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The Initiation Well | Quinta da Regaleira

The Mystifying system of tunnels in the palace of Park underground complex, that is Qutina da Regaleira, in Sintra, Portugal. The land that had many owners through time, but it was built at the beginning of the last century. The owner of Quinta da Regaleira, Antonio Augusto Carvlho Monteiro, was a known Freemanson and with the help of Italian Achitect Luigi Manini, set about designing and constructing the four hectare estate with it enigmatic buildings, parks and tunnels which are laden with symbols related to alchemy, masonry, the Knights Templar and the Rosicrucians. The construction of the current estate commenced in 1904 and most of it was concluded by 1910. The central structure is considered will Initiation, entrance to which is guarded by guards chthonic penumbra, representing the world of mid-tones. The 27 meters deep well, consists of nine levels in 15 steeps each, resemble a inverted tower, and depending on the direction of choose, either a journey down into the depths of the earth, or a climb out of the darkness into the light, the journey through the earth is like a reborn through mother natures womb, from where all things come and where one day all shall return. The miracles created by human hands, contains a downward spiral staircase that leads to a variety of outlets. The well was so named because it is rumored that it held initiation rites of Masons. At the bottom of the well laid out cross of the Templars in an eight-star emblem Monteiro.

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There are obvious Hemetic/Rosicrucian connotation in the well:

" That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above, and that which is Above, corresponds to that which is Below, to accomplish the miracles of the One Thing" — Hermes Trismegistus

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Divine Terrace — The opposite entrance is located in the well. Image by Flickr User Chris Fullmer

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The Chapel of Skulls | Kaplica Czaszek, Poland

The Kaplica Czaszek (Chapel of the Skulls) is located between St. Bartholomew's church of the Polish village Czermna. The walls and ceiling of the church are decorated with thousands of human skulls and bones. The chapel was built in 1776, when America was declaring its independence form England. Polish people of Czernma are surviving with acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of contaminated water or food and hunger. They are victim of war or the Plague. Most likely it is the mass grave of people who died during the thirty years war "1618-1648". The plague that broke out during the war and the Three Silesian Wars "1740-63 and other military conflicts.

The urbane looking Kaplica Czaszek is garnished with 21,000 human skeletons and thousands of Skulls. Today the skulls are installed and include a Tartar warriors skull, the Czermana mayor and his wife, skull with bullet holes, and skull swiss-cheesed by syphilis, and even the skull of giant. Beside these special skulls are those of the priest and the grave digger themselves, presiding proudly over the chapel of Skulls they created and now call their final resting place.

The Chapel of Skulls | Kaplica Czaszek, Poland

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International Car Forest of the Last Church, Nevada

At the edge of Goldfield, a small town in the middle of Nevada, multiple cars, buses, vans, and limos are buried vertically in the desert as if they are growing out of the ground.The product of artists Chad Sorg and Mark Rippie, the Car Forest began when Sorg saw just a seed of the project. In fact, all of these old vehicles, presented in the form of an amazing psychedelic form of art contemporary art project involving dozens of abandoned cars and trucks in the Nevada desert, which is called the International Car Forest of the Last Church.

This art project was the result of a collaboration between the artist Chad Sorg and local resident Mark Rippy. In his best work, the artist Chad Sorg used vehicles as the giant blades for different paintings.

Now more than 40 automobiles have been balanced upright on their ends, or stacked on top of each other and painted with all kinds ofgraffiti. All images by © Flickr

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International Automobile forest in Nevada International Car Forest is believed to connoisseurs of modern art, is the largest interesting art project on the road and attraction. Images by © Flickr

The singularity of the project lies in the fact that each of the machines is a completely unusual way: some are buried in the ground or placed at an angle, while others are set against each other. Images by © Flickr

Art Project - International Car of the Secret Forest church in the Nevada desert (USA).

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Bunker 599

Bunker 599, one of the small sproket in the New Dutch Waterline, it was originally built in 1940, to defense up to 13 soldiers during bombing raids of second world war and the intervention by Dutch Studios RAAAF and Atelier de Lyon Reveals. The small, dark space inside, which are normally hidden from view. The Defense used