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Author: Cindy Carlsson

Text and photos provided by Cindy Carlsson, the always-curious traveler and photographer behind the website ExplorationVacation. Cindy loves diving deep into the places she visits and sharing her discoveries on the website, Facebook, and Instagram.
A classical-style theater building.

Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos

A 19th-century French settlement in Cuba with a range of interesting architecture, from neoclassical to deco and modern.

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A path with steps in a very green lush forest.

Vallée de Mai Nature Reserve

A primordial forest of unique endemic palm trees and other endemic species.

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Brick building with neoclassical portico on the front and a dome on top.

Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville

Two early and fine examples of Neoclassical architecture, designed by Thomas Jefferson, 3rd president of the US.

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A closer view of the white terraces shows several small pools of blue water.

Hierapolis-Pamukkale

A Greco-Roman spa town and the enormous calcium terraces, waterfalls, basins and pools where it is located.

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A big view from a mountain toward a ridge of mountains, which have snow near the tops.

Olympic National Park

A large and beautiful park containing mountains, old-growth forests, temperate rainforests and beaches.

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A whale breaching the water almost vertically, quite high so both flippers are above the water too.

Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaíno

Two Baja California lagoons used by gray whales for giving birth and mating.

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A gorgeous view of Doubtful sound as it cuts between mountains.

Te Wāhipounamu – South West New Zealand

A vast wilderness area of great natural beauty with mountains, fjords, sounds, rainforests, glaciers, and a range of fauna and flora.

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A very tall and very steep stone pyramid with a flat top.

Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal

Four sets of pre-Columbian ruins that exemplify Mayan art and architecture when Mayan civilization was at its height.

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A flat grassy area with a scattering of the large granite jars, some of them eroded or broken.

Megalithic Jar Sites in Xiengkhuang – Plain of Jars

Ancient sites with large stone jars that were used in funeral rituals.

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Looking down a long rectangular courtyard with arches supported by double pillars all around it: They're ornately decorated in an Islamic style. The upper story is also lined with arches supported by single pillars.

Cathedral, Alcázar and Archivo de Indias in Seville

Three properties that are central to the history of Spain’s “Golden Age.”

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A view over the city of Angra do Heroismo in Terceira, Azores, with the sea beyond it.

Central Zone of the Town of Angra do Heroísmo

An important port in the busy shipping routes between Europe, the Americas and Africa from the 15th-19th centuries.

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The wall of the Medina of Essaouira's fortification: an opening shows a cannon pointed outward, and a guard post rises next to it. In front of the wall on the water's edge are blue-painted fishing boats.

Medina of Essaouira (formerly Mogador)

An 18th-century fortified city incorporating both African and European architectural forms.

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Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks: Peyto Lake in Banff National Park is a bluish-grey color surrounded by snow-capped mountains.

Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks

Seven parks encompassing all the grandeur of the Canadian Rockies with magnificent mountain scenery.

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A close-up of a section of "pavement", looking like uneven tiles of stone.

Giant’s Causeway and Causeway Coast

An area of seaside cliffs comprising polygonal stone columns that seemingly form a “pavement.”

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An archway, with the arch standing on a pillar on each side.

The Caliphate City of Medina Azahara

Ruins of a 10th-century fortified Umayyad city.

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A field with wildflowers with, in the background, a mountain that looks just like the face of a person lying on their back.

Antequera Dolmens Site

Megalithic tombs and the natural features that align with them.

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Wild horses graze next to the water.

Doñana National Park

A protected natural wilderness area that is essential for birds migrating between Africa and Europe and for other species.

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flowers and fields in the foreground, and Belvedere Palace in the background - historic center of Vienna

Historic Center of Vienna

An urban center with a wide range of outstanding historical architecture, viewed as the music capital of Europe.

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Rice terraces with palm trees and mountains in the distance.

Cultural Landscape of Bali Province: the Subak System as a Manifestation of the Tri Hita Karana Philosophy

A traditional communal system interconnecting natural, religious and cultural components.

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A view of Český Krumlov Castle with the red roofs of the town in front of it. The castle is very large and has a round tower rising quite high above it.

