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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.799999237060547px;">It’s easy to picture pillaging Vikings and scenic fjords when thinking about </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Norway<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.799999237060547px;">.</span></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.799999237060547px;"> This land of the summer midnight sun, however, offers much more than that, including picturesque waterfronts, well-preserved wooden churches and great hiking trails. Quaint medieval towns, filled with modern amenities, are just waiting to be explored. An overview of the </span><br />
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Roros is a good place to learn about copper mining as it occurred a few centuries ago. Copper mining started there in the 17th century and continued for more than 300 years, until 1977. The town has about 2,000 wooden houses that have been preserved in their blackened state, suggesting a medieval look. The town itself was established in 1646 by the Roros Copper Works. Farmlands surround the former mining operation, which include the remains of a smelter. The town is on the Winter Transport Route that used frozen lakes, streams and rivers to move people and goods.</div>
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The Urnes Stavkyrkje, or Urnes Stave Church, blends several architectural styles into a medieval church that is still standing after 900 years. What is remarkable about this church, however, is the building material used: wood, instead of the traditional stone. Located on Norway’s west coast, the church blends Celtic, Viking and Romanesque features in a church that stands majestically in the woods. Urnes is one of 28 stave (wooden) churches in Norway as well as one of the oldest, having been built in the 12th century. Artifacts link pre-Christian Norse culture with medieval Christianity.</div>
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Vøringfossen is Norway’s most famous waterfall, cascading down 180 meters (600 feet) in a series of drops, though it ranks only 83rd on the list of Norway’s highest waterfalls. Vøringfossen is located at Mabodelen, a narrow valley between Oslo and Bergen. Tourists have been visiting Vøringfossen for almost 200 years; a hotel built in 1880 at the top required guests to walk up 1,500 steps to reach their accommodations. The top is easier to reach these days, but the falls aren’t as powerful as they once were because of a hydroelectric plant built upstream.</div>
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While William the Conqueror was busy invading Great Britain in 1066, the Vikings were occupied with building Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim. Nearly 1,000 years later, the cathedral is Norway’s most important church and Scandinavia’s largest medieval building. The cathedral was built to honor Olav, a Viking chieftain who later became a king and a saint. Olav was killed in a battle near Trondheim in 1030; his nephew began constructing the Nidaros Cathedral in 1066 to house his body; it was basically finished in 1090, though enlargements continued until the 1300s. The cathedral soon became an important pilgrimage destination in Norway.</div>
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Nordkapp, or North Cape, is a must for travelers who want to frolic under the midnight sun, since the sun never sets between May 14 and July 29. It is the northernmost point in Europe connected with the international road network. Because it’s in the far north, rising 300 meters (1,000 feet) above the Arctic Ocean, Nordkapp is mainly a summer destination, attracting about 200,000 visitors annually. Nordkapp offers stunning scenic views, with plenty of opportunities to hike under the Arctic sun or see puffin in their native habitat.</div>
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Icy and scenic is perhaps the best way to describe Jostedalsbreen Glacier, the largest glacier in Europe. Situated in southern Norway, the glacier is surrounded by Jostedalsbreen Glacier National Park. Many, many years ago, locals could cross the glacier on foot, perhaps herding animals on their way to market, but this isn’t possible today as the glacier has shrunk significantly. Hiking and glacial skiing is allowed, but sportsmen need to be well prepared as these activities can be dangerous. It is much safer, and just as pretty, to take one of the walking tours around the park.</div>
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Many centuries ago, the Vikings sailed the northern seas, striking fear in the hearts of the region these fierce warriors were about to invade. Today, visitors can view, unafraid, some of these terror-causing vessels as the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo showcases some of these great ninth century ships. The list includes ships from Gokstad, Oseberg and Tune, including two of the best preserved wooden ships in the world from that era. The Oseberg ship is the best preserved and was found in a burial mound on a farm near Oseberg. The museum also displays textiles, tools and household items as well as items found in Viking tombs.</div>
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The Heddal Stave Church is Norway’s largest stave church, with triple naves that stand proudly against the sky. The church, made entirely of wood, was built in the 13th century; according to local legend, it was built in three days by five farmers. After restorations in the 19th and 20th centuries, the church is still in use today for weddings and Sunday services during the summer months. Located in Notodden, the church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary.</div>
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Travelers who get “museumed” out may enjoy a visit to the Bryggen waterfront, an informal museum that doesn’t seem like a museum. Traditional buildings line the waterfront with boats tied just feet away on Bergen’s seaside. The scene is so picturesque, visitors can easily forget Bryggen is linked to Bergen’s importance as a trading center for 400 years during the Middle Ages, when it was part of the Hanseatic League. Today’s traders can shop in trendy boutiques, visit craftsmen’s studios or enjoy a bite to eat down a narrow alleyway.</div>
