The ship is classified as a Japanese war grave, which requires the involvement of Japanese government at the end of the clean-up.