Europe

Karl Marx-Hof, also called Karl Marx Courtyard, is one of the best-known public residential complexes. This world’s longest residential building is located in Heiligenstadt, a neighborhood of the 19th district of Vienna, Austria. It is built on land that, until the twelfth century, had been under the waters of the Danube. It was so deep that it was possible for …

Glastonbury is a small town in Somerset located in the south of England. It is famous for many legends and myths throughout the history. The name of Glastonbury Abbey holds immense importance in the line of early legends of Britain. Over time, the abbey has become the nucleus of Britain’s legends largely because of its pivotal role in the development …

Bora Bora is an island which is included in the Leeward group of French Polynesia, which is located in France in the Pacific Ocean. It is located over 230 kilometers northwest of Papeete. In ancient times the island was called “Pora pora mai te pora”, meaning “created by the gods” in the local Tahitian dialect. The amazing thing about the …

In central Greece, on the north-western edge of the Plain of Thessaly, gigantic rocks rise to form a spectacular stone forest. They are called Meteora where ‘meteor’ means hanging in the sky and ‘ora’ means mountain. The formation of the cones and rocks has always fascinated geologists and historians all over the world. Geologists believe that the spires of stones …

A small area of a crooked forest (known locally as Krzywy Las) near Gryfino in West Pomerania, Poland is a host to 400 pine trees having the trunks bent at 90 degrees in the base. All of them are bent towards the North. These actually are surrounded by a large forest having pine trees that are growing straight. This crooked …