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Rome’s Trevi Fountain is a favorite with tourists, movie directors and romantics, but did you know it’s also a popular wishing well? Discover why coin-tossing is traditional at this Baroque masterpiece — and more Cool Stuff — in this episode.
No, it’s a salt flat in Bolivia. It’s rainy season, so the endless expanse of barren ground has filled in like a puddle on a sidewalk. The water’s shallow — about 6 inches deep. So when you walk across it, you look like you’re pulling that trick Jesus pulled. To make matters even more heavenly, the sky and its puffy white clouds are mirrored rather perfectly in the water. It’s hard to tell which is salt-flat-puddle and which is sunny sky. And whether you’re walking on air.
Would you drive a Road of Death?
by Amanda Arnold | November 12, 2009
Three words you don’t want to hear when you get into the car with someone: “You will die.”
For one thing, if you’re on Bolivia’s “Road of Death,” they’re just redundant. For another, they’re plausible. Two hundred to 300 people die each year on the North Yungas Road that runs from the Amazon forest to Bolivia’s capital of La Paz. Why?
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