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Gustav III Museum in Stockholm's Royal Palace, Sweden These statues tell the story of a lifetime.. The stories of the past, the tales of unending festivities and never-resting place (become the symbol of culture relics), where merriment and laughter still bounce back, through these stone cold walls and marble floors when the rest of the world goes to slumber. The ghosts of the past (emperors and empresses) still embrace this place when no one is there to witness them and nobody is there to hear their wails of sorrow and regrets. This place tells the tales of old times..    King Gustav III of Sweden has been criticized for his extravagant life, but he has a natural appreciation for Italian marble sculpture.  Two years after Gustav's death, in 1794, the Swedish royal family opened the Stockholm Royal Palace to the public, establishing one of the oldest museums in Europe.  This is the Gustav III Museum of Cultural Relics. 

Fairy chimneys and cave dwellings in Uçhisar, Cappadocia, Turkey And to think that I saw it in Cappadocia The fantastical 'fairy chimneys' found in central Turkey's historic Cappadocia region were formed by a collision of the natural and the man-made - and they form a scene that seems straight out of a Dr. Seuss illustration. The landforms were created when volcanoes deposited mounds of soft, porous rock called tuff, which was later covered with hard basalt. In the 10th century (though possibly starting up to 5,000 years ago) humans excavated the tuff to create caves and catacombs that could fit thousands of dwellers. Through not only the astonishing ruins but the many 'cave hotels' hewn into rock in the city of Göreme, the memory of those ingenious city planners lives on. (© Ivan Kmit/Alam)