Around the World in 80 Seconds

The longest traffic jam in the world recorded in China with a length of 260 kilometres

  In the Chinese province of Shandong is a 36 Km bridge across the Gulf of Jiaozhou.
It takes eight car lanes, and it's the longest sea bridge in the world.

 Airport in the Maldives located on an artificial island in the middle of the Indian Ocean

 Balcony of floor 103 in Chicago

 Balloons in Cappadocia, Turkey

 In the resort town of Skagen you can watch an amazing natural phenomenon. This city is the northern most point of Denmark, where the Baltic and North Seas meet. The two opposing tides in this place cannot merge because they have different densities.

 Desert with Phacelia (Scorpion Weed) flowering once every several years

 An unusual tunnel in California's Sequoia National Park

 This statue, created by Bruno Catalano, is located in France

 Banpo Bridge in Seoul, South Korea

 Emerald Lake in the crater of an extinct volcano — Tongariro National Park, New Zealand

 Favelas of Brazil — the boundary between wealth and poverty

 Gibraltar Airport

 Haus Rizzi in Braunschweig, Germany

 Lena Pillars by the Lena River, far eastern Siberia in Russia

 In the city of Buford, USA lives just one person and he works as a janitor and as a mayor

 Lighthouse guard in Mare, France

 Heavy fog over Sydney, Australia

 Lost paradise in the Indian Ocean, Isle of Lamu

 Morning Glory — kind of clouds observed in the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia

In north western Montana, USA the water is so transparent that it seems that it is quite a
shallow lake when in fact it’s pretty deep

 Office of Selgas Cano in Madrid

 Paris computer games store. Note that the floor is absolutely flat.

Restaurant on a cliff on the east coast of Zanzibar. Depending on the tide the restaurant can be reached both on foot and by boat.

 Crescent Moon Tower in Dubai

 These trees grow in the forest near Gryfino, Poland. The cause of the curvature remains unknown.

The world's highest chained carousel is located in Vienna — the height is 117 meters

The river above the river — Magdeburg Water Bridge, Germany

 Sunset from inside a wave

 This is a unique geological phenomenon known as Danxia land form. Those gorgeous colours are the result of an accumulation of red sandstone and other rocks over millions of years. These phenomena can be observed in several places in China. The one in the photo is located in Zhangye, Province of Gansu.

 Thor's Well — "The Gates of the Dungeon" — in Cape Perpetua, Oregon. At moderate tide and strong surf, flowing water creates a scenic landscape

A storm in Montana, USA, 2010

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