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Had this link pop up on a site today, and thought that it looked interesting.

39 more pictures at the link to keep us learning. Love lists or hate them, at least they keep us talking in what may be a hard news day.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "The most wonderful views on Earth, ranked"

Number one, your wife and daughter holding one's newborn child.

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24: Lake Bled, Slovenia

A church on an island on a teal lake – views don’t come much more picture-perfect than those over Lake Bled, in the Slovenian resort town of the same name. The islet, in the center of the lake, is dominated by the medieval Pilgrimage Church of the Assumption of Mary or ‘Lady of the Lake’, whose tower peeps through the trees. Throw in a dramatic backdrop of the Julian Alps and the Karawanks mountain range, and you have a fairy-tale scene.

I found several pictures of places that I haven't heard of. This is in the Balkans.

[bigbob]

Well finally a list everyone can agree on and no one will argue with ;-)

[ProtectOurFreedom]

EGADS!! Looks like a beginner got some new image processing software and turned the HDR knob up to 11. What an awful image.

[Tench_Coxe]

I always thought Havasu Falls was striking:

[Larry Lucido]

When will H E Pennypacker build that rollercoaster at Macho Pichu?

[ComputerGuy]

Good stuff!

[freefdny]

Great stuff. Thanks for posting.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

#27: That Wanaka Tree, New Zealand. "Set your alarm and get there early to beat the selfie stick crowds"

LOL...many is the time we've done that!

Banff National Park in Canada has banned private cars from Moraine Lake in the Canadian Rockies, so now you board a bus to get up there. What do you find when you arrive? Lots more buses and hordes of people scurrying up to the "rock pile" (a huge moraine and talus pile of rocks). People were all scouting out the best spot and there were so many selfie sticks it looked like a forest. But with a bit of bouldering, my wife and I found a distant spot with a spectacular view (generally, people never walk very far).

This image I took at sunrise looks processed, but it's straight from the camera! We were there a month ago tomorrow. I think the slightly hazy dawn sky helped create the magnificent reflection of the mountains on the lake.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

By the way, thanks for posting this! We’ve travelled quite a bit (and I did a lot of world traveling before we were married), and I’ve only been to:

36: Bryce Canyon, Utah, USA
33: Cloud Gate, Illinois, USA (I’m cheating here because I’ve been to that spot, but before the sculpture was installed).
26: Crater Lake, Oregon, USA
25: Golden Gate Bridge, California, USA
23: Moraine Lake, Canada (LOL — I spotted this after I posted about our trip there a month ago)
15: Top of the Rock, New York, USA (cheating again because we’ve been to Rock Center for the Christmas ice skating and to the top Empire State Building, but not to the top of the Rock)
14: Matterhorn, Switzerland (been there twice and hiked up to the mountain huts)
6: Grand Canyon South Rim, Arizona, USA (stay at El Tovar!)
3: Great Wall of China, China (I was there in Spring 1977 before China was opened to tourists)

That leaves 31 more of them I need to go see. I better get cracking since I’m 73 years old.

[laplata]

Thank you for posting.

[1FreeAmerican]

I lived in Lake Tahoe for 12 years and the number of incredible views is amazing. There is nothing like skiing down Heavenly Valley on a blue bird day when the entire basin is coated in snow. I'm sure I've got a shot somewhere...

[wardaddy]

Rio from Pao do Azucar to Sao Conrado

From Leme and Copacabana to Leblon and ipanema with Christ statue in back is a contender

Glacier national park and Patagonia mountains too

Cobalt inky seas of the deep Caribbean at sunset

Santa Fe downtown with fresh snow

Joshua Tree

London in the 80s

Manhattan skyline from the triboro

Paris or Rome period

Provence with keeps and castles dotting hilltops like a children book inside cover art from the 50s

550 from Durango to Ouray colorado in winter

Mossy laden southern hardwoods swamp with cypress and full bellied ducks swarming in at dawn

Cockpit country or Blue mountain peak of Jamaica laden in mist

It’s a beautiful world

[wardaddy]

Villa de Lieba Colombia near Tunis

I forgot about that one

Special high Andes colonial village

Bolivar was there a bit

[Kommodor]

Ping to check out some cool pictures later :)