Life is full of adventure—all it takes is a little bravery and a dash of curiosity to open the door to surprise, excitement, and life-changing experiences that you’ll be telling your friends about for decades.
Of course, we’re talking about travel and all the amazing things you can see when you put your daily grind on hold and follow your feet (and your plane tickets) wherever they lead.
The ‘World Beauties and Wonders’ Facebook page, started by Anatolian Leo in Turkey, is a hugely popular effort that showcases some of the most beautiful sights you’ll see on your travels.
Today, we’re going to show you some of the best photos from the project.
Hopefully, this has motivated you to move outside of your comfort zone and explore what amazing opportunities await you.Scroll through the gallery, upvote your favorites, and tell us which ones you liked most and why.
Do you have any incredible tales to tell about your recent travels?
Tell us everything about them in the comments section.
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#1 Petra/Jordan
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#2 This Village Is Built On A Basaltic Cliff More Than 50m High And Spreads About 1 Kilometers Long. (Castellfollit De La Roca, Spain)
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#3 Hisashimichi Interchange! It’s A Japanese Highway Junction, Made With Minimum Loss To Environment. This Is A Seriously Impressive Engineering Masterpiece Situated In Hachioji, Near Tokyo, Japan
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#4 Inside Mysore Palace, India
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#5 Architectural Details Of The Column Of Marcus Aurelius.carved Military Scenes Line This 2nd Century Column In Rome,italy.(Rajib Rjarchaeology And Ancient Worlds)
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#6 One Of The Biggest Pre-Roman Mosaics Ever Found. Highly Elaborate, Meant To Show The Power Of The Kingdom Of Macedonia
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#7 A Step-Well Located In Rajasthan, India
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#8 The Vasa Warship Sank At The Occasion Of His Inaugural Journey In Stockholm In 1628. After 333 Years At The Bottom Of The Sea, The Impressive Warship Was Recovered And He Could Finally Continue His Journey. Today, The Vasa Is The Best-Preserved 17th Century Ships And Can Be Admired Within A Museum Structure Specially Built In Stockholm
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#9 Basilicata: Pietragalla Is The Town Of The Fantastic “Palmenti”, In The Local Dialect Called “Rutte”, Cave-Cellars Dug Into The Rock Still Used Today For The Conservation Of Wine
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#10 Lycian Rock Tombs Located In The Ancient City Of Myra. Antalya, Demre.turkey
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#11 The Japanese Have Been Producing Wood For 700 Years Without Cutting Down Trees. In The 14th Century, The Extraordinary Daisugi Technique Was Born In Japan. Indeed, The Daisugi Provide That These Trees Will Be Planted For Future Generations And Not Be Cut Down But Pruned As If They Were Giant Bonsai Trees; By Applying This Technique To Cedars, The Wood That Can Be Obtained Is Uniform, Straight And Without Knots, Practically Perfect For Construction
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#12 My Favorite Room In The Whole Castle! Hall Of Mirrors, Versailles, France
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#13 Cemetery In Taiwan
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#14 Sakya Monastery. The Library Was Discovered In Tibet Behind A Huge Wall (60 Meters Long And 10 Meters High). It Contains 84,000 Secret Manuscripts,which Include The History Of Mankind Over 1000 Years Old
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#15 Lower Part Of A Leg And Foot With Sandal Of The Over Life Size Statue Of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius(Reign 161-180 A.d.) Found At Sagalassos,turkey In 2008
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#16 Singapore’s Amazing Changi Airport
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#17 The Oldest House In France It’s Found In Aveyron, It’s 700 Years Old, It Was Built In The 13th Century And Belonged To A Jeanne
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#18 Ruins Of A Druid Temple In Yorkshire, England
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#19 Angkor Wat, Cambodia 7-Headed Snake (Naga) Statue. In Indian Mythology, Half-Serpent, Half-Human Beings Called Naga Were Seen As The Guardian Of Rivers, Wells, Springs And All Drinking Water
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#20 Medusa Sculpture (C. 2nd Century Ad) At Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli, Italy
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#21 Temple Of The Sun In Modhera, India, Built In 1026 Ad
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#22 Stone House In Celorico De Basto, Northern Portugal. It Is Called Casa Do Penedo (House Of The Rock) Because It Was Built From Four Large Boulders That Serve As The Foundation, Walls And Ceiling Of The House. Constructed In 1972
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#23 200-Year-Old Wooden Bridge In Dagestan, Built Without The Use Of A Single Nail
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#24 The Richly Decorated Khmer Temple Built Around 1190 Was The State Temple Of King Javayarman. Located North Of Angkor Wat, Cambodia In The Old Capital Of Angkor Thom, The Exterior Boasts Some Of The Most Beautiful Individual Stone Cut Statues In The World
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#25 Peoples Living In Northern Regions And In Severe Snowy Climates, Such As The Inuit, Carved Whalebone, Horn, And Ivory Sunglasses To Protect Their Glare
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#26 A Team Of Archaeologists LED By Professor Kutalmış Görkay, Of The University Of Ankara In Turkey, Has Unearthed Three Ancient Greek Mosaics In The Turkish City Of Zeugma, Near The Border With Syria
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#27 The 1500 Year Old Ark Of Bukhara In Uzbekistan Is An Absolutely Beautiful Representation Of Castle Architecture
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#28 First Image Shows An Ancient Greek Pelike Depicting A Woman Acrobat Shooting An Arrow With Her Feet. The Artifact Dates Back To The 4th Century Bc. Second Image Shows An Acrobatic Archer At The 2016 World Nomad Games Held In Kyrgyzstan
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#29 Medain Salih Is A Pre-Islamic Archaeological Site Located In The Medina Region Of Saudi Arabia. Medain Saleh Is Saudi Arabia’s First Unesco World Heritage Site
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#30 Hatshepsut Temple, Egypt
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#31 Several Years Ago, A Team Of Archaeologists Excavating The Megalithic Tomb Of Montelirio Tholos (Spain) Uncovered An Extraordinary Dagger Formed From Rock Crystal
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#32 Redhead Festival,dublin Ireland A Lot Of People Gather In This Place,united Only By The Fact That They Have Orange Hair
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#33 The Giant Of Pratolino Is A Gigantic Statue By Giambologna, A Masterpiece Of Sixteenth-Century Sculpture Located A Few Kilometers From Florence
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#34 Roman Mosaic Discovered Last Year In Old Town Of Hvar, Croatia
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#35 The Fresco ‘Leda E Il Cigno’ (Leda And The Swan) Discovered In The Archeological Area In Pompeii. 79 Ad
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#36 A Beautiful Bridge And Street In Rouen-Normandy-France
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#37 The Caryatid Porch Of The Erechtheion In Athens, Greece. The Temple As Seen Today Was Built Between 421 And 406 Bc. Its Architect May Have Been Mnesicles, And It Derived Its Name From A Shrine Dedicated To The Legendary Greek Hero Erichthonius
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#38 Ancient Roman Ruins In Tunisia – Baptism Basin Of Basilica Of St. Vitale, Sbeitla
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#39 The Terracotta Army Is A Collection Of Terracotta Sculptures Depicting The Armies Of Qin Shi Huang, The First Emperor Of China. It Is A Form Of Funerary Art Buried With The Emperor In 210–209 Bce With The Purpose Of Protecting The Emperor In His Afterlife
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#40 The Bridge That Comes From Sweden Turns Into A Tunnel Under The Sea And Reappears In Denmark; Both Countries United By This Wonderful Work Of Engineering
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#41 13th Century Crusader, Located On The Isle Of Skye In Scotland
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#42 This Medieval House, Located In The French Village Of Argentan, Built In 1509
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#43 Hohenzollern Castle, Germany Hohenzollern Castle Is A Historical Castle Located 50 Kilometers South Of Stuttgart, Germany. The Hohenzollern Dynasty Resided Here
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#44 Staircase In The Chambord Castle In France. Designed By The Great Legend Of High Renaissance Leonardo Da Vinci In 1516
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#45 Building A Mountain Road In China
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#46 Different Varieties Of Potato, Grown In Peru
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#47 Norway Kjeragbolten – The Stone Bridge
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#48 The Beautiful Vettuvan Koil In The South Indian State Of Tamil Nadu, Is A Temple Dedicated To The Hindu God Shiva. Built By The People Of The Pandya Dynasty, The Unfinished Rock-Cut Temple Was Carved In The 8th Century Ce
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#49 The Oldest Door Is Still In Use In Rome. Cast In Bronze For Emperor Hadrian’ Rebuilding, They Date From About 115 Ad
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#50 Old Flatiron House In Venice, Italy
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#51 A Roman Bathhouse Built By Emperor Vespasian Still In Use After 2,000 Years In Khenchela, Algeria
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#52 He Palazzo Colonna Is A Palatial Block Of Buildings In Central Rome, Italy, At The Base Of The Quirinal Hill, And Adjacent To The Church Of Santi Apostoli
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#53 The White Pocket Is An Isolated, Notoriously Hard-To-Reach Patch Of Sandstone Hidden Within The Desert Expanse Of Vermillion Cliffs National Monument Near The Arizona / Utah Border
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#54 The Aspendos Theater Is The Best Preserved Roman Theater, Even The Best Preserved Ancient Theater In The Whole World. The Theater Of Aspendos, Built On Two Hills, Leans On The Eastern Slope Of The Small Hill
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#55 An Argentine Farmer Found This 20,000-Year-Old Family Of Giant Armadillos (Glyptodon) Buried Near A River. They Were All Looking In The Same Direction, As If They Were Walking Towards Something, The Largest Being The Size Of A Volkswagen Beetle, It Is Estimated That They Weighed Around 2 Tons
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#56 Portuguese Royal Library – Located In Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
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#57 The Indian Air Force Used Elephant Helicopters For Ceremonial Flights During The 70s
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#58 Workers Installing A Greek Revival Architectural Column On The Civil Courts Building In St. Louis, Missouri, 1928
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#59 High In The Jungle Mountains Of Flores Island In Indonesia At An Altitude Of 4,200 Ft. Is One Of The Last Remaining Ancient And Isolated Villages In The World. Called Wae Rebo, The Village Has Been Occupied By The Manggaraian People For Almost 2,000 Years
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#60 Staring Down Into The “Black Crack” On The White Rim Trail In Canyonlands National Park
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#61 Emperor’s Corridor, Czech Republic
#62 Cappadocia/Turkey
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#63 This Is The Exact Recreation Of The Colossus Statue Of Rhodes, Built On Rhodes Island (Greece) In 226 Bc And Destroyed By An Earthquake In 292 Bc. It Is Considered One Of The Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World
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#64 At The Southwestern End Of The Korean Peninsula, In The Jeollanam-Do Region, There Is A “Folk Village” In Which The Inhabitants Retain The Way Of Life Of The Past
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#65 Interior Of The Temple Of Abu Simbel
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#66 On November 12, 1833, There Was A Meteor Shower So Intense That It Was Possible To See Up To 100,000 Meteors Crossing The Sky Every Hour. At The Time, Many Thought It Was The End Of The World, So Much So That It Inspired This Woodcut By Adolf Vollmy
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#67 Where Roofs And Streets Become One: Iran’s Village Of Sar Agha Seyed Agha Seyed Is A Village In Miankuh-E Moguyi Rural District, In The Central District Of Kuhrang County, Chaharmahal And Bakhtiari Province, Iran. At The 2006 Census, Its Population Was 1,360, In 208 Families
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#68 Tianmen Mountain Is Located In Hunan Province, China, Northwest Of Zhangjiajie National Park. In 2016, The Top Wooden Walkway Was Renovated As A 6.5 Cm Thick 100-Meter Glass Path
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#69 Syrian Archaeologist Khaled Al Asaad He Gave 50 Years To Palmyra And Was Beheaded Six Years Ago Today For The Cultural Heritage To Which He Devoted His Life
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#70 Oldest Ziggurat In History, It Is The Pyramid Of The Ziggurat Of Uruk، The Original Pyramidal Structure Dates Back To The Sumerians Around 4000 Bc And The White Temple Was Built Over The Ziggurat Of Uruk In 3500 Bc
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#71 Skeletons Of A 2000 Year Old Thracian Chariot. Found In Karanovo, Bulgaria
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