ARK NOVA – AN INFLATABLE CONCERT HALL IN JAPAn

From the outside it resembles a giant, plushy purple jelly bean, while on the inside it looks more like a glowing, colored seashell. Actually, this balloon-like form is the world's first inflatable concert hall, entitled "Ark Nova."

World's Largest Cave

Hang son Doong cave  is a cave in Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park, Vietnam. Currently the biggest known cave in the world, the cave is located near the Laos-Vietnam border (17°27'25.88"N 106°17'15.36"E). Inside is a large, fast-flowing underground river.

Lake Hillier- Pink lake in Australia

Lake Hillier is a pink-coloured lake on Middle Island in Western Australia. Middle island is the largest of the islands and islets that make up the Recherche Archipelago, a group of about 105 islands and over 1,200 ‘obstacles to shipping’.

Salar de Uyuni -worlds largest Miror                   

 3,800 square-miles of salt flat spread out across Bolivia's remote southwest. Salar de Uyuni is the largest salt flat in the world, an endless sheet of hexagonal tiles (created by the crystalline nature of the salt), dotted with pyramids of salt. Despite the desert dryness, freezing night temperatures, and fierce desert sun, this landscape is not devoid of life. Pink flamingos, ancient cacti, and rare hummingbirds all live in the Salar de Uyuni.

DESERT LOTUS RESORT MONGOLIA IN THE GOBI DESERT

         You have probably never considered the Inner Mongolia Region in China as a top holiday destination, but when you see the Desert Lotus Resort situated 563 km west of Beijing, in esoteric Xiang Sha Wan, or the “Sand Bay” of the Gobi Desert, you’ll definitely change your mind. The resort itself looks almost unearthly, like a space ship hovering in no man’s land. But, at closer inspection, you can see a structural compound that is anchored in the huge sand dunes by panels and steel support framework.

Why build a luxury hotel in the middle of a desert, you might ask? Considering that the area in which the resort is located is an industrial one (this is the site known for providing vast quantities of rare minerals), it made sense to build a beautiful hotel in the area which, otherwise, would be disregarded as appealing to tourists because of its industry.

Ice HOTEL IN SWEDEN 

This Icehotel in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden, just 120 miles inside the Arctic Circle is no gimmick. It’s a real, stunning work of art that is used as a hotel. And it justifies the name. Completely. It’s freezing cold and majestic.

World's Largest Swimming Pool -- off the coast of Chile

San Alfonso del Mar resort in Algarrobo, Chile, has the largest swimming pool in the world. It’s 3,324 ft (1,015 m) long and has a total area of 19.8 acres (8 hectares). The pool holds 66 million gallons (250 million liters) of water, as much as 6,000 normal pools. Incredible!

Plitvice Lakes National Park

                                          Plitvice Lakes National Park is the oldest national park in Southeast Europe and the largest national park in Croatia. The national park was founded in 1949 and is situated in the mountainous karst area of central Croatia, at the border to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The important north-south road connection, which passes through the national park area, connects the Croatian inland with the Adriatic coastal region. The protected area extends over 296.85 square kilometers (73,350 acres). About 90 percent of this area are part of Lika-Senj County, while the remaining 10 percent are part of Karlovac County.

National Library of Belarus

                Exists officially from September 15, 1922, but in 2006 is housed in a new building which is the subject of this article. The building is located in Minsk and is rhombicuboctahedron. It is 72 meters tall with 22 floors and provides space for 2,000 readers, and also has a conference hall with 500 seats. Viktor Kramarenko and Mikhail Vinogradov are architects of the building, which opened doors on 16 June 2006.

Rainbow Mountains In China’s Danxia Landform Geological Park  

A set of amazing pictures claim to show colorful rainbow mountains in China, which are supposedly formed naturally. Yes, it is a fact, these rainbow mountains are located in Zhangye Danxia Landform Geological Park, in Gansu Province of China.

 

Volkswagen’s Car Towers at Autostadt in 

Wolfsburg, Germany 

The Autostadt is a visitor attraction adjacent to the Volkswagen factory in Wolfs-burg  Germany, with a prime focus on automobiles. It features a museum, feature pavilions for the principal automobile brands in the Volkswagen Group, a customer center where customers can pick up new cars, and take a tour through the enormous factory, a guide to the evolution of roads, and cinema in a large sphere. One of the prime attraction at the Autostadt is the two gleaming car parking towers of glass and galvanized steel where cars are automatically moved from the Wolfs burg plant and on to the customer center where they are collected by their owners. 

 Each tower is 60 meter tall and houses 400 cars each and are the heart of vehicle delivery at the Autostadt. The two towers are connected to the Volkswagen factory by a 700 meter underground tunnel. A conveyor belt system transports finished cars directly from the adjacent manufacturing plant to the towers’ basement. From there they are lifted into position via mechanical arms that rotate and run along a central beam, moving vehicles in and out of their bays at a speed of two meters per second. When a customer purchases a car from Autostadt the car is picked from the silo and transported out to the customer without having driven a single meter, and the odometer is thus on “0″. 

Last year 175,893 new cars were handed over to their new owners. Currently, 37% of new VW buyers from Germany pick up their new vehicle from Wolfsburg, and there is space to build two more high-tech towers should that figure increase. 

San Boldo Pass

                       The San Boldo Pass (in Italian Passo San Boldo, formerly Passo Sant'Ubaldo and Umbaldopass) is a small mountain pass in the Italian Veneto region between the towns Trichiana [329 m (1,079 ft)] and  Tovena in the Cison di Valmarino region [272 m (892 ft)] over a distance of 17 km (11 mi).

The pass lies at the southern edge of the Alps and connects the Val Belluna with the Val Mareno over a height of 706 m (2,316 ft). The mountain pass is called the SP 635 and only one lane is passable, the traffic is regulated by several sets of lights. There is a speed limit of 30 km/h (19 mph) and a height limit of 3.2 m (10.5 ft), after buses were repeatedly stuck in the tunnel. There are five tunnels blasted into the rock with hairpin turns or loops, and six bridges.

The pass lies at the southern edge of the Alps and connects the Val Belluna with the Val Mareno over a height of 706 m (2,316 ft). The mountain pass is called the SP 635 and only one lane is passable, the traffic is regulated by several sets of lights. There is a speed limit of 30 km/h (19 mph) and a height limit of 3.2 m (10.5 ft), after buses were repeatedly stuck in the tunnel. There are five tunnels blasted into the rock with hairpin turns or loops, and six bridges.