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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%
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	98%
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	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%
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	97%
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%
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	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%
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%
Hacienda Nápoles	Pablo Escobar once lived in this sprawling estate... strolling through his zoo filled with hippos and exotic birds	Colombia	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	96%
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	95%
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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