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Monteriggioni is one of the best preserved walled Medieval towns in Tuscany, Italy. The fortified village was built by the Sienese between 1214 and 1219 to defend against the Florentines, the town is also popular in pop culture for its prominent feature in the video game Assassin’s Creed II

The first selfie in space by Buzz Aldrin 1966, Aldrin used a Hasselblad camera to capture this image while performing an extravehicular activity (EVA) during the Gemini 12 mission

The Pergamon Ancient Theater is the steepest theater in the world, with an incline of about 70 degrees. It is said that the Hellenistic theater had a capacity of 10,000 people, and the cavea (seating area) was the steepest in the ancient world

The sharp dividing line between a lush forest and the white sand dunes of Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil, the park was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2024 for its exceptional geological significance and natural beauty

A futuristic space colony, as imagined by NASA artist Rick Guidice in the 1970s, the habitat utilizes rotation to simulate Earth’s gravity for its inhabitants and large mirrors were designed to capture sunlight and reflect it into the interior of the colony

A man wears the “Iron Man” pressurized diving suit, It had pressure protection systems and the suit was constructed of iron and weighed approximately 540 pounds (245 kg) to withstand deep-sea pressures.

The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter it up until a couple was found having sex inside it; now its jaws are opened only for special occasions like Swedish election days

Globus INK, Soviet-era electromechanical space navigation computer used in the 1960s the system calculated orbital parameters using an intricate internal clockwork mechanism comprising over 500 gears, cams, and differentials