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America’s smallest big national park is one steel monument, a lawn and a tram ride that feels like nothing else. We rode to the top of the Gateway Arch for the view over St. Louis and the Mississippi.
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St Peter’s is bigger than your eyes will accept at first. The best way to take it in is to climb: up to the roof, then between the shells of Michelangelo’s dome to the view over Rome.
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It looks just like the postcards until you walk inside. Through the arches, the Colosseum opens up into a vast bowl of stone, with the tunnels of the hypogeum laid bare beneath the arena.
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Florence began its cathedral with a hole in the roof and no idea how to close it. On an evening walk around the Duomo, the marble glows, and Brunelleschi’s dome still fills the end of every street.
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The Tower of Hercules in A Coruña was built by the Romans almost 2,000 years ago, and it is still a working lighthouse. You can walk through its foundations and climb to the top.
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The Camino ends at the cathedral door, but the building deserves a day of its own. We went back to see the baroque west front, the packed nave and the stepped granite roof high above the city.
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Old San Juan is one of the most beautiful historic districts in the Americas — a 500-year-old city of Spanish colonial architecture, military fortifications, and cobblestone streets so
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Miramare Castle sits on a rocky headland jutting into the Gulf of Trieste, eight kilometers northwest of the city center. Built in the 1850s for Archduke Maximilian of
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The Burj Khalifa is the tallest building on earth, and you probably already knew that. What you might not know is just how much goes into actually getting
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Ain Dubai is the world’s largest observation wheel, standing 250 meters tall on Bluewaters Island just off the JBR waterfront in Dubai. It opened in 2021 and holds
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