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Chahar Bagh Avenue
Isfahan, Iran
Address: the main boulevard beside the Naqsh e Jahan Square complex, parallel to and west of Ostandari Street. A beautiful, wide, tree lined boulevard that stretches from west of the Naqsh e Jahan Square down past the Isfahan Palace Complex, and onto the Si-o-Seh Pol, leading towards the Armenian Quarters of Jolfa to the south. It forms today the main pedestrian and vehicular artery within th...
Baha'i House of Worship
Chicago, United States
Technically located just north of Evanston in Wilmette, the Bahai House of Worship is the oldest Bahai house of worship in the world, and the only one in North America. The land was purchased in 1908 with Bahai contributions from around the world. The cornerstone was laid by Abdul-Baha himself in 1912, but construction did not begin until the 1920s. It was a protracted process, a...
Underground Railway Museum
Budapest, Hungary
Found in the pedestrian subway beneath V Deak Ferenc ter, next to the main ticket window, this museum exhibits the history of the capital’s four underground rail lines. A lot of showcase is devoted to Metro 1 which was the first underground railway established in Europe in 1896. Tel: 461 6500 Times: 10am-5pm Tue-Sun Prices: adult/child 270/220Ft ...
Library of Congress
Washington DC, United States
The world’s largest library, it is housed in three different buildings and contains around 120 million items, including 22 million books, in addition to manuscripts, maps, photographs, films and prints. The first map to include the word ‘America’ and Thomas Jefferson’s personal collection are also housed here. The visitors center in the Jefferson building shows a brief film and there are guided...