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Sightseeing placemarks that don't fit into any of the other sightseeing categories. |
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 | Ministry of Sound Dance Club in Taipei
official site:www.mos-taipei.com |  | 12/02/2007 | 76 | 
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 | A former "Special Ammunition" site, closed in 1989. You can see the remains of the storage bunkers and also two of the watchtowers. | | 12/01/2007 | 252 |
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 | Sunset Drive-in, Colchester, Vermont
Very few drive-ins are still operating in the states. This one is in Colchester, Vermont. | | 11/30/2007 | 132 |
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 | Wind Turbine Blade awaiting delivery at a German airfield | | 11/28/2007 | 115 |
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 | Antarctic Radio Relay station on Half Moon Island | | 11/28/2007 | 235 |
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 | A Small Antarctic base on Greenwich Island | | 11/28/2007 | 181 |
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 | The Antarctic Station where the passengers of the Explorer were taken after the ship hit an iceberg and sank on 23 November 2007 | | 11/28/2007 | 129 |
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 | Large cracks in a frosen lake in China |  | 11/24/2007 | 204 |
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 | What the title says..trash..in higher then usual resolution. |  | 11/23/2007 | 446 |
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 | A British construction site in high-res. | | 11/23/2007 | 149 |
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 | Huge Golf Ball near Magadan, Russia |  | 11/21/2007 | 859 |
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 | A tall copper smelter stack dominates the Port Kembla skyline. When the old copper smelter closed a few years ago, the local community breathed a sigh of relief. Bad practices, including the smelting of scrap copper, plastic coatings and all, had meant that the emissions from the stack were particularly noxious. Residents had suffered the health effects for years but because it is a working cla... | | 11/04/2007 | 84 |
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 | The world’s largest tethered helium balloon designed in France. Launched in April this year, it took 40 people, 12 hours and 6,500 cubic metres of helium for the balloon to fully inflate. It can take up to 29 passengers and drifts upwards to a height of 150m (40 storeys) to unfold a breath-taking 360 degree panoramic view of the city.
http://www.visitsingapore.com/publish/stbport... |  | 11/04/2007 | 127 |
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 | Drydocks, two occupied, at Pendennis shipyard, Falmouth | | 11/02/2007 | 175 |
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 | Full size working model of a Trebuchet, a medieaval slingshot, at Warwick castle | | 11/01/2007 | 165 |
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 | Wineyard at Halfpenny Green, Shropshire, Home of Europes most Northerly Red Wine. | | 10/28/2007 | 97 |
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 | Organized by Q-Dance every year, a 16 hours Houseparty
Bunkers, ammunition depots and a huge hangar on a derelict army base, just over the German border, Q-BASE festival.
Open doors at 4 in the afternoon til 8 the next morning.
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 | On a cemetery in Las vegas you see ga grave being digged You clearly see the hole and the excavator. | | 10/28/2007 | 192 |
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 | A landmark Kappelns is the herring fence. The Kappelner herring fence is the only still functioning herring fence in completely Europe. Its age becomes estimated on over 500 years. The herring time around the Osterfeiertage mad itself the herrings in the fence and can become so simply imprisoned. The suitable city celebration in addition is called completely fitting herring days and always take... |  | 10/25/2007 | 126 |
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 | On the 17. November 1990, a forty-foot sperm whale got stranded om the beach near Nymindegab. The dead whale, weighing in at 25 tons, was such a tourist attraction that it was talked of as far away as Copenhagen, and scientist from the Zoological Museum there decided to have a closer look at the big fish. After the whale had been dissected, the skeleton was transported to Copenhagen, where it w... | | 10/21/2007 | 136 |
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 | Of the 20 ovens that were built in the beginning of the 1900s, the two tar ovens in Hesselvig Plantage are the only to be restored. They have been brought back to their original state to show the production of charcoal and wood tar and, at the same time, they present a part of the period?s culture history. The ovens were operated from about 1910 and up to the years after the Second World War. T... | | 10/21/2007 | 102 |
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 | In the little village of Juvre a fence made of whalejaws stands.
It was build in 1772 at the time when a lot of sailors on the island Romo were whalers and took part in the whaning around Greenland.
At that time stones and wood weren't available so they had to use other, unusual, materials. Whalebones.
The fence is preserved and under protection of the Danish Nation... | | 10/18/2007 | 243 |
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 | In a once-lost forest in Africa, six animal species new to science have been discovered, members of a two-month expedition now reveal, including a bat, a rodent, two shrews and two frogs.
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 | The defense line of Antwerp consists of 30 fortifications in two rings around the city. This defenceline to defend the city, was build between 1859 and 1914. Together they form a 95 kilometer wide ring around Antwerp. |  | 10/17/2007 | 524 |
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 | This is the Defense line of Amsterdam (in Dutch named Stelling van Amsterdam) is a 135 km long ring of fortifications around Amsterdam, consisting of 42 forts located between 10 to 15 kilometers the centre. | | 10/11/2007 | 302 |
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