Known for looking like something out of a fairytale, Mont Saint-Michel is a tidal island in France outside of Normandy with a population of 41 people.
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mashaorlov: rainbow pool, Madrid
Prague’s Astronomical Clock
The Prague Astronomical Clock, or Pražský Orloj, is a medieval clock mounted on the southern wall of Prague’s Old Town City Hall. Clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and Jan Šindel manufactured the Orloj’s astronomical dial just over 600 years ago in 1410. Despite being the world’s oldest working astronomical clock, the Pražský Orloj still provides an overwhelming amount of information.
This sophisticated clock’s dials, hands and markings display the times of sunrise and sunset, moonrise and moonset, the height of the sun at midday, the times of the solstices and equinoxes, how the Sun moves through the zodiac and how the Moon and the Sun move in the sky above them. It also tells the time—in three different ways! The Orloj is a beautiful and intricate representation of the human desire to understand and explore the heavens.
To see more photographs of this truly amazing clock, visit the Pražský Orloj | Astronomical Clock location page.
Urban Vertical Garden Built From Hundreds of Recycled Soda Bottles
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Libyan Desert Bashar Shglila
Amazing outdoor sculpture that looks like a cartoon by http://gibbsfarm.org.nz
This wooden folly cantilevers across a garden lake to create a meditation room and children’s play den for a family living in Hampshire, England
Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, NM, c. 828-1126 CE
‘Pueblo Bonito, the largest “Great House” in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northern New Mexico, was built by ancestral Pueblo people.’ This passageway conveys a highly phenomenological understanding of threshold, movement, and spatial juxtaposition.
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