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National Gallery of Victoria
National Gallery of Victoria
Tourist Attractions

The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest and the largest public art gallery in Australia. The main gallery is...

Luna Park Sydney
Luna Park Sydney
Tourist Attractions

Luna Park Sydney (originally Luna Park Milsons Point, also known as Sydney's Luna Park) is an amusement park, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Luna Park is located at Milsons Point, on...

Rialto Bridge
Rialto Bridge
Tourist Attractions

The Rialto Bridge (Italian: Ponte di Rialto) is one of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy. It is the oldest bridge across the canal. The first dry crossing of the...

Glasgow School of Art
Glasgow School of Art
Tourist Attractions

Glasgow School of Art (GSA) is one of only two independent art schools in Scotland, situated in the Garnethill area of Glasgow. It was founded in 1845 as the Glasgow Government School of...

Kezar Stadium
Kezar Stadium
Tourist Attractions

Kezar Stadium is a stadium located adjacent to Kezar Pavilion in the southeastern corner of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California. It is the former home of the Oakland Raiders and...

Presidio of San Francisco
Presidio of San Francisco
Tourist Attractions

The Presidio of San Francisco (originally, El Presidio Real de San Francisco or Royal Presidio of San Francisco) is a park on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San...

Hyde Park, London
Hyde Park, London
Tourist Attractions

Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, England and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers' Corner. The park is divided in two by the Serpentine. The park...

Manneken Pis
Manneken Pis
Works of Art, Tourist Attractions

Manneken Pis (help·info) (Dutch for little man urinating), also known in French as the petit Julien, is a famous Brussels landmark. It is a small bronze fountain sculpture depicting a naked...

Puerta del Sol
Puerta del Sol
Tourist Attractions

The Puerta del Sol (Spanish for "Gate of the Sun") is one of the most well known and busiest places in Madrid. This is the centre (Km 0) of the radial network of Spanish roads. The square...

Lake Maggiore
Lake Maggiore
Tourist Attractions

Lake Maggiore (Italian: Lago Maggiore, pronounced [ˈlaɡo maˈddʒjore] or Verbano [verˈbano]; Latin: Lacus Verbanus) is a large lake located on the south side of the Alps. It is the second...

DuSable Museum
DuSable Museum
Tourist Attractions

The DuSable Museum of African American History is the first and oldest museum dedicated to the study and conservation of African American history, culture, and art. It was founded in 1961 by...

Central London
Central London
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Central London is the innermost part of London, England. There is no official or commonly accepted definition of its area, but its characteristics are understood to include a high density...

San Francisco City Hall
San Francisco City Hall
Tourist Attractions

San Francisco City Hall re-opened in 1915, in its open space area in the city's Civic Center, is a Beaux-Arts monument to the City Beautiful movement that epitomized the high-minded American...

Winter Palace
Winter Palace
Tourist Attractions

The Winter Palace (Russian: Зимний дворец) in Saint Petersburg, Russia, was, from 1732 to 1917, the official residence of the Russian Tsars. Situated between the Palace Embankment and the...

Santa Maria delle Grazie
Santa Maria delle Grazie
Tourist Attractions

Santa Maria delle Grazie ("Holy Mary of Grace") is a famous church and Dominican convent in Milan, included in the UNESCO World Heritage sites list. The church is also famous for the mural...

Schönbrunn Palace
Schönbrunn Palace
Tourist Attractions

Schönbrunn Palace (German: Schloss Schönbrunn [ʃøːnˈbʁʊn]) is a former imperial summer residence in Vienna, Austria. One of the most important cultural monuments in the country, since the...

Palace of Westminster
Palace of Westminster
Tourist Attractions

The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, is the meeting place of the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom—the House of Lords and...

Vancouver Museum
Vancouver Museum
Tourist Attractions

The Museum of Vancouver (MOV) (formerly the Vancouver Museum) is a local museum located in Vanier Park, Vancouver, British Columbia. The MOV is the largest civic museum in Canada. The museum...

Cape Tribulation
Cape Tribulation
Cities, Tourist Attractions

Cape Tribulation (16°04′S 145°28′E / 16.067°S 145.467°E / -16.067; 145.467) is a headland and locality in northern Queensland, Australia 110 km (68 mi) north of Cairns. It is located...

Île de la Cité
Île de la Cité
Tourist Attractions

The Île de la Cité is one of two natural islands in the Seine within the city of Paris (the other being Île Saint-Louis, the Île des Cygnes being artificial). It is the centre of Paris and...

Prater
Prater
Tourist Attractions

The Wiener Prater is a large public park in Vienna's 2nd district Leopoldstadt. The Wurstelprater amusement park, often simply called "Prater", stands in one corner of the Prater and...

Palazzo Farnese
Palazzo Farnese
Tourist Attractions

Palazzo Farnese is a High Renaissance palace in Rome, which currently houses the French Embassy in Italy. Begun towards the beginning of the 16th century, the palace building expanded in...

London Stansted Airport
London Stansted Airport
Tourist Attractions

London Stansted Airport (IATA: STN, ICAO: EGSS) is a passenger airport located at Stansted Mountfitchet in the local government district of Uttlesford in Essex, 48 km (30 mi) north-east of...

Summer Palace
Summer Palace
Tourist Attractions

The Summer Palace or Yihe Yuan (simplified Chinese: 颐和园; traditional Chinese: 頤和園; pinyin: Yíhé Yuán; literally "Gardens of Nurtured Harmony") is a palace in Beijing, China. The Summer...

Temple of Olympian Zeus
Temple of Olympian Zeus
Tourist Attractions

The Temple of Olympian Zeus (Greek: Ναὸς τοῦ Ὀλυμπίου Διός, Naos tou Olympiou Dios), also known as the Olympieion, is a colossal ruined temple in the centre of the Greek capital Athens that...

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