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The most famous tourist attractions in Norway are probably it fjords. Among the most beautiful of these fjords is Geirangerfjord, located in southwestern Norway near the coastal town of Ålesund. Stretching for more than 15 km (9 miles) long, Geirangerfjord is a natural wonder of deep blue water surrounded by majestic cliffs and lush green mountains towering more than 1,000 meters (3,500 feet) high. Adding to the spectacular scenery are several stunning waterfalls and lush countryside dotted with picturesque farms.</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 17.600000381469727px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Extending around a circular loop within the fortified walls of Paris is an abandoned railway that once connected the city’s five main lines. Completed in 1852, the Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture has been partially abandoned since 1934 and completely silent for the last few years. The tracks and several stations remain intact, though its future is the subject of ongoing debate.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; text-align: center;">Meaning “Little Belt Railway”, the Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture was conceived in 1848 as a means of transporting and dispersing troops swifty around the city’s major fortifications. At a time of revolution in France and across Europe, the military became increasingly reliant on the expanding railway network.</span><br />
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Right in the middle of a small forest near Chatillon, a little village in Southern Belgium, is a graveyard of abandoned and beautiful rusty cars. These cars once belonged to US soldiers who were stationed in this region. It’s not known how they managed to acquire these beauties in the middle of the war. When the World War II ended, all military troops were sent back to the US, but the cost of having all those cars shipped was way too expensive. The ranking officers decided to leave all the cars in Belgium. The cars were driven up a hill, one by one, nicely parked and somehow hidden from the outside world.</div>
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Once back home in the US, the soldiers who wanted to retrieve their car had to take personal responsibility for all costs of the shipping. Not a single car was retrieved.</div>
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At one point there were four car graveyards around Chatillon, and as many as 500 vehicles. Only one remain today. Over time, corrosion and decay have worn down the vehicles and what little remained were stolen by the locals and car collectors.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Craco</b> is a ghost town and <i>comune</i> in the Province of Matera, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The old town was abandoned due to natural disasters. The abandonment has made Craco a tourist attraction and a popular filming location. In 2010, Craco has been included in the watch list of the World Monuments Fund.</span><br />
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<b>Lake Toplitz</b> (German: <i>Toplitzsee</i>) is a lake situated in a dense mountain forest high up in the Austrian Alps, 98 km (61 mi) from Salzburg in western Austria. It is surrounded by cliffs and forests in the Salzkammergut lake district, within the Totes Gebirge (dead mountains). The Toplitzsee water contains no oxygen below a depth of 20m. Fish can survive only in the top 18m, as the water below 20m is salty, although bacteria and worms have been found below 20m that can live without oxygen.</div>
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During 1943-44, the shore of Lake Toplitz served as a Nazi naval testing station. Using copper diaphragms, scientists experimented with different explosives, detonating up to 4,000 kg charges at various depths. They also fired torpedoes from a launching pad in the lake into the Tote Mountains, producing vast holes in the canyon walls. Millions of counterfeit pound sterling notes (£100+ million) were dumped in the lake after Operation Bernhard, which was never fully put into action. There is speculation that there might be other valuables to be recovered from the bottom of the Toplitzsee. The speculation is due to there being a layer of sunken logs floating half way to the bottom of the lake, making diving beyond it hazardous or impossible. Gerhard Zauner, one of the divers on the 1959 expedition reports that he saw a sunken aircraft below this layer.</div>
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The area is accessible only on foot by a mile-long path, as the K-Mautner-Weg is a private road that serves the Fisherman's Hut restaurant at the western end.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Curon in the tri-border region Italy-Austria-Switzerland comprises the Lago di Resia, Lago di S. Valentino and the Vallelunga valley.</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The steeple that soars from the waters of the Lago di Resia is considered the symbol of the upper Val Venosta. However, the municipality of Curon has got much more to offer than Lake Resia and Lago di S. Valentino farther south.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In summer this area is particularly popular with those who love cycling as the Via Claudia Augusta is one of the most frequented cycle tracks of Europe, stretching down towards Merano. If you love mountaineering, we recommend you the Vallelunga and the Val Roja, where hiking trails and Alpine routes stretch up the three-thousanderes at the border to Switzerland. This is also where the famous Palla Bianca glacier is located.