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Kyaiktiyo Pagoda, Myanmar
Place of the dayKyaiktiyo Pagoda, Myanmar

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Amazon rainforest
forest · BrazilAmazon rainforest

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Stonehenge
stone circle · United KingdomStonehenge

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Nature

Wonders of nature

Canyons, waterfalls, glaciers and coasts — places no one designed, chosen for how they look, not for how famous they are.

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coral reefAustralia

Great Barrier Reef

At around 344,400 square kilometers and roughly 2,300 km long, the Great Barrier Reef isn't one reef so much as some 3,000 individual reefs and hundreds of islands strung together — a footprint about the size of Italy or…

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hot springTurkey

Pamukkale

Pamukkale means "cotton castle," and the name is literal: mineral-rich water rises from underground springs at around 35°C, then cools as it spills down the slope, and as it cools it can no longer hold all the calcium…

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213 places

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Wonders made by people

Temples, bridges, castles and gardens — the most beautiful things people have built, one best example of each ensemble.

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fortIndia

Agra Fort

Agra Fort is the walled citadel from which the Mughal emperors ruled northern India for most of a century, and it is the key to understanding everything else in Agra, the Taj Mahal included.

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viaductGermany

Göltzsch Viaduct

The Göltzsch Viaduct is a bridge built almost entirely out of small clay bricks — 26,021,000 of them, laid by hand between 1846 and 1851 — because the valley it crosses happened to sit on abundant loam deposits, and…

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open-air museumItaly

Hadrian's Villa

Hadrian was the Roman emperor who actually left the empire to go look at it — he spent more of his reign travelling its provinces than any predecessor, and when he came home, he didn't just bring back souvenirs.

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A collection, not a directory

FabledPlaces is a collection of the world's most beautiful places: natural wonders, architecture, ancient sites and places of legend. It is not a travel booking site and not a directory of everything — it is a selection.

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