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Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts
Hanoi, Vietnam
Open daily from 8:30am to 5pm the museum the Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts features Vietnamese art of the 20th century, up to the 1970s. Much of the art is outstanding with entire rooms devoted to the Vietnamese style of lacquer and silk painting, woodblock, and folk art, wile the gift shop has some modern works of well-known artists for sale. Address: 66 Nguyen Thai Hoc, Hanoi ...
Hagia Sophia
Istanbul, Turkey
The first iteration of Hagia Sophia was built in 306AD to serve as Constantinople's Cathedral, but burned down in 404. Version two also burned down too, though several marble slabs remain. Construction on the current version began in 532 and lasted five years. It was built during the apogee of the Byzantine Empire under Emperor Justinian and you can really tell they went all out....
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...
Marathon Battlefield and Burial Mound
Athens, Greece
This is the place where the Persian army of 24,000 men fought against and were defeated by the Athenian Army comprising of just 1000 men. The battle is famed for soon after a messenger was dispatched who ran all the way to Athens to inform the people of victory. After the long run the messenger could only sum up the energy to say: "Victory"after which he died. The 192 Athenians killed we...