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Center of the World: A place in Ohio that is actually about 41 degrees north and 81 degrees west of the center of the world. These people need to look at a map. Chad: This country is populated and ruled by alpha males. Charm: A charming Amish community in Ohio where an influx of visitors is an unfortunate intrusion. Chateaugay: A town in New York.
Beating the world-famous Leaning Tower of Pisa by 1.22 degrees. List of destroyed landmarks in Spain. Over 60 interesting buildings, including larger castles, royal palaces, leaning towers, city gates which were completely or partially demolished and no longer exist, with their respective articles and images.
Fucking, Austria.The village was renamed on 1 January 2021 to "Fugging" Hell, Norway.The hillside sign is visible in the background in the left corner. Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including especially ...
An island which was shown on Google Maps satellite view until 2012 despite not existing. That Wānaka Tree: A tree named after a hashtag on Instagram. Taumata: With a full name consisting of 85 characters, this hill may be the longest place name in the world. Te Urewera: A forested area in New Zealand that is also a legal person (see below ...
ISBN. 978-0374173227. The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous is a 2020 book by Harvard professor Joseph Henrich that aims to explain history and psychological variation using approaches from cultural evolution and evolutionary psychology.
This is a list of gravity hills and magnetic hills around the world. A gravity hill is a place where a slight downhill slope appears to be an uphill slope due to the layout of the surrounding land, creating the optical illusion that water flows uphill or that a car left out of gear will roll uphill. Many of these sites have no specific name and ...
Crooked Forest. / 53.21389°N 14.47500°E / 53.21389; 14.47500. The Crooked Forest ( Polish: Krzywy Las) is a grove of oddly-shaped pine trees located in the village of Nowe Czarnowo near the town of Gryfino, West Pomerania, in north-western Poland. It is a protected natural monument of Poland. [1]
The Mystery Spot is a tourist attraction near Santa Cruz, California, opened in 1939 by George Prather. [2] Visitors experience demonstrations that appear to defy gravity, on the short but steep uphill walk and inside a wooden building on the site. It is a popular tourist attraction, and gained recognition as a roadside "gravity box" or "tilted ...