Segera retreat in Kenya is home to a beautiful wildlife. The retreat offers several villas to visitors, who want an African getaway, but still like to have a luxury. The Nay Palad Bird Nest Villa is definitely most incredible place, where human can have a glimpse into a birds life. The place truly looks like…
There is a beautiful bridge on the narrow-gauge railway from Borjomi in Bakuriani. It’s famous because it was built by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel in 1902. He is best known for the world-famous Eiffel Tower, built in Paris.
It’s a story that has been told time and again – someone drops out of school at 15 with claims that they won’t amount to anything following them out of the door, only to end up spectacularly defying their doubters. What did that someone go on to become? A famous writer, perhaps? A pop star?…
Saint-Michel d’Aiguilhe chapel in Aiguilhe, near Le Puy-en-Velay, France, is the 4th best monument in the country, according to the French. The chapel’s amazing location attracts pilgrims and tourists from all over the world. Saint-Michel d’Aiguilhe is translated as St.Michael on a needle. Rock formation resembling a needle, gave the name to the chapel. As…
Corleone is an Italian town and commune of roughly 11,158 inhabitants in Sicily. Several Mafia bosses have come from Corleone, including: Tommy Gagliano, Jack Dragna, Giuseppe Morello, Michele Navarra, Luciano Leggio, Leoluca Bagarella, Salvatore Riina and Bernardo Provenzano. It is also the birthplace of several fictional characters in Mario Puzo’s novel The Godfather, including the…
Born on Christmas day prematurely in 1642 , Isaac Newton was not expected to live, but he became a revolutionary scientist. His theory of universal gravitation and laws of motion were groundbreaking. Becides being a physicist, he also was an astronomer, a mathematician and a theologist. Regardless of being science enthusiast or not, the story…
One of the most amazing bathrooms is located next to the geothermal station Krafla, in Iceland. In order to obtain heat directly from interaction with terrestrial magma, an experiment was conducted there from 2009 till 2011. So, the station receives energy from underground sources. On the side of the road leading to Kraflu, in the…
When wandering around the streets of London, visitors often overlook small green shacks. They are actually Cabmen’s Shelters, that have been around for over a century: since 1875 to be exact. Back then, cab drivers drove a horse-drawn carriage called the hansom cab. Drivers were not allowed to leave it on the street unattended, so…