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Lincoln Memorial
The Lincoln Memorial is a US national memorial honoring President Abraham Lincoln, on the western end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The marble statue of Lincoln seated is 5.8 m tall.
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Loch Ness
Loch Ness is a large freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands, extending for 37 km. It contains more fresh water than all the lakes of England and Wales combined and is famous for the legendary Loch Ness Monster.
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Louvre Museum
The Louvre is the world's most-visited museum, located in central Paris, housing over 35,000 works of art including the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and Winged Victory of Samothrace.
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Machu Picchu
Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel situated on a 2,430 m mountain ridge above the Sacred Valley. It was built as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti and was abandoned a century later during the Spanish conquest.
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Mecca – Kaaba
The Kaaba is a building at the centre of Islam's most important mosque, the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is the most sacred site in Islam and the direction of prayer (qibla) for Muslims worldwide.
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Mont Saint-Michel
Mont Saint-Michel is a tidal island and mainland commune in Normandy, France, with a Benedictine abbey on top of a 92-metre-high rock. It is one of France's most-visited heritage sites.
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Mosque of Cordoba
The Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba is a medieval Islamic mosque, converted into a Catholic cathedral in 1236 after the Reconquista. It is famous for its 856 columns of jasper, onyx, marble, and granite, with red-and-white-striped arches.
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Mount Everest
Mount Everest is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, on the China-Nepal border, with its summit at 8,848.86 m above sea level. It was first summited by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953.
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Mount Fuji
Mount Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan and an active stratovolcano, last erupted in 1707-1708. Its almost-perfect cone has been a sacred symbol and an artistic inspiration for centuries.