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New York, Guggenheim Museum

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Founded in 1937, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a modern art museum located on the Upper East Side in New York City. It is the best-known of several museums owned and/or operated by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and is often called simply The Guggenheim. It is one of the best-known museums in New York City.

Originally called “The Museum of Non-Objective Painting”, the Guggenheim was founded to showcase avant-garde art by early modernists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian. It moved to its present location, at the corners of 89th Street and Fifth Avenue (overlooking Central Park), in 1959, when Frank Lloyd Wright’s design for the site was completed.

GPS location: 40°46′58.71″N, 73°57′32.37″W

Leaning Tower of Pisa, Pisa

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Feb 132007

The Leaning Tower of Pisa (Italian: Torre pendente di Pisa) or simply The Tower of Pisa (La Torre di Pisa) is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of the cathedral of the Italian city of Pisa. It is situated behind the Cathedral and it is the third structure in Pisa’s Campo dei Miracoli (field of Miracles).

Although intended to stand vertically, the tower began leaning to the southeast soon after the onset of construction in 1173 due to a poorly laid foundation and loose substrate that has allowed the foundation to shift.

The height of the tower is 55.86 m (183.27 ft) from the ground on the lowest side and 56.70 m (186.02 ft) on the highest side. The width of the walls at the base is 4.09 m (13.42 ft) and at the top 2.48 m (8.14 ft). Its weight is estimated at 14,500 tonnes. The tower has 294 steps.

Leaning Tower of Pisa GPS location: 43.7231° N 10.3964° E

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Musee du Louvre, Paris

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Feb 132007

France’s Louvre Museum has the distinction of having the world’s most famous painting: Mona Lisa by the Italian Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci. Mona Lisa’s subtle, enigmatic smile and stare (see photo) have intrigued billions.

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The celebrated Hellenistic marble statues Venus de Milo and Winged Victory of Samothrace are also in the Louvre Museum, as are tens of thousands of other masterpieces from around the globe covering 5,000 years. They are displayed in over 10 kilometers (6 miles) of galleries.
Location: Palais Royal, Musée du Louvre, 75001 Paris, France
Musee du Louvre, Paris GPS coordinates: 48° 51′ 37.42″ N, 2° 20′ 15.35″ E

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