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Palazzo

Palazzo is a luxury hotel and resort casinos are very famous all over the world. Hotel is located between the Wynn and The Venetian in Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, a suburb of Las Vegas, a luxury building with first class construction, and reportedly became the world's sixth largest building in terms of available floor space and is also currently the largest building second in the Western Hemisphere. Building area is about - reaching about 645.581 m². The Palazzo Silver LEED certified the largest LEED-certified buildings in the country.

Part of the resort opened to the general public on December 30, 2007. The official opening took place on January 17, 2008. And in its first year, the Palazzo was awarded the AAA Five Diamond for the year 2009.
Hotel and casino are part of a larger complex consisting of an adjoining Venetian Hotel and Casino and the Sands Convention Center, all owned and operated by Las Vegas Sands Corporation.

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The Pentagon

The Pentagon is the military headquarters and the defense of the United States Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia, USA. Here there are a lot of weapons and various military technologies of the United States. The building was dedicated on January 15, 1943, and was designed by American architect George Bergstrom.

The Pentagon has a very unusual area, making this building as one of the largest buildings in the world, with about 23,000 military and civilian employees and about 3,000 non-defense personnel. The Pentagon has a total area of ​​all buildings reached 610.000 m².

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K-25

K-25 is a center of uranium production and research that uses gaseous diffusion method belongs to the united states in rural Tennessee. This place is situated in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, at the southwestern tip of the Oak Ridge Reservation, USA.
The name "K-25" is a combination of "K" from Kellex Corporation, the initial contractor factory, and World War II-era code name for uranium-235.

Building area of ​​609,000 m² was built in June 1943 and completed in early 1945, with a cost up to 512 million dollars. And this building is one of the largest buildings in the world.

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Extraordinary home wrapped Newspapers

Extraordinary home wrapped Newspapers. This house is a house that is different from being one of the tourist center of attention when in Massachusetts, USA. The house has 88-year-old has become remarkable because the entire house and its contents covered with old newspapers. Total whole house and its contents will require 100,000 rolls of paper. And newspapers are glued using water, flour, and apple skin. The house was built in 1922 by electrical engineer named sekorang Stemnan Elis.

So whether you want to feel the beauty and uniqueness of this house immediately ???.... then I suggest you to come to the house.



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James Dalton Highway / Dalton Highway

James Dalton Highway / Dalton Highway is a road which is very famous, because it is one of the most dangerous road in the world. This road is a gravel road along the 414 miles, which headed straight to the north of the intersection of Elliott Highway Livengood, through the Arctic tundra to the north end, furthest in Alaska. The road was built in 1974 with $ 150 million cost of this work as a supply road to support the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System.

This is resulting in this street into the danger is that this path is not so great but traffic is becoming a big tractor and tractor-trailer trucks carrying oil. And an estimated 160 trucks per day in the summer months and 250 trucks per day in winter. So the threat was posed by the dust produced trucks and roads, mud and rocks flying who hit the windshield, making it very disturbing scene you to drive.
So if you want to pass this way then I suggest you think twice or you have to really prepare for it all with remarkable.


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North Yungas Road

North Yungas Road is a road that is very popular both in his country and the world. This road is very well known because the location is really very dangerous, so do not be surprised if the road is named as a Way of Death. Along the road along the 61 to 69 km that leads from La Paz to Coroico is located in the capital of Bolivia, the Amazon region in the Yungas, Bolivia. And in 1995 the Inter-American Development Bank named as the "world's most dangerous road. It is estimated that 200-300 of this road crossers have died because of accidents here. Therefore there are many along the road crosses, it denotes those who have died in there, because the vehicle rolled into a ravine.

The road was built in 1930 during the Chaco War by Paraguayan prisoners. And on July 24, 1983, there was a big crash and the worst in its history, a bus veered from the Yungas Road and into the ravine, killing more than 100 people on board.
But although it has been known for its horror, it was this way even become a popular tourist destination starting in the 1990s, drawing some 25,000 fans Thrillseekers mountain biking in particular has made a favorite destination for downhill biking is.

In late 2006, after 20 years of manufacture, was officially opened to the public jebuah new road from La Paz to Coroico. The new route is more modern and many other elements that make it more secure than the original route.

