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Draculas Castle 360 Tour. Discover Bran Castle, most commonly known as Dracula's Castle.
Bram Stoker based his novel on the 15th century Wallachian Prince Vlad Tepes (Dracula) and Bran Castle, though the castle was actually built by Saxons from Brasov in 1382 to defend against the Turks. When visiting Romania, Dracula's Castle perched atop a 60 metre peak in the centre of Bran village is a must see. This first ever 360º virtual tour of Dracula's has been provided to the Romanian tourist board to increase exposure and Romania tourism.
Creepiest Place on the Planet: Island of Dolls, Mexico. On a creepy island in a creepy swamp south of Mexico City there’s a place that looks like the stuff of nightmares and horror movies.
Here, among the scraggily branches and dead trees hang hundreds of old, mangled dolls. The story goes like this: It was around 50 years ago that a little girl drowned off a small island hidden deep amongst the canals of Xochimico. The island’s only permanent inhabitant was a recluse named Don Julián Santana Barrera. Soon after the girl’s death Barrera fished an old doll out of the water. From here the story becomes murky. One fact is incontrovertible: Wandering around the Isla De Las Muñecas (Island of Dolls) is a ghoulish experience. Getting there: The canals and ancient lake of Xochimilco are, in general, a semi-popular attraction. To see the Xochimilco canals you must travel by a trajinera, a wooden boat maneuvered by a long oar (see photo). The Island of Dolls is not on the regular tourist routes the trajinera take.
Updated: 29 Oct Jan 2010.
Weird Places. Eighth wonder of the world? The stunning temples secretly carved out below ground by 'paranormal' eccentric. Nestling in the foothills of the Alps in northern Italy, 30 miles from the ancient city of Turin, lies the valley of Valchiusella.
Peppered with medieval villages, the hillside scenery is certainly picturesque. But it is deep underground, buried into the ancient rock, that the region's greatest wonders are concealed. Scroll down for more... Here, 100ft down and hidden from public view, lies an astonishing secret - one that has drawn comparisons with the fabled city of Atlantis and has been dubbed 'the Eighth Wonder of the World' by the Italian government. For weaving their way underneath the hillside are nine ornate temples, on five levels, whose scale and opulence take the breath away. Constructed like a three-dimensional book, narrating the history of humanity, they are linked by hundreds of metres of richly decorated tunnels and occupy almost 300,000 cubic feet - Big Ben is 15,000 cubic feet.
Few have been granted permission to see these marvels. UNEXPLAINED AMERICA - UNSOLVED MYSTERIES! Visible Only From Above, Mystifying 'Nazca Lines' Discovered In Mideast. The giant stone structures form wheel shapes with spokes often radiating inside.
Here a cluster of wheels in the Azraq Oasis.David D. Boyer They stretch from Syria to Saudi Arabia, can be seen from the air but not the ground, and are virtually unknown to the public. They are the Middle East's own version of the Nazca Lines — ancient "geolyphs," or drawings, that span deserts in southern Peru — and now, thanks to new satellite-mapping technologies, and an aerial photography program in Jordan, researchers are discovering more of them than ever before. They number well into the thousands. Referred to by archaeologists as "wheels," these stone structures have a wide variety of designs, with a common one being a circle with spokes radiating inside.
Kennedy's new research, which will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science, reveals that these wheels form part of a variety of stone landscapes. Fascinating structures Indeed, in 1927 RAF Flight Lt.