Greater Blue Mountains Area is a World Heritage Site in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. Spread across eight adjacent conservation reserves, it constitutes one of the largest and most intact tracts of protected bush land in Australia. It also supports an exceptional representation of the taxonomic, physiognomic and ecological diversity that ..
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Shark Bay is a World Heritage Site in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. Inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1991, the site covers an area of 2,200,902 hectares (5,438,550 acres), of which about 70 per cent are marine waters. It includes many protected areas and conservation reserves, including Shark Bay Marine Park, ..
Meridian Highway Bridge is a bridge that formerly carried U.S. Route 81 across the Missouri River between Nebraska and South Dakota. It was the last link of the Meridian Highway, which became U.S. Route 81, to be completed. It was designed for use by trains on the lower level of the bridge and vehicular ..
Lord Howe Island is an irregularly crescent-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, 600 kilometres directly east of mainland Port Macquarie, and about 900 kilometres from Norfolk Island. The first reported sighting of Lord Howe Island was on the 17th of February 1788 when Lieutenant Henry Lidgbird Ball, commander ..
Vatican Museums are the museums of the Vatican City which are located within the city’s boundaries. Pope Julius II sent Giuliano da Sangallo and Michelangelo Buonarroti, who were working at the Vatican, to examine the discovery. On their recommendation, the pope immediately purchased the sculpture from the vineyard owner. The museum consists of a ..
Osterley Park is a mansion set in a large park of the same name. It was one of a group of large houses close to London which served as country retreats for wealthy families, but was not true country houses on large agricultural estates. The house is of red brick with white stone details ..
Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Greater London, in the historic county of Middlesex, and within the postal town East Molesey, Surrey; it has not been inhabited by the British Royal Family since the 18th century. Today, the palace is open to the public, and ..
Ham House is situated beside the River Thames in Ham, south of Richmond in London. The house was built in 1610 by Sir Thomas Vavasour, Knight Marshal to James I. It originally comprised an H-plan layout consisting of nine bays and three storeys. The Thames-side location was ideal for Vavasour, allowing him to move ..
Eltham Palace is a large house in Eltham, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich, South East London, England. It is an unoccupied royal residence and owned by the Crown Estate. According to one account the incident which inspired Edward III’s foundation of the Order of the Garter took place here. As the favourite palace ..
Anne Frank House is a historic house and biographical museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank. The museum opened on the 3rd of May 1960. It preserves the hiding place, has a permanent exhibition on the life and times of Anne Frank, and has an exhibition space about all forms of persecution and discrimination. ..