Egypt is probably the only country in the world that everyone should see at least once in a lifetime. That's at least for two reasons: the pyramids, specifically the pyramids of Giza, the only survivor of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and the Nile, the place where one of the first civilizations of the world has developed.    In 430Ihr Herodotus was overwhelmed with fear and awe seeing the magnificent monuments in Egypt, the majority o...

    A large pre-Columbian archaeological site built by the Maya civilization, Chichen Itza is located in the north-center of the Yucatan peninsula, in Yucatan State, Mexico.    At the end of the nineteenth century archaeologist Edward Herbert Thompson discovered in northern Mexican Yucatan Peninsula, a ruined town covered with vegetation. Chichen Itza is the name of pre-Columbian settlement, meaning "wells in Itza 'Maya language. The ruins found...

The most famous of all the ruins, seems to be suspended between two mountains and is often lost in the fog. It can be seen below the Urubamba Valley and is an enchanting place, especially since the Incas had not heard of the "wheel" when they built it. Machu Picchu was built in the mid-fifteenth century, but since its existence was not recorded by the Spanish conquerors, who occupied the place in 1530, nobody knows really what was the purpose of its construction. Many of the ruins i...

   Nazca desert is a plateau of about 100 km long and 8 km wide, on the coast of Peru, 400 km south of Lima. Sometime before the year 1000 BC, the Nazca Valley was inhabited by a population that has developed advanced methods of animal husbandry, which enabled its members to conduct an irrigation system, to improve their crops and territorial extension to farmers. Throughout the 1,500 years that followed, these people have become masters artisans in weaving, pottery, architectu...

  Antarctica is the only continent where there doesn't live on the long term any member of the species on two legs. It is a very large area (14 million km2), larger even than Europe (~ 10 million km2). It is also a land of no one. Following the Antarctic Treaty, signed in 1959, the territory south of latitude 60 in the southern hemisphere is open to scientific research and any military activity is prohibited there.     Virtually, no c...

    Stonehenge is probably the most important prehistoric monument in England. Nobody knows exactly when it was built and by whom. Not a single building, but was done in several stages. A theory advanced enough known if it would be built by Druids, a population living in England before winning Romanian. But modern archaeological techniques have shown that Stonehenge was built at least 1,000 years before the Druids in IC 2950, reaching the form we know today in the year 1600 BC....

  Bermuda Triangle (also known as the the Devil's Triangle) is a triangular area bounded Atlantic ends by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico. Legend has it that many people, boats and planes have mysteriously disappeared in this area. How many have disappeared, however, depend on who is doing the locating and counting. Triangle size varies from 500,000 square miles to three times more depending on the author's imagination. (Some include the Azores, the Gulf of Mexico and West Indies in ...

  In Xinjiang, China there is a desert called Moguicheng or devil's town. Castles at Moguicheng produce strange sounds and nobody knows how it is possible that. If you get there on a hot day, besides the gentle breeze of air, you hear a noise that resembled the 10 million or 10 milionae bells that play the guitar very gentle a beautiful song....

  Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, is one of the most remote places in the world and which houses about 4,000 residents. Two-thirds of whom are indigenous, the remainder coming from the mainland. Virtually all the population lives in one settlement of the island - Hanga Roa. The name Easter Island has religious significance, but the island commemorates the discovery by the Dutch vessel, a Easter Sunday in 1722. DNA tests showed that the islanders are descendants of daring travelers arriv...

  Tungus Meteorite, one of the unique phenomena of the twentieth century, fell into Siberian taiga on June 30, 1908, at 65 km and 500 km Vanavara settlement of Krasnoyarsk, near the Tunguska River Podkamennaia tributary of Eniseului. "Meteora" fly above the earth as a globe of fire with a bow and tail was seen on a vast territory. When the explosion, hundreds of kilomentri the epicenter could be heard as a thunder storm shock wave produced by explosion broke taigaua an are...

  At an altitude of 4000 meters in the Bolivian Andes, the ruins of ancient settlements. Aymara natives legends say that Tiahuanaco was built in one night and some giant men, whites - Sons of the Sun - owned by an alien race that would be created and all the graphics from Nazca, Peru.     Tiahuanaco people settled on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca around 400 BC The main center has developed into a lively city, where many pyramids were built t...

   Famous Death Valley in California, USA, is one of those places lunar aspect, where life would seem impossible. Feared and avoided by the natives until the arrival of European settlers, arid valleys of California system and was named in 1849. It seems that when a group of gold seekers in tempted to reach the gold mines in Sacramento, ventured into the dreaded crossing valleys.      Although apparently easier than crossing the mountains, th...