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Bata Shoe Museum
Toronto, Canada
Anyone with a shoe fetish will love this museum, which showcases the Bata family's 10,000-item collection. From the outside, the museum looks like a quirky shoebox. The main gallery outlines the history of footwear- ‘All about shoes’. The galleries house everything from 17th century French spiked clogs to crush chestnuts, to Elton John’s foot-high platforms. The galleries on the second floor conti...
Ibn Tulun Mosque
Cairo, Egypt
The Ibn Tulun Mosque is the top mosque to visit when in Cairo. This mosque, which is the largest and oldest in Cairo, was completed in 879 and still stands mostly intact. It was built using mud-brick and wood and covers 2.4 hectares (six acres). The mosque was built under the command of Ahmad ibn Tulun, who was the governor of Egypt from 868-884. Sharia el-Salibah, Islamic Cairo Openin...
Fish Market and Museum Bahari
Jakarta, Indonesia
Located at the mouth of the Ciliwung river, this market area bustles with activities related to the sea. The Museum Bahari situated at the harbor, is housed in restored Dutch warehouses dating back to the first trading post of the Dutch East Indies. Address: Jl. Pasar Ikan 1 Jakarta, Java 14440 Indonesia Tel: 62-021-669-3406 Address: Sunda Kelapa Harbor Old Batavia Jakarta, Java ...
German Museum of Architecture
Frankfurt, Germany
One of the foremost European museums of architecture, this Frankfurt museum presents a huge scope of architectural work for visitors to view. 24 large models are part of the “From the Prehistoric Hut to the Skyscraper,” which show just about the entire range of human settlement. The place holds about 200,000 plans and 600 models which includes works of the like of Giambattista Piranesi, Frank Geh...