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Lake Crescent

Lake Crescent is a beautiful lake and one of the famous lakes in the country. The lake is located within Olympic National Park in Clallam County, Washington, United States. These lakes including the famous lake in the country, because in addition to a beautiful place, this lake is officially the second deepest lake in Washington, ie at a maximum depth of 624 meters of the official (190 m).
Lake Crescent is known for its lake color yng clear and blue. This is because the lack of nitrogen in water which inhibits the growth of algae.


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Loch Ness

Loch Ness is a large freshwater lake and deep, and is estimated to hold more fresh water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined. Loch Ness is located in the Scottish Highlands, and the surface is 15.8 m (52 feet) above sea level. Loch Ness is Scotland's second largest lake with a surface area on 56.4 km2 (21.8 sq mi) after Loch Lomond.


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Diego de la Haya crater

Diego de la Haya crater is a lake that fills one of the 5 main crater 11,260 feet high on Mount Irazú. This lake has been known for changing the color of the usual green to gray, pink, or red depending on the type of gases released by volcanic activity inside the mountain.



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Lechuguilla Cave

Lechuguilla Cave is a cave that is very famous. This cave is located in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico, USA. And according to the news that there, in June 2011, this cave is the sixth longest cave in the world (130.24 miles (210 km)), and is the deepest in the continental United States (1604 feet (489 m)). And until now this cave into a tourist attraction that is often visited by local and foreign tourists.


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Royal Gorge Bridge

Royal Gorge Bridge is one of the world-famous bridge. This bridge into a tourist attraction in the vicinity of Canon City, Colorado, USA. This bridge once held the record as the highest bridge in the world from 1929 to 2003, but was defeated by 2003 Beipanjiang River Bridge in China. This bridge has a height of about 1260 feet (384 m) wide and 18 feet (5.5 m). Furthermore, Royal Gorge Bridge is also notable for being one of the best places in the world Bungee Jumping.





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Caddo Lake

Caddo Lake is a lake that looks like a swamp that will make you stunned. Because of this lake is not completely submerged, so the plant here is not so dead and so alive. This lake looks terrible but it also looks incredible beauty. This lake has an area of ​​approximately 25,400 hectares (10,300 acres) of wetlands and is located on the border between Texas and Louisiana, in the north and south of Harrison County Marion County in Texas and western Caddo Parish in Louisiana.


This lake is a protected wetland under the international RAMSAR agreement and features the world's largest cypress forest. Caddo is one of the few Texas' non-natural oxbow lake and is the second largest in the South, but was artificially altered by the addition of a dam in 1900. Here are some of the habitat of living creatures, including the southeastern United States conifers, cypress trees growing in moist habitats, and some individuals can live for more than 1,000 tahun.Baldcypresses, which thrive in marshy habitats. Caddo and according to legend, this lake was formed by the 1812 New Madrid Earthquake, but according to most geologists have now examined it, felt that Caddo Lake was formed in stages rather than simultaneously.


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Salar de Uyuni

Salar de Uyuni is a salt lake which is very unusual, because this lake is the largest salt lake in the world, approximately 10 582 km2. Salar de Uyuni is located in the Department of Potosi and Oruro, near the crest of the Andes, south-eastern Bolivia. And expected, Salar de Uyuni contains 10 billion tons of salt, and less than about 25,000 tons of salt is obtained each year.


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Luray Caverns/Luray Cave

Luray Caverns/Luray Cave is a cave that was in the area west of Luray, Virginia, USA. These places attract many visitors, especially if you are a true nature lover. This place was found in 1878. Luray Caverns is decorated with speleothems (columns, mud flows, stalactites, stalagmites, Flowstone, mirror pond, etc.). So you can enjoy its beauty as well as possible. And this place is also included in the stunning underground lake in the world.




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Pan-American Road - The Longest Road in The World

Pan-American Road is a road network is about 47,958 kilometers (29,800 miles) total length that connects the mainland countries of the Americas, which is exactly 15 countries including the united states, canada, mexico, peru, argentina and elsalvador. And this street has its own privileges, as claimed by Guinness World Records, the Pan-American Highway in the world's longest "motorable road". However, because the Darien Gap, it is not possible to cross between South America and Central America by traditional motor vehicles.




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