First action movie, fiction film, and American Western - The 1903 film The Great Train Robbery was 10 minutes long and had 14 scenes.

First road map - Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar commissioned the first known road maps to be created, not surprisingly because the Romans were famous for the roads they built. It took nearly twenty years to complete the first map!

First animal to receive two bionic leg implants - In June 2010 Oscar the cat received his bionic limbs after losing them to a combine harvester.

First automatic weapon - In 1883 Sir Hiram Maxim created the Maxim gun. The world’s first machine gun would go on to revolutionize warfare and was used in both World Wars.

First extraterrestrial tornadoes (dust devils) - So it’s obviously not the first time a tornado touched down on another planet but when the Viking spacecraft recorded dust devils on Mars’s surface in the 1970s it was the first time we had proof!

First human to be killed by a robot - On January 25 1979 Robert Williams died when he was hit in the head by a mechanical arm at a Ford casting plant.

First national park - Yellowstone in the USA was the first national park on Earth. President Ulysses S Grant declared it a protected area in 1872.

First person to reach the North Pole alone and on foot - Although Sir Wally Herbert of the UK was the first confirmed person to reach the North Pole in 1969, Børge Ousland of Norway walked there by himself in 1994!

First road map - Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar commissioned the first known road maps to be created, not surprisingly because the Romans were famous for the roads they built. It took nearly twenty years to complete the first map!

First skyscraper - The Home Insurance Building was erected in Chicago in 1884 and has been called the “Father of the Modern Skyscraper”. It was 10 stories high.

First solo person to circumnavigate the globe using only human power - Erden Eruc of Turkey walked and rowed right around the world!

First supercomputer - Cray-1, the world’s first supercomputer was installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States in 1976. It cost $8.8 million.

First video game - Often a source of controversy, if you bypass the whole digital thing, the first time any game was played on a screen was in 1947. Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann created something called the Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device. It was a missile simulator that used analog circuitry.
 

First watch - The first officially produced portable/wearable clock was the Nuremberg Egg. It was designed by Peter Hemlein of Germany in 1509.

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Bigar Cascade Falls from Caras-Severin County is located in the nature reserve that bears the same name, in Anina Mountains.

Glass Beach, California, USA - A beach buried in colorful sea glass.

Nootka Island, Vancouver Island, Canada - One of Canada’s many natural wonders.

Pamukkale, meaning cotton castle in Turkish, is a natural site in Denizli Province in southwestern Turkey.

The amazing rainforest and Amazon River span several countries in South America.

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Verdon Gorge, France - Limestone canyon with turquoise waters.
1- Monal, Pakistan

2- Ithaa, Maldives

3- Eagle’s Eye Resturant, Canada

4- Ngorongoro Crater Lodge, Tanzania

5- Le Jules Verne, France

6- Baan Rim Pa, Thailand

7- Rosellinis, Italy

8- Boucan, West Indies

9- Saidpur Village, Pakistan

10- El Tovar, Arizona
Antelope Canyon, USA

Bamboo Forest, Japan

Black Forest, Germany

Fields of Tea, China

Hitachi Seaside Park, Japan

Lake Hillier, Australia

Mendenhall Ice Caves, Juneau, Alaska

Naica Mine, Mexico

Red Beach, Panjin, China

Tianzi Mountains, China
Eighth place Torres del Paine National Park encompasses mountains, glaciers and rivers in Patagonia, Chile

Iconic The 30-metre tall Statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Number one Bora Bora in the French Polynesia is the best destination for photography, according to a study

Photographer's dream The Himalayas in Nepal made it to sixth place in the survey

Plain Of Temples Some 13,000 temples and stupas once stood on this plain in, Bagan, Myanmar

Postcard pretty Light reflects off the water in a rice terrace in Ubud, Bali, which came fourth in the survey

Third place The Grand Canyon is the United States' 15th oldest park

Tourist attraction Unesco World Heritage Site Halong Bay in Vietnam came ninth in the survey

World wonder Seventh on the list, historic Petra is Jordan's is a huge draw for tourists

Underwater love Australia's Great Barrier Reef was voted the second best destination for photography

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