Kellie’s Castle in Batu Gajah, Malaysia

Architecture can be beautiful and a thing to love. Nothing is more powerful than love and expressing love in architecture is divinely romantic. However, love and tragedy are reoccurring themes to this castle.


Kellie’s Castle in Batu Gajah, Malaysia

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Kellie’s Castle is Malaysia’s oldest castle and built for love by Scottish planter William Kellie Smith for his wife Agnes Smith. She missed home tremendously and had also blessed him with a son. Construction began in 1915, combining three architectural styles – Greco-Roman, Moorish, and Indian. A Spanish flu epidemic killed most of the 70 Indian construction workers. Kellie Smith built a Hindu temple near the castle to please the Indians and to restart construction. Kellie Smith left for England to fetch a lift for the castle tower, but he died shortly thereafter from pneumonia. Construction on the castle built for love was left uncompleted. The castle ruins are rumored to be haunted.

Most Incredible Bridges in the World - Gunung Mat Cincang Sky Bridge

At the top of the Gunung Mat Cincang mountain, (Langkawi)  in Malaysia, there is one of the most incredible bridges in the world. Even for the layperson, imagining that a huge structure such as this one is supported by one pilar only is already a breathtaking exercise; much like the nature surrounding Sky Bridge. The curvy bridge was finished in 2004 and trusts the weight of its boardwalk deck to eight steel cables tied to the edge of its big 87 metres high pilaster.

The Sky Bridge spreads across 125 metres and, thanks to an exclusive curvature offers different perspectives of landscapes to its visitors. The passage is 1,80 metres wide and has two triangular platforms with twice this size that act as viewing points, offering a spectacular view of the Andaman Sea and the Thai island of Tarutao.

The access can also be a spectacular experience, with the cable car, with round-shaped small cars that reach even higher in a station over 700 metres high. The rise and the fall seem to be, like everything relating to the bridge and the view from the top: unforgetable!

10 Most Magnificent Mosques in the World

Mosques are places where the followers of Islam worship. There are many of them around the world, ranging from very large Mosques that can seat 50,000 people to ones so small that they can only hold 10 people at a time. They are known for having amazing domes with crescents on top, tall and slender minarets that are usually situated at the corner of the building structure; amazing Art of Arabic Calligraphy and Quran verses in the Prayer Halls.

Here are the  Most Magnificent Mosques around the globe. You may have been fortunate enough to have already visited some of them.

Sultan Ahmed Mosque, Turkey

Sultan Ahmed Mosque is a historical mosque in Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey. The mosque is one of several mosques known as the Blue Mosque for the blue tiles adorning the walls of its interior.

Shah Faisal Mosque, Pakistan

The Faisal Mosque in Islamabad is the largest mosque in Pakistan and South Asia and the fourth largest mosque in the world. It was built in 1986.

Muhammad Ali Mosque, Egypt

Situated on the summit of the citadel, this is the largest mosque to be built in the first half of the 19th century. With its animated silhouette and twin minarets it is the most visible mosque in Cairo.

Shah Mosque, Iran

The Shah Mosque of Isfahan is one of the everlasting masterpieces of architecture in Iran.
It is registered along with the Naghsh-i Jahan Square as a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Al Aqsa Mosque, Palestine

It is one of the three most important sites in Islam, and a showcase for Islamic architecture and design from Umayyad to Ottoman times.

Putra Mosque, Malaysia

Facing the scenic Putrajaya Lake, the Putra Mosque is arguably Putrajaya’s most distinctive landmark and one of the most modern mosques in the world.

Mosque of Dearborn, USA

It was built by the Islamic community in USA in 1937.This is an architectural masterpiece and the largest mosque in North America.

Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque, Brunei

The mosque is classified as one of the most spectacular mosques in the Asia. The building was completed in 1958 and is an impressive example of modern Islamic architecture.

Al-Nabawi Mosque, Medina

The Mosque of the Prophet in Medina is the second holiest mosque in Islam and the second largest mosque in the world.

Haram Sharif Grand Mosque, Mecca

Masjid al-Ḥaram is the largest and the most magnificent mosque in the world.  Its design depicts the vastness and open mindedness of people of Islamic religion.

World Most Beautiful Lighthouses

Here is the list of the most beautiful, amazing lighthouses. These are so beautiful that if you are watching them at night you could stay without a breath.
1. Enoshima Lighthouse, Japan

In 2003 the Enoshima lighthouse in Japan was renovated, the stunning results of which you can see in the photo above. The spiral staircase to the top is surrounded only by a steel frame which is lit in different colors that change throughout the night, making it pretty hard to ignore. it sits on Enoshima island, a tiny piece of land just off the coast of Japan.
2. Torre De Hercules, Spain

The Torre De Hercules (tower of Hercules) is the only roman lighthouse still in use and holds the title of ‘oldest active lighthouse in the world’. It was built by the Romans in the 11th century and renovated in 1791 by a team led by engineer Eustaquio Giannini. The 185ft lighthouse still stands today and looks as sturdy as ever.
3. Madang Lighthouse, Papua New Guinea

 this still active lighthouse, also known as the coastwatchers monument, was built in 1959 as a memorial to the coastwatchers during the 2nd world war. apparently intended to resemble a giant torch, the four-finned base makes it look more like a rocket. either way, it’s an incredible look. as for the light itself, the ‘flame’ encased lamp at the top can produce an impressive 1,000,000 candlepower beam.
4. yokohama marine tower, japan

at a height of 348ft, the yokohama marine tower was, prior to its ‘temporary closure’, the tallest lighthouse in the world and could be seen by ships 20 miles away. built in 1958 as part of the 100th anniversary commemoration of the opening of the port of yokohama, the lighthouse immediately became a landmark, many people not realising it was actually a lighthouse due to it’s unconventional lattice tower design.
5. pigeon point lighthouse, u.s.

pigeon point lighthouse is perched on the edge of a cliff in california and at 115ft is one of the tallest in the united states. each november the picturesque lighthouse is visited by photographers eager to capture the annual lighting of the lens, seen in the photo above, a spectacle which shows off an extremely powerful lens composed of 1008 hand-polished lenses and prisms which help in providing 500,000 candlepower illumination.
6. low lighthouse, u.k.

at only 9 metres tall, the stunning ‘low lighthouse’ in burnham-on-sea is one of the smallest you’ll find. it was built in 1832 and is still used as a navigation tool, providing a white flash every 7.5 seconds from the window at the front in addition to a red, white or blue light, the colour differing depending on which direction it’s viewed from.