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also in winter Curon in Alta Val Venosta is worth a visit. With Maseben, Belpiano and Malga S. Valentino, the municipality offers three skiing areas and is in part also connected to Nauders farther north. Not yet satisfied? Ice sailing, snow kiting, ice surfing at Lago Resia and a horse-drawn sleigh ride across the fariytale winter landscape make your holidays in Alta Val Venosta a special experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">The Kerry Way was first proposed in 1982 and developed by members of the Laune Mountaineering Club and the Kerry association of </span>An Taisce<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">, under the chairmanship of Seán O Súilleabháin.</span><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> O Suilleabháin was inspired by a history lecture he had attended given by Father John Hayes on the subject of old roads and paths in the southwest of Ireland.</span><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> Realising that "there was a spider's web-like network of roads and paths that could be combined to form a route around Kerry", he began devising the trail that would become the Kerry Way.</span><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> The first section – from Killarney to </span>Glenbeigh<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> – was opened by </span>Tánaiste<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> </span>Dick Spring<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> in 1985.</span><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> It was the second long-distance trail to be opened in the Republic of Ireland, after the</span>Wicklow Way<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">.</span><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> The full route was completed in 1989 and opened by </span>Frank Fahey<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">, T. D., </span>Minister of State<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> for Youth and Sport.</span><span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> The trail was constructed by workers on </span>FÁS<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> social employment schemes at a cost of </span>IEP<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> £60,000 and involved the provision of over 200 stiles and six footbridges as well as waymarkers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.600000381469727px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Japan’s abandoned theme park Gulliver’s Kingdom “…was located between Aokigarah and Kamikuishiki, two areas that have some of the most disturbing reputations in all of Japan. Aokigarah is better known to Westerners as “the suicide forest,” where around 100 people take their lives every year and annual searches are necessary to clear the area of all the corpses. Kamikuishiki was home to the Aum Shinriyko doomsday cult that was responsible for the 1995 Sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo subway that left 13 people dead. Aside from the ghastly reputation of Kamikuishiki, the village was plagued with the residual smell of the cult’s nerve gas factory  for up to five years after the factories were closed up—and the smell wafted all the way over to Gulliver’s Kingdom.” —Neatorama</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">Angkor Wat</b><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> (</span>Khmer<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">) was first a </span>Hindu<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">, then subsequently a </span>Buddhist<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">, temple complex in </span>Cambodia<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> and the largest religious monument in the world. The temple was built by the </span>Khmer<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> King </span>Suryavarman II<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> in the early 12th century in </span>Yaśodharapura<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> (</span>Khmer<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">: </span><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">present-day </span>Angkor<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">), the capital of the </span>Khmer Empire<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">, as his state temple and eventual mausoleum. Breaking from the </span>Shaiva<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> tradition of previous kings, Angkor Wat was instead dedicated to </span>Vishnu<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">. As the best-preserved temple at the site, it is the only one to have remained a significant religious center since its foundation. The temple is at the top of the high classical style of </span>Khmer architecture<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">. It has become a symbol of </span>Cambodia<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">,</span><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> appearing on </span>its national flag<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">, and it is the country's prime attraction for visitors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">16. 1984 Winter Olympics bobsleigh track in Sarajevo</span></h4>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">17. Hashima Island, Japan</span></h4>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">18. Sunken yacht in Antarctica</span></h4>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">19. Hafodunos Hall in Llangernyw, North Wales</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">Hafodunos Hall</b><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> is a </span>Gothic revival<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> house located near the village of </span>Llangernyw<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> in </span>Wales<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">. Designed by </span>Sir George Gilbert Scott<span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">, it was built between 1861 and 1866 for Henry Robertson Sandbach, replacing a house that had been built in 1674.</span></span></div>
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