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Famous Temples Worldwide
There are a number of temples world over which are famous because of one reason or the other. Some are famous for their architectural designs, some for their locations and some because of their spiritual and religious importance. Wat Rong Khun, Thailand Wat Rong Khun is a Buddhist temple located in Chiang Rai, Thailand. It… [Continue Reading]
Ivanovo Rock Churches
The Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo are a group of about 20 small rock churches, chapels, as well as over 300 individual cells and monasteries hewn out of solid rock and completely different from other monastery complexes in Bulgaria, situated 22 km from Ruse, in close proximity to the village of Ivanovo, within the borders of… [Continue Reading]
The Tiger’s Nest, Monastery With Beautiful View
One of the most popular monasteries in Bhutan that cannot be missed is the Tiger’s Nest Monastery. You can also have a look at the numerous temple fortresses on the way. Tiger’s Monastery is also known as Taksang and it lies on a steep cliff. You have to walk for about 2 hours to reach… [Continue Reading]
Abandoned T’Spookhuys Restaurant
This is a very spooky restaurant in Belgium. Known as the T’Spookhuys Restaurant/Bar or also known as House of 1000 Spirits, this restaurant was abandoned in 2008. People just didn’t want to spend an evening in the place like this. After looking at these photos, you’ll believe in haunted houses. This bizarrely spooky restaurant had… [Continue Reading]
Unusual Hanging Temple
The Hanging Temple or Hanging Monastery is a temple built into a cliff (75 m or 246 ft above the ground) near Mount Heng in Hunyuan County, Shanxi province, China. The closest city is Datong, 64.23 kilometers to the northwest. Along with the Yungang Grottoes, the Hanging Temple is one of the main tourist attractions… [Continue Reading]
Roto-Rooter and Ghost Hunters Tackle Mystery
Reports of ghostly visitors pop up a lot in towns such as Salem, Massachusetts, especially when Halloween is around the corner. That is why Roto-Rooter and SyFy Channel’s “Ghost Hunter” Stars Jason Hawes and Grant Wilson collaborated on a book called “Chilling Tales from the Porcelain Seat”. America’s plumbers are the ones who have to… [Continue Reading]
Scary Halloween Yards
Halloween yard decorations make Halloween just that much more fun. Halloween yard decorations are really appealing and exciting for people of all ages. It does not matter whether you have a small yard or a very large yard. You can unleash all the creativity of yourself and allow the others that reside in the home… [Continue Reading]
Amazing Phuktal Monastery
One of the most isolated monastery, Phugtal Gompa or Phugtal Monastery is a monastery in south-eastern Zanskar, Ladakh in northern India. The monastery of Phuktal, supposedly one of the most spectacular monasteries in the whole Zanskar region. The Phuktal Monastery appears to be sprawling out from a huge cave high up in the steep cliff…. [Continue Reading]
The Maijishan Grottoes in China
The Maijishan Grottoes are a series of 194 caves cut in the side of the hill of Majishan in Tianshui, Gansu Province, northwest China. This example of rock cut architecture contains over 7,200 Buddhist sculptures and over 1,000 square meters of murals. Construction began in the Later Qin era. They were first properly explored in… [Continue Reading]
Ten Real-Life Vampires
It’s Anne Rice’s fault isn’t it? She started the whole sorry affair back in 1976 with her novel, Interview with the Vampire, a tale of dark gothic splendour, of tormented immortals, of beautiful, passionate men consumed by enthralling gothic melodrama. It captured the zeitgeist in a world dealing with ‘tainted love’ in the form of… [Continue Reading]
Amazing snow church in Germany
The church at Mitterfirmiansreut, nearly the Czech borderline, makes up more than twenty meters long and boasts an tower. It is built of about 1,400 cubic meters from ice and snow. The construction was bathed in blue light when it opened in the evening with a blessing from Dean Kajetan Steinbeisser. Constructors process the building… [Continue Reading]
Amazing Totem Pole
Totem pole is massive carvings from big trees, mostly Western Red Cedar, from cultures of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. The meanings of the figures on totem poles are as different as the cultures that build them. Totem poles may narrate familiar legends, clan lineages, or famous events. photo… [Continue Reading]
The Sedlec Ossuary
The Sedlec Ossuary (Czech: kostnice Sedlec) is a small Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic. The Sedlec Ossuary is artistically decorated between 40,000 and 70,000 human skeletons. Thus it is also known as the Church of Bones or as… [Continue Reading]
Bizarre Tarim mummies
The Tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, which date from 1900 BCE to 200 CE. Some of the mummies are frequently associated with the presence of the Indo-European Tocharian languages in the Tarim Basin, although the evidence is not totally conclusive. Research into the subject… [Continue Reading]