Historic Center of Český Krumlov

An intact and very charming medieval city surrounding a large 13th-century castle with Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque elements.

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View of Valtice Castle: white stone, about 4 stories tall and symmetrical, with a small tower over an ornate central archway and wings extending forward on both sides of the central archway. In front, a round fountain.

Lednice-Valtice Cultural Landscape

Two castles and the extensive grounds, gardens and outbuildings around them form a harmonious man-made cultural landscape.

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A cluster of red earth buildings with few windows, on the side of a hill. Decorative features carved around the tops of the buildings. Above them, on top of the hill, stone walls of a fortress.

Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou

A largely intact earthen fortified village that lends insight into traditional Moroccan life.

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A small fishing boat in Ha Long Bay, in front of two islands connected by a small stretch of sand. Between them more sea is visible.

Ha Long Bay – Cat Ba Archipelago

A stunning natural landscape and seascape of tall limestone pillars and islands.

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A large flat-sided rock outcropping with a clearly visible drawing of an antelope of some sort on the left - it must be quite big given the distance to the stone - and a somewhat less clear image on the right, also of an antelope. At Tsodilo Hills in Botswana.

Tsodilo

Rock formations bearing a huge collection of petroglyphs spanning thousands of years.

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A view from the North rim of the Grand Canyon: trees and bushes in the foreground, then a big view of the canyon, with its carved horizontal layers of reddish rock.

Grand Canyon National Park

A vast gorge cut over the ages by the Colorado River, revealing 2 billion years of geologic history.

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An exterior view of the Plantin-Moretus Museum's courtyard: red brick, 2-3 stories high, with 2 gables visible, and a portico along the ground floor.

Plantin-Moretus House-Workshops-Museum Complex

300 years of printing history and domestic life, with art by Rubens.

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A path through lush greenery, trees on either side, a field of flowers straight ahead and to the right, mostly purple and whilte.

Singapore Botanic Gardens

An extensive tropical garden that has evolved since its founding in the colonial period to become a world-class scientific institution.

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Ruins of a temple, with tall columns supporting ornate pediments.

Pergamon and its Multi-Layered Cultural Landscape

A collection of 9 archeological sites covering several historical periods of an important city’s grand monuments.

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A sloped landscape with a scattering of ruins: a well is visible, and a small building, as well as foundations of more buildings and some retaining walls at Troy Archaeological Site.

Archaeological Site of Troy

Excavation of the ancient Greek city of Troy, site of the Trojan War.

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A white mosque with gray domes and very tall slender minarets. Beside it is a structure that looks like a castle's keep, round with crenellations around the top.

Historic Cairo

A collection of more than 800(!) structures – a fortress, religious sites, houses, cemeteries and many more – dating from about 100 AD until the 18th century.

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Two of the houses in Vlkolínec UNESCO site, one painted lime green with brown window frames and one painted light blue with bright yellow window frames. Both have wood shingle roofs.

Vlkolínec

A well-preserved rural mountain village with traditional wooden architecture.

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In Vilnius historic center, a street view with what look like medieval era residential buildings along the street, painted in pastels. In the distance a church spire in Baroque style is visible.

Vilnius Historic Centre

An Eastern European city center with its original medieval street layout and architectural forms spanning centuries.

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A round building with a semi-spherical green roof, surrounded by very precise formal gardens with low hedges and flowers.

Gardens and Castle at Kroměříž

A palace and three gardens, one of which represents the epitome of Baroque garden design.

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Ruins of a temple at My Son Sanctuary in Vietnam: stone, intricately carved, with walls but no roof.

My Son Sanctuary

Evocative ruins of Champa kingdom Hindu temples, elaborately carved, with brick towers.

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A row of four enormous statues, seen from the side, guard the entranceways to the temple. Each has its arms crossed across its chest and each has a long straight beard.

Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis

Extensive temples and tombs that illuminate the history of ancient Egyptian civilization in architecture, art and text.

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At Grimeton Radio Station: A flat green field, with several very tall metal radio towers scattered across it.

Grimeton Radio Station

For radio buffs, a surviving operational example of pre-electronic radio technology.

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