Countries by Atlas Obscura Description - Statistics

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Attraction Description Country % Correct
Habsburg Imperial Crypt Twelve emperors, 18 empresses, and 113 other members of the Habsburg family are interred in the Imperial Crypt (Kaisergruft) in Vienna Austria
98%
Urnes Stave Church An old Viking church that has looked over the neighboring fjord for going on 900 years Norway
98%
Tombs of the Sultans Quite literally overshadowed by what is possibly Istanbul’s most iconic sight, the tombs date from as early as 1574 and make extraordinary use of tilework, calligraphy, and paintwork Turkey
98%
Old Dragon's Head Old Dragon’s Head is considered to be the start of the Great Wall, built during the Ming Dynasty, and it does resemble a dragon resting its weary head by the Bohai Sea China
97%
Château d'If A fortress complex that was made famous by being featured as a location in the literary classic, The Count of Monte Cristo France
97%
Victory Over America Palace Saddam Hussein built the monument to commemorate his very dubious “victory” over the United States in the 1991 Gulf War Iraq
97%
Genghis Khan Statue Complex In 2008, a giant statue of Khan riding a horse was erected... at 40 meters high, it is the world’s largest equestrian statue Mongolia
97%
Namche Bazaar If you find yourself making the trek to the top of Everest be sure to stop in the mercantile community and pamper yourself Nepal
97%
Ta Prohm When Angkor was rediscovered in the early 20th century... all of the temples had become overgrown–but none so spectacularly as Ta Prohm Cambodia
96%
Hacienda Nápoles Pablo Escobar once lived in this sprawling estate... strolling through his zoo filled with hippos and exotic birds Colombia
96%
Coppelia Coppelia was originally built in 1966 at the behest of Castro himself, who... sought to produce more quality flavors of ice cream than America Cuba
96%
The Giant Ghibli Clock Designed by Hayao Miyazaki... while it’s not exactly drawn from his 2004 film Howl’s Moving Castle, it’s been likened to the aesthetic of the anime classic Japan
96%
Salt Pans of Maras Cascading down a hillside valley like uneven steps, the Salinas de Maras were first created sometime in the 1400s by the Incas Peru
95%
Boulders Beach Penguin Sanctuary This beautiful beach is the home of over 2,000 endangered African penguins, and one of the few mainland penguin colonies in the world South Africa
94%
Corvin Castle Tourists are told that Vlad the Impaler spent some seven years in the dungeons of Corvin Castle, a stay which resulted in his eventual madness Romania
93%
Baikonur Cosmodrome The Cosmodrome was built in the 1950s as a secret missile testing site and as the base of operations for the Soviet space program Kazakhstan
90%
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