We all know the famous places like New york, Paris, the Amazon rainforest and others, but the world is bigger than that.
Let’s talk about the places that you might have not even known were real!
17.The Tunnel of love
It located on Ukraine . Walking down a narrow railway doesn’t sound like the most romantic date in the world yet. Though couples love to walk through their hand-in-hand.
The Tunnel of love counts as part of an industrial railway. The green arches surrounding, it make it look less industrial.
However, and much more fairytale like. If you’ve scoured the internet you’ll probably find lots of people who take photos here.
16.Catedral de Marmol
Tucked away near the shores delicate at a lake in Chile, you’ll find the capillas de marmol. It’s also known as the marble caves. Surreal and colorful, the marble caves looked more like a watercolor. Painting rather than a place that you can actually find on earth.
The lake forms from the glaciers of the Patagonian Andes, the water reflecting off. The sunlight and appears blue. The caves formed after 6000 years of the waves are roading the calcium carbonate rock.
15.Sotano de Las Golondrinas
It looks like a daunting drop down. That’s because it really is measuring to a freefall depth of 1090 or 333 meters from the lowest side, and up to 1214 feet or 320 meters at the highest. Sotano de Las Golondrinas would scare anybody afraid of heights where you can’t exactly see the bottom. Also called the cave of the swallows because of the many birds that live in the crevices of the walls. You can find this open-air pit cave in San Luis Potosi Mexico.
14.Gangkhar Puensum
The tallest mountain above sea level in the world, is Mount Everest. We also know that millions of people have tried their hand at scaling that huge mountain in the Himalayas. Not too far from Mount Everest.
It is another tall mountain, the tallest mountain in the world, that’s never been climbed. The mountain Gangkhar Puensum located in bhutan. Measures to an elevation of 24 836 feet or 7 570 meters high.
13.Sossus Mecs Dune 45
It’s in the southernmost region of the Namib Desert known as sucessfully. It is home to a few dunes the most famous of them all is dune 45. It measures to a height of over 80 meters forming for about 5 million years.
12.Leptis Magna
You’ve heard of ancient Rome, Greece and the old monuments of the Inca and the Aztec. But in comparison how popular is a place like Leptis Magna to the general public, not as much really.
Leptis Magna is located in Libya. It was once a major Roman city, it was founded in the 7th century BC and was then expanded by Lucius Septimius Severus during his reign. Along with the theater and Severn Basilica, there’s loads of interesting architecture to be found here with new discoveries happening as late as 2005.
11.Son Doong Cave
Not far from the boundary between Laos and Vietnam, is a largest cave passage by volume in the world, that we know of. The name means cave of the mountain river when translated from Vietnamese. You’d think something this enormous would have been known for years. It was only discovered in 1991. Now hundreds of thousands of tourists journey. Through this cave though only about 800 permits are available per season.
10.Gorges de l’Ardeche
A highly visited yet not as well known place to check out in France. It is the Gorges de l’Ardeche in the Ardeche department of the Rhone-Alps. The gorge runs about 30 kilometers long, raking in over 1 million visitors every year.
So popular yet not at the same time, the réserve naturelle de la ruche protects most of the canyon from any human interference. In any case you can access most of it from the water where people love to kayak and canoe.
9.Semuc Champey
One of the biggest drawing points for people to visit Guatemala is the dense jungle along its mountains.
Semuc Champey is a treasured monument in the country. Though the only way to access, it is by way of a four-wheel drive vehicle. Once you do get there, you’ll come across a cascade of underground waterfalls, aquamarine pools as well as a limestone bridge, that goes over the Carbone River.
8.Kizhi Pogost
Along the Oneg a lake in Corellia Russia is Kizhi Pogost. It’s located in island. The site on which this church stands has been there since the 17th century. The distinct structure of the Church of the transfiguration is made up of 22 domes, with the historical side not using a single nail in its construction, if you can believe it.
In Northern Europe it ranks as one of the tallest wooden buildings. The church is not heated, so it can only be used as a summer church because it’s Russia.
7.Oymyakon
Also in Russia is the coldest town in the world. Oymyakon categorizes a permanently inhabited place with the lowest temperatures, this rural locality in the Shakai Republic in Russia actually exists, and it gets about negative eighty nine point nine degrees Fahrenheit or negative sixty seven point seven degrees Celsius. Its name derives from a phrase that means unfrozen patch of water or even frozen lake.
6.Socotra
It’s even been called the most alien looking place on earth. These strange trees can be found on the island of Socotra, which sits between the Gwadar free and the arabian sea. As an official part of yemen, the largest island in the circuitry archipelago is famous for its blood trees, called such for the red SAP that seeps from the trunk.
5.Palais Ideal
A french postman by the name of Ferdinand Chevelle, decided he would like to spend about 33 years of his life building the most interesting castle in the world, Palais Ideal. After leaving school to become a baker only to change his mind and become a postman cheval. Also decided he was an artist and architecture designer.
The palace can be found in octaves France, a mix of grottoes and flying buttresses designed in what’s called naive art. Referring to artists that lacked the education of art and make art anyway.
4.Kawachi Fuji Garden
After you visited the bustling neon city of tokyo, you can take a six-hour trip to visit the Kawachi Fuji Garden in Kitakyushu-japan. But only do so in late April to May, a major attraction at the private garden is the wisteria flower tunnel complete with purple, white, pink and red wisteria flowers, that hang from the top of the tunnel.
3.Red Beach
The sand isn’t red, the water isn’t red, so what exactly makes the red Beach red?
Grass that’s why it found in the dawa County of China, red Beach and pungent has been made world-famous for the shweta grass, that lives in the highly alkaline soil. Impossible for a lot of other plants, new grass turns light red in April as part of its growth cycle. Though the more mature grass will turn a deep red. decks and buildings supported by wooden beams. help keep the walkable areas above the shallow sea and tideland.
2.Sagano Bamboo Forest
Right near the outskirts of Kyoto Japan is a force that looks out of this world. We may not think much of Bamboo, but if the Saginaw forest proves anything, there’s a lot of Bamboo to think of.
1.The Standing Stones of Callanish
It does look like a skinnier version, these are actually the colonists stones. Located in the scottish village of Callanish. Found on a low ridge above the stones form a central stone circle dating all the way back to the Bronze Age.
That’s all for 16 places that you might have not even known were real!
