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Mystic America: Machu Picchu, Peru ; Gold necklace of the Old Lord of Sipan, Peru ; Inca salt pans, Peru ; The mud city of Chan Chan, Peru ; The Nazca Lines, Peru ; Moai of Easter Island ; Umahara headdress of the Hikbatsa tribe, Brazil ; Christ the redeemer, Rio de Janerio, Brazil -- Promised Lands: The tomb of King Pakal, Palenque, Mexico ; Rivera's "Man, controller of the universe," Mexico ; The Giants of Tula, Mexico ; Mesa Verde, Colorado, USA ; 1851 pattern of Navy Colt, Colorado, USA ; Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's house, Virginia, USA ; The Seagram Building, New York ; The Statue of Liberty, New York -- The spirit of the nations: Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney Opera House of St. James's Church, Australia ; Aboriginal rock art, Kakadu, Australia ; Borobudur Buddhist Temple, Java ; Spirit houses of Torajaland, Sulawesi ; The Tau Tau -- images of the dead, Sulawesi ; Angkor Wat, Cambodia ; Stone faces of Bayon, Angkor Thom ; Golden elephant of Ayatthaya, Thailand -- Hidden worlds: Samurai sword, Japan ; Ryaonji Garden, Kyoto ; Himeji Castle, Japan ; The Great Wall of China ; The Forbidden City, Beijing ; Chinese porcelain, Shanghai ; The Grounds of the Summer Palace, Beijing ; The Terracotta Army, Xi'an -- Heat and passion: The goddess Durga, Calcutta, India ; The palace of Sigiriya, Sri Lanka ; The Great Buddha of Polonnaruwa ; The Buddha's Tooth, Kandy, Sri Lanka ; Meenakshi Temple at Madurai, India ; The spices of Cochin ; The Jantar Mantar Observatory, Jaipur ; The Taj Mahal, Agra -- Trade routes: Smarkand, Uzbekistan ; Old City of Bukhara ; Fire Temple, Baku, Azerbaijan ; Bisitun cuneiform, Iran ; Emam Mosque, Isfahan, Iran ; Persepolis, Iran ; Persian carpets, Shiraz, Iran ; Damascus souk, Syria -- Holy lands: Holy Land mosaics, Jordan ; Petra, Jordan ; Temple Mount, Jerusalem, Israel ; The Axum Stelae, Ethiopia ; Illuminated manuscripts, Debre Damo, Ethiopia ; The Lalibela Cross, Ethiopia ; Rock churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia -- Water and life: Djenne Mosque, Mali ; The Dogon Mask, Bandiagara, Mali ; Circumcision paintings, Songho, Mali ; Leptis Magna, Libya ; Berber Granary, Qasr al-Hajj, Libya ; Tutankhamen's mask, Cairo, Egypt ; The Great Pyramid, Giza, Egypt ; Queen Nefertari's tomb paintings, Luxor, Egypt ; The Temple of Horus, Edfu, Egypt -- Man and nature: Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey ; Underground city of Goreme, Turkey ; The Moscow Metro, Russia ; Solovki Monastery, Archangel, Russia ; Peter the Great's Cabin, St. Petersburg, Russia ; Wieliczka salt mine, Poland ; Volkswagen Beetle, Munich, Germany ; Bauhaus chair, Dessau, Germany ; Mostar Bridge, Bosnia -- The old world: The Parthenon, Athens, Greece ; The Pantheon, Rome, Italy ; The Medici Chapel, Florence, Italy ; The Grand Canal, Venice, Italy ; Picasso's 'Guernica', Madrid, Spain ; The Alhambra, Granada, Spain ; Chartres Cathedral, France

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