Year: 2011

727 Fuselage Home

Discover 727 Fuselage Home in Quepos, Costa Rica: Costa Rican accommodation resembles a crash site, but with a nice balcony.

Castle of Wewelsburg

Discover Castle of Wewelsburg in Büren, Germany: This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

Dolmen Chapel of Sao Brissos

Discover Dolmen Chapel of Sao Brissos in Santiago do Escoural, Portugal: A neolithic tomb converted into a tiny chapel.

Anta de Pavia

Discover Anta de Pavia in Pavia, Portugal: Pagan monument converted to Christianity with the population.

Stone House

Discover Stone House in Moreira do Rei, Portugal: A small Portuguese cottage formed between boulders in the countryside.

touched echo

Discover touched echo in Dresden, Germany: Silent memorial, using bone conduction to take people back to the Dresden Bombing of 1945.

Peristal Singum

Discover Peristal Singum in Berlin, Germany: Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul.".

Powerline Eberdingen-Riet

Discover Powerline Eberdingen-Riet in Vaihingen an der Enz, Germany: 20kV overhead line with a garland-like cable.

Pylon 9108

Discover Pylon 9108 in Fulda, Germany: Electricity pylon standing in the middle of a shelter.

Wolmirstedt Converter Hall

Discover Wolmirstedt Converter Hall in Wolmirstedt, Germany: Where the interconnection of German power grids should be.

Anlage 0704

Discover Anlage 0704 in Nehren, Germany: Powerline dead since the 1980s despite appearances.

Armschwinger

Discover Armschwinger in Wurmberg, Germany: This unusual small wind turbine in Germany has only a single rotor blade.

Fuhrlander Wind Turbine Laasow

Discover Fuhrlander Wind Turbine Laasow in Vetschau, Germany: Tallest – but not most powerful – wind turbine in the world.

Deutschlandsender III

Discover Deutschlandsender III in Herzberg, Germany: Remains of a huge radio tower.

Bad Dürkheim Aerial Tramway

Discover Bad Dürkheim Aerial Tramway in Bad Dürkheim, Germany: Ruins of an aerial tramway that ran for only eight years.

Fernsehturm Müggelberge

Discover Fernsehturm Müggelberge in Berlin, Germany: This TV tower once secretly housed a GDR intelligence team.

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To be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals. 135 v
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