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Curated, interactive walking tours, with no crowds and no tipping. Whenever and wherever you'd like. At your own pace.

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If you think that wouldnt happen in Hermes then its likely your keys are already exposed somewhere

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That red gateway against the yellow walls is so Seville.

The ring took 120 years to build, from 1761 to 1881. Partway through, the architect moved its centre to squeeze it onto the land they had, which is why the arena isn't a true circle and the building has 30 unequal sides.

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@Guided_Walks Such a great painting to dig into.

Victoria actually wore black that day, in mourning for her uncle William IV. Wilkie switched her to white so she'd stand out from all the men in dark coats, and she disliked the painting intensely for it.

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Love the close-up of that carved portal!

A ring of 71 life-size stone faces from the 1440s runs around the back of the cathedral. They're so true to life that neurologists have spotted real conditions in about 20 of them, from crossed eyes and drooping eyelids to one man's facial palsy.

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@Architectolder Looking straight up the stairwell like this is the best angle.

That wrought-iron chandelier weighs about 1,700 pounds, drops four stories with 72 bulbs, and hangs from a single bolt in the copper dome on the roof.

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@ThierryTout Those blue and gold vaults are incredible!

The giant Last Judgment on the west wall has a doorway right through its middle. In 1693 a bishop had the centre, most likely Christ the Judge, cut out to open a new chapel under the bell tower.

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Anders nailed that orange fog!

At Christmas 1317, King Birger invited his brothers to a feast at Nyköping Castle, then locked them in its dungeon that night, where they died. Legend says he threw the key in the river, and a medieval key was later found in it.

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@VanishedLondon Your dad's 1947 shot is a treasure, love the mussels sign!

Hooke and Wren built the Monument to double as a giant telescope: a lab underneath, the hollow column as the tube, and a lid in the urn on top that opens to the sky. It shook too much to work.

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@1scottishbanter Whoa!!

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@PerseusLeGrand I love your mission!! Je te souhaite de réussir

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Amazing to see the Capitol with its old wooden dome.

That plate turned up at a San Francisco-area flea market in 1972, tarnished and unidentified, along with a few other Plumbe views. Library of Congress staff realized they were the earliest photos of any buildings in Washington.

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@visitportugal Fátima at night looks so peaceful.

The bullet that hit Pope John Paul II in 1981 is now set in the crown of the Our Lady of Fátima statue here. The crown was made decades earlier with a small empty ring, and the bullet turned out to fit it exactly.

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Golden hour on the Mall is hard to beat!

Before the aluminum tip went up in 1884, it was the biggest piece of aluminum ever cast and sat on the floor at Tiffany's in New York. Visitors stepped over it so they could say they'd jumped over the top of the Washington Monument.

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Dusk is the best time for Marina Bay Sands.

That rooftop pool sits on about 500 adjustable jacks. The three towers can settle into the reclaimed land at different rates, so engineers can re-level the 146-meter edge and keep the water spilling over evenly.

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Love that felucca sailing past the palms!

Around 240 BC, Eratosthenes used Aswan to measure the whole Earth. At noon on the summer solstice the sun shone straight down a well here with no shadow, while a stick in Alexandria cast one. From that one angle he worked out the size of the planet.

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Burg Eltz in autumn looks unreal.

In the 1330s the Archbishop of Trier besieged it and built a whole second castle on the hill opposite just to bombard it. The ruins of that siege castle are still there, and the same family has owned Eltz for 34 generations.

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What a view of the arena from up here!

In 1583 Venice reportedly planned to take the whole amphitheatre apart stone by stone and rebuild it in Venice. One senator, Gabriele Emo, talked them out of it, and Pula thanked him with a plaque that's still on one of the towers.

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