11 Beautiful Places in South Korea

South Korea is a unique country where the modern high-tech era intertwines with ancient buildings carefully guarded by the state. The sights of South Korea are ancient palaces, fantastic nature, and modern metropolises. So what to see in South Korea if you are in this country for the first time? Especially for you, we have selected the most exciting places in this colourful Asian country.

20 villages that actually exist, although it's hard to believe

 For more than a century, urbanization has been going on worldwide, forcing more and more people to change the leisurely village life for crazy city life. Cities attract finance, art, science. On the other hand, the countryside offers nothing but manual labor and, of course, stunning views.

We present to your attention a selection of 20 frames, which capture villages around the world. Looking at them, you understand why poets have always sung the praises of the countryside. The countryside has something pristine, pure, and unshakable. It is easier to breathe there, think and work.

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Alberobello, southern Italy

Pantai Merah | The pink sand beach of Indonesia

Pantai Merah, also called Pantai Serai and Pink Beach, is one of the seven pink sand beaches on the planet. Located on the Indonesian island of Komodo, situated within a national park, its vibrant color is due to the microscopic fragments of red corals that mix with the shining white sand of the coast. There is a second theory for the pink color of the sand, the foraminifera pigment, which is carried by fragments of coral mixed with shells and calcium carbonate material. 

Valley of Butterflies Rhodes

The Petaloudes Valley, just 27 km from the capital of Rhodes, Greece better known as the Valley of the Butterflies. This unique nature reserve is a beautiful park that stretches along the gorge to the top of the hill. Thanks to numerous streams, small lakes, and waterfalls, as well as dense vegetation and styrax trees that emit fragrant resins, the park has a unique, mild, and humid microclimate that attracts millions of bear butterflies. Every year they flock here from all over Rhodes during the mating season - from late May to September. 

Valley of Butterflies Rhodes

Guitar shaped forest in memory of the deceased wife

In memory of his wife, farmer Pedro Martin Ureta has grown a forest in the shape of a guitar in Argentina. This took about 35 years. This touching monument can only be fully seen from a bird's eye view.

 Guitar forest in Pampas Argentina

The last mystery of Easter Island

The last mystery of Easter Island: where did all the inhabitants disappear — Easter Island is one of the most isolated places in the world. A piece of land with an area of ​​164 square kilometers and the mainland are separated by 3.5 thousand kilometers, and the nearest inhabited island of Pitcairn is located 2075 kilometers from the island. The Dutch seafarers who discovered the island in 1722 found people on it who were at the stage of the Stone Age in terms of technical development, and hundreds of huge statues, over the origin and purpose of which more than one generation of scientists was puzzled. We decided to figure out why the construction of stone giants stopped and where the indigenous inhabitants of the island disappeared.

Easter island discovery

The Sark prison — The Smallest Prison In The world

 

The smallest prison in the world is located on Sark Island, one of the quietest, most peaceful and ecologically clean places on Earth. The use of cars is prohibited on the island, no planes fly over it. Even in such a truly paradise corner, there was a place for such a gloomy structure. The prison is designed for two people and its history is unique, like itself.

The Saltiest Places On Earth

Many people mistakenly consider the seas and oceans to be the largest suppliers of salt. However, 96% of all water is in the World Ocean. It contains thousands of billions of tons of dissolved salts, and its salinity is constantly changing. At the poles, snow and ice significantly dilute the composition of the water. But there are places on our planet that have a much higher salt concentration. Here some saltiest places on earth.

Hess Triangle - The Small Piece Of Private Property In New York

The Hess triangle is a smallest piece of private property which puzzling little triangular mosaic sits on the sidewalk across from the entrance to the Village Cigars tobacco shop on the corner of Christopher Street and 7th Avenue in New York City, with the inscription: "Hess Heritage Property Which Has Never Been Dedicated For Public Purposes".

Hess Triangle

 

Extremely unusual sights in the USA

In the United States, there are not only protests, burgers and casinos, but also many interesting places that are pleasant to visit both alone and with a company.

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Nebraska (Alliance) - analogue of Stonehenge from cars

Shaniko Ghost Town Filled With Classic Cars

If you like the atmosphere of abandoned cities and retro cars, then the town of Shaniko, located in the United States of America, can delight you with its views. However, Shaniko is different from his own kind - he has owners. But the abandoned town, filled with classic and rare cars, looks very original.

Eerie monuments that make you feel uncomfortable

A memorial is built as a framework to commemorate a person or event. There are many types of monuments in the world, which have different purposes to make. Out of these, 6 eerie monuments that make you feel uncomfortable.

Recently, a memorial dedicated to the victims of domestic violence was opened in Turkey: 440 pairs of shoes nailed to the wall symbolize the defenselessness of women against the aggression of their companions. This is not the only piece of art that makes you feel uncomfortable looking at.

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Shoes and Domestic Violence

15 Most Beautiful Stupas And Pagodas In The World

Wonderful confluence of beautification and devotion. Although devotion and attraction are no match, people arriving in search of beauty get an opportunity to join in devotion. As you too have been chanted by looking at these pictures, if you are present on these places, then the situation will be very different. Thrillist has prepared a list of the most beautiful pagodas that dot the countries of East and South East Asia.

The pagoda of the To-ji Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan.

Famous Landmarks from Different Angle

We often see photos of popular architecture and other attractions from around the world on the Internet. Usually they are all shot from the same angle that everyone is familiar with, so we decided to show how famous structures look from a different angle but from such an angle, most likely for the first time. This is precisely the zest and spectacularity of these pictures with the banal names “Statue of Liberty” or “Arc de Triomphe”. It's really worth taking a look at!  

Photo from the top view of the Egyptian pyramid of Khafre

Abandoned Monuments of Soviet Era

Mark O'Neill is an award winning photographer based in Reading, UK. From his travels to the former lands of Yugoslavia, Mark brought back a series of photographs of Monuments.

Each monument has a unique shape and texture. Exploring the landscape, the imagination brings these lonely monuments closer to the monuments of an ancient civilization, buried in the sands of time. In the language of sculpture, each monument invites to tell the story of its past. Wartime events worth remembering. The events are too horrific to be forgotten.

Piwnica Swidnicka | The 700 years old operating restaurant in Europe

Piwnica Swidnicka is the oldest restaurant in Europe. For seven hundred years, it has been receiving visitors from the building of the town hall of the Polish city of Wroclaw.

The institution opened in the 13th century, and got its name from the beer from the city of Świdnica, which was originally served here. Frederic Chopin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche and other famous personalities once dined in these spacious rooms. Despite the bombing of 1945, the restaurant has been perfectly preserved. Let's take a look at the famous underground pub together.

Life Scenes from Vietnam in the Pictures

Vietnam is a state in Southeast Asia, located on the Indochina Peninsula. They say that the shape of the territory of Vietnam on the map resembles the Latin letter "S", and the Vietnamese are descended of a dragon and a fairy bird.

Vietnamese woman collects dried incense sticks ha sale. (Photo by Manan Vatsyayana)

Eco-friendly smart city Fujisawa, Japan

In the Japanese prefecture of Kanagawa, there is the most environmentally friendly city in the world, Fujisawa, which, according to the developers, should become the prototype of the city of the future. The Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town is designed for 3000 people, for whom 1000 houses were built. Fujisawa residents use renewable energy sources, use 30% less water and travel by electric vehicles and bicycles.

Man-made structures that are visible from space

Our Earth is amazing, and for many centuries, people have filled it with huge and surprising things: pyramids, giant walls, mega-cities, and more. But for the International Space Station (ISS), which revolves around the Earth at an altitude of 403 km, our planet seems like a very small space. Houses, roads and buildings disappear. Even some of the largest man-made structures merge with the landscape. But there are also those that can be seen from the height of the Earth's orbit.

How Sahara desert look like 5,000 years ago

Sahara is one of the greatest deserts in the world. It extends across almost all of North Africa, occupying as many as nine million square kilometers. In fact, the Sahara desert covers almost a third of the entire Black Continent. Almost nowhere else are there such high temperatures: in summer, the thermometer scale rises to 57 degrees Celsius. But it was not always so. It's hard to believe, but the Sahara was not a hot desert 5,000 years ago. This is just a moment by geological standards.