North America

Antelope Canyon

Antelope Creek is located on Navajo Nation Land in the northern part of Arizona, just outside Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and close to AZ 98 a few miles east of town. Antelope Canyon is a small but elegantly gorgeous geological formation. It is not a national or state park, and it is often ignored […]

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Panama Canal

The Panama Canal is a major ship canal that traverses the Isthmus of Panama in Central America, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Construction of the canal was one of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken. It has had an enormous impact on shipping between the two oceans, replacing the long and […]

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Teotihuacan

Teotihuacan is the most visited archaeological complex of Mexico. It is located around 30 miles (48 Km) northeast of Mexico City in the municipality of San Juan de Teotihuacan. Within this archaeological complex are some of the largest pyramidal structures of America. The original name of the city was lost in the time as well […]

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Tenochtitlán

Tenochtitlán, the ancient capital of the Aztec Empire, is also known as Temixtitán or Temistitlán. As a powerful city, it had to conquer the surrounding altepetls or Water Mountains with about 500,000 settle man during its peak until 1521, when the Spanish conquers, commanded by Hernán Cortés, got to subjugate it. The city was found […]

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Mexico Downtown

The Historical Center of Mexico, known also as El Centro or Downtown Mexico, currently includes about 1,436 historically important buildings constructed between the 16th and 20th centuries and they are extended over 9 square kilometres and 668 blocks. It is divided in two zones, in order to preserve them, which are the Zone A that […]

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Chapultepec Castle

The Chapultepec Castle, or Castillo de Chapultepec in Spanish, rises on the top of the Chapultepec Hill, where Chapultepec means the grasshopper’s hill in Náhuatl language. It is located in Mexico City, D.F. at a height of 2,325 metres above sea level and used for different purposes from Military Academy, Presidential House, Imperial Residence, and […]

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Belize Barrier Reef

This impressive corals reef is located in the Atlantic Caribbean coast of Belize approximately 300 meters from the coast at the north of the country and around 40 Kilometers from the coast at the south of Belize. The Belize Barrier Reef is part of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System; the Belize’s Barrier covers 260 Kilometers […]

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Calakmul

The Archaeological site of Calakmul is located very deeply in the jungles of Petén Basin, over 1,800,000 acre of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in the State of Campeche, Mexico; into the limits of the municipalities of Champotón and Hopelchén; and 30 kilometres from the Guatemalan border. This preponderant Maya site was the major urban center […]

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Statue Of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty is one of the most renowned symbols of American freedom. It is located on Liberty Island in the middle of the Hudson River in New York City Harbor. The formal name of the statue is "Liberty Enlightening the World" also known affectionately as "Lady Liberty" has become a symbol of freedom […]

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Empire State Building

The Empire State Building located at Fifth Avenue at 34th Street in Manhattan. Ever since it was built, the Empire State Building has captured the attention of young and old alike, every year, millions of tourists flock to the Empire State Building to get a glimpse from its 86th and 102nd floor observatories; the image […]

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Aurora

Aurora are natural colored light displays in the sky which are usually observed in the polar zone at night. They occur in the ionosphere in this way some scientists call them “polar auroras”. The effect is known as the aurora borealis in northern latitudes, “Aurora” is for Roman goddess of dawn and “boreas” is for […]

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Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay onto the Pacific Ocean. As part of both U.S. Route 101 and State Route 1, it connects the city of San Francisco on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula to Marin County. The Golden […]

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CN Tower

The CN Tower is the World's Tallest Building and Free-Standing Structure and has the world's highest public observatory, although it is not considered to be a traditional building. At a height of 553.33m, it is an important telecommunications hub. It is almost twice as tall as the Eiffel Tower and more than three times the […]

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Chichen Itza

The famous Mayan pyramids of Chichen Itza (chee-chehn eet-sah) in Maya literally means: "Mouth of the well of the Itza", the name Chichen Itza is a Mayan word: CHI (mouth), CHEN (well) and ITZA (of the Itza tribe), it is located a 75 miles east of Merida, the Capital of the State of Yucatan, Mexico. […]

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