The world is full of incredible, awe-inspiring wonders. So why do we only ever hear about the same ones over and over again? I mean, there’s only so many times you can look at a long wall, or a sandy triangle, or a bunch of rocks before getting bored. That’s why we’re going to mix things up here, and show you 10 amazing places that are so underappreciated even your most hipster friend won’t have heard of them. These are 10 Wonders of the World You Won’t Have Heard Of: 10) Las Pozas If you had insane amounts of money what would you do with it?
Would you go the Bill Gates route up set up charity after charity hoping to improve the world? Or would you go down the Dan Bilzerian road and throw it all into guns and poker? Well, in the 1940s Edward James knew exactly what he wanted to do. James was the heir to a giant railroad fortune, and a man so blue-blooded there were rumours that he was the illegitimate son of the Prince of Wales. In 1949 he decided to use his cash in the best way possible: building an insane surrealist kingdom in the Mexican jungle. Located at the exact middle of nowhere, the ridiculous sculpture park stretches out for 323 square kilometres. In it are dozens of buildings and sculptures so absurd they could make Salvador Dali’s moustache erect. The most famous of the collection are The Stairway to Heaven, The Temple of the Ducks, and The House With Three Floors That WIll In Fact Have Five Or Four Or Six. 35 years, $5 million, and probably a crate load of psychedelics later, Edward James passed away, and the project stopped being expanded. 9) Giant Buddha In Buddhist belief, Maitreya Buddha is a future leader who will one day come down to Earth to teach mankind tranquility. And what better way to celebrate a figure associated with peaceful reflection, than building a statue of him that looks like it’s about to get up and fight Godzilla? The Leshan Giant Buddha has been sitting in the Sichuan province of China since 713CE, when a local monk called Hai Tong decided to build it. You see the Minjiang river had a history of causing shipwrecks, and Hai Tong hoped that having a religious figure/transformer-sized stone monster on the banks would bless the waters. Although Tong never lived to see his statue finished in 803CE, it’s safe to say he’d be pleased with the result. At 71 metres tall, the buddha is comfortably the largest statue build in ancient times. Even with modern construction techniques only 17 statues bigger than it have ever been made. If you need a sense of this thing’s scale, just remember: The Leshen Buddha’s fingernail is around the size of a person. And in case you're wondering, yes. The river did calm down and become a valuable trade route. Of course, that may have less to do with divine providence, and more to do with the fact that building the Buddha took so much clay from the riverbed that it ended up significantly widening the river. 8) Kamchatka Ice Caves From the top, this block of ice in Russia just looks like... well a block of ice. But venture inside and it looks like someone’s holding a rave in a Bond villain’s lair. This icy acid trip is known as the Kamchatka ice cave, and it’s the accidental lovechild of a glacier and a volcano.. You see, the Mutnovsky volcano has a series of hot water springs gushing out from it. One of these springs starting flowing under a glacier, melting a path right through the heart of it. As the ice thinned unevenly overhead, sunlight started to pass through the roof at different strengths.
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