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The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam houses the largest collection of artworks by Vincent van Gogh.

The "Secret Annex" is where the famous Holocaust victim Anne Frank lived with her family and four other people in hiding for two years during the Second World War. It's also where she wrote her famous diary.

Neuschwanstein Castle is a 19th-century palace on a rugged hill in southwest Bavaria, Germany. This fairytale look of the Neuschwanstein castle inspired Walt Disney to create the Magic Kingdom.

Jungfraujoch is a unique year-round mountain destination in Switzerland. It's part of the UNESCO World Heritage site called Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch. Jungfraujoch also referred to as Top of Europe, is a place where the highest railway station in Europe (3,454 m) is located.

W. A. Mozart was born in 1756 in the "Hagenauer Haus" at No. 9 Getreidegasse in Salzburg. Today, Mozart's Birthplace is one of the most visited museums in Austria and is an absolute highlight, above all for Mozart fans.

Travel back through 3,000 years of Egyptian history and come face-to-face with the Rosetta Stone and the Statue of Ramesses II. The objects in the Egyptian sculpture gallery represent three millennia of pharaonic history.

The Colosseum is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is still the largest standing amphitheatre in the world today, despite its age (it's almost 2,000 years old!).

The Cliffs of Moher are sea cliffs located at the southwestern edge of the Burren region in County Clare, Ireland. They're one of Ireland's most popular and well-known sights.

The Palace of Versailles was the principal royal residence of France from 1682, under Louis XIV, until the start of the French Revolution in 1789, under Louis XVI.

Lake Bogoria in Kenya is pink because of its flamingo population; tens of thousands of them come here each year. The lake is dotted with hot springs and geysers on the western shore, which is caused by geothermal activity.

Victoria Falls is a waterfall on the Zambezi River in southern Africa, which provides habitat for several unique species of plants and animals. It is located on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe and is considered to be one of the world's largest waterfalls due to its width of 5,603 feet.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the pyramids in the Giza pyramid complex bordering present-day Giza in Greater Cairo, Egypt. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact.

The Namib is a coastal desert in Namibia, in southern Africa. Having endured arid or semi-arid conditions for roughly 55–80 million years, the Namib may be the oldest desert in the world.

This live camera allows you to watch Kenya’s biggest wildlife live in action. Visit the watering hole to see bathing hippos and peeking crocodiles, plus thirsty giraffes, zebras and gazelles. If you’re lucky, you may even see an elephant or a leopard coming over for a drink.

View 360° panoramic images of the Alamo Shrine and grounds where for 13 days in 1836, the Battle of the Alamo took place.

Go on a virtual tour of the Statue of Liberty. The colossal statue was gifted to the United States by France in the late 19th century and would go on to come one of America's most cherished and iconic symbols.

The White House has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 1800. There are a whopping 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, and 6 levels in the Residence (the private quarters of the White House where the president lives with his family).

Experience Montana's Glacier National Park's awe-inspiring peaks, untouched forests, pristine alpine meadows, and breathtaking lakes with this aerial video.

This groundbreaking, interactive tour allows online visitors to experience over 200 different locations within California's Yosemite National Park and its surrounding areas. It’s famed for its giant, ancient sequoia trees, and for Tunnel View, the iconic vista of towering Bridalveil Fall and the granite cliffs of El Capitan and Half Dome.

Kenai Fjords National Park is an American national park that maintains the Harding Icefield, its outflowing glaciers, and coastal fjords and islands. The park covers an area of 669,984 acres on the Kenai Peninsula in south-central Alaska, west of the town of Seward.

Go on this incredible virtual tour of the Nahuku Lava Tube, a cave formed by flowing lava. This tour also offers an amazing view of volcanic coastal cliffs and allows viewers to fly over an active volcano.

Dry Tortugas National Park is in the Gulf of Mexico, west of Key West, Florida. It comprises 7 islands, plus protected coral reefs. Garden Key is home to beaches and the 19th-century Fort Jefferson. Loggerhead Key has a lighthouse and sea turtles.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a massive sculpture carved into Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills region of South Dakota. Completed in 1941, the sculpture's roughly 60-ft.-high granite faces depict U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln

Located at the foot of the Khumbu Glacier, Everest Base Camp is encircled by some of the most iconic peaks on Earth. There are two base camps on Mount Everest, on opposite sides of the mountains: South Base Camp is in Nepal at an altitude of 17,598 feet, while North Base Camp is in Tibet, China at 16,896 feet.

Explore the wonders of Angkor, Cambodia, where thousand-year-old temples lie hidden in the jungle, and ancient cities and roads trace a path to the lost kingdoms of the Khmer empire. The Ta Prohm temple was the location for Laura Croft: Tomb Raider.

Virtually travel to Vietnam by making these three simple recipes you can try out at home.

Built between 1631 and 1648 by order of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife, the Taj Mahal, an immense mausoleum of white marble, is one of the most recognizable landmarks in the world. This virtual tour allows you to examine up close the mausoleum's exterior, its intricate interior, and enjoy views of the structure from across the Yamuna River and up above.

The palace has been the official residence of the Kings of Siam since 1782 (Thailand used to be known as Siam). Within the palace complex are several impressive buildings including Wat Phra Kaew (Temple of the Emerald Buddha), which contains the small but famous and greatly revered Emerald Buddha that dates back to the 14th century.

Walk through the famous 1,000 Torii gates of Kyoto's Fushimi Inari Shrine (Inari is the Shinto god of rice, Shinto ). Foxes are thought to be Inari's messengers, resulting in many fox statues across the shrine grounds.

The Great Ball Court at Chichen Itza is the largest playing field in Mesoamerica. It measures 551 by 230 feet and the walls are 26 feet high. Here the game of Pok-a-Tok was played, the most popular and highly revered sport among the Maya, a cross between soccer and basketball although extremely difficult to play! It's believed that in Pok-a-Tok the losing side's leader (and perhaps the whole team) was sometimes killed and sacrificed to the gods.

Machu Picchu is an Incan citadel set high in the Andes Mountains in Peru. Built in the 15th century and later abandoned, it’s renowned for its sophisticated dry-stone walls that fuse huge blocks without the use of mortar, intriguing buildings that play on astronomical alignments and panoramic views. Its exact former use remains a mystery. It was "discovered" in 1911 by an American explorer.

The Galápagos Islands is a volcanic archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. It's considered one of the world's foremost destinations for wildlife-viewing. A province of Ecuador, it lies about 1,000km off its coast. The Galápagos Islands are home to hundreds of endemic wildlife species, found nowhere else on earth. Charles Darwin visited in 1835, and his observation of Galápagos' species later inspired his theory of evolution

Constructed between 1922 and 1931, the Christ the Redeemer statue is 98 ft high, excluding its 26 ft pedestal. The arms stretch 92 ft wide. The statue is located at the peak of the 2,300 ft Corcovado mountain in the Tijuca Forest National Park overlooking the city of Rio de Janeiro. A symbol of Christianity across the world, the statue has also become a cultural icon of both Rio de Janeiro and Brazil, and was voted as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World

Covering 97 square miles of Los Glaciares national park, the Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina is fed by the melting waters of the south Patagonian ice fields in the Andes. This video tour takes you around the varied landscape of the protected Parque Patagonia, passing turquoise rapids, a rainbow and a pack of guanacos (a distant relative of the llama) roaming the plains.