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Journey Around The World In Under 5 Minutes

I have long been working on a film about a man who walks around the world. Maybe the walking has been the problem. It’s slow food for a fast food world. Perhaps the film should have been this instead…

17 Countries. 343 Days. 6237 Photographs.

WARNING: this short will make you want to quit your day job and travel.

Thanks to ThisIsColossal for the tip.

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The World’s Shortest Escalator

Following up on yesterday’s post, now you can ride the world’s shortest escalator, and you don’t have to travel to Japan to do it! Ride it virtually here, all four steps of it in six seconds.

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The World’s Longest Escalator

And you don’t need to go all the way to Moscow to ride it.  Ride it virtually here! All in 3:11 minutes!

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The Taj Mahal: Perhaps Better Than The Lego Model

The Lego version has already made it into the bowl, so why not the virtual tour now?

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Where The Rules Are Made

Are you going to make the rules or are you going to break the rules?  Okay, so you don’t have to decide that today.  We get it, but still, shouldn’t everyone get a peak inside and see how it’s done.  Well, we are not going to do that.   The best we can do today is go take a look inside the US Capitol.  How about another virtual tour?

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Let’s Go To The Smithsonian’s Museum Of Natural History

The comprehensive virtual tour allows the visitor to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum. The visitor can navigate from room to room either by using a floor map or by following blue arrow links connecting the rooms. Camera icons indicate hotspots where the visitor can get a close-up on a particular object or exhibit panel.

Check it out here.
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Seven Great Places To Go

For now we just have to put them on the To Do List, but wouldn’t it be great if we had a transpoder to take us there right now. Or a Tardis. I guess we will have to settle for a virtual 360 degree tour of Seven Wonders