Shinkansen is the first high-speed rail network, operated by four Japan Railways Group companies. Built in 1964, it serves as the core of Japan’s rail transportation network. Since the initial Shinkansen ran at 210 km/h. Test run speeds have been 443 km/h in 1996 and up to a world record of 581 km/h in 2003. This network has carried over 6 billion passengers without a single major accident.
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The Arrabida Bridge is an arch bridge over the River Douro, Portugal. Built in 1963, its engineer and constructor is Edgar Cardoso. The bridge is 70 m above the water and spans 252 m. It carries a roadway 25 m wide and 615m long, which is the major access to the Oporto city. The reinforced-concrete arch is 52m tall and the plate rises up to 70m above water level. Arrabida Bridge was for sometime the widest single span concrete bridge in the world. Today this construction is 9th longest concrete arch bridge in the world. And now, I am leaving you to enjoy with the amazing photos of this spectacular bridge…. 
Sala Silvermine is one of the most unusual hotels of the world. It is situated in the middle of Sweden, 120 km from Stockholm. 155m underground it is not so much a hotel because there’s only bedroom and the underground staff consists of one butler, who prepares the guest’s breakfast and dinner.
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It’s a really strange building located in Suwon, South Korea, only 40km of Seoul. It’s the “first appearance largest toilet sculptures” organized and owned by Sim Jae-duck, chairman of the World Association of toilet. Today, around 40% of the world’s population doesn’t get to use hygienic toilets and he used this symbol of disease to bring forth the reality of two million people.
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Boyoma Falls also known as Stanley Falls consists of seven cataracts, each of them is 15m high. The falls extend for 100 km along of the Lualaba River, Congo. At the bottom of the falls, the Lualaba becomes the Congo River, which is the fifth-longest river in the world, and the second longest in Africa (4,375m). The total fall in the river’s elevation is about 61 m, and the seventh and largest cataract is 730 m wide. It has a total drop of 61 meters. It currently holds the record of water-flow, its average being 600,000 cubic feet a second. Its peak record is currently 1,834,000 cubic feet a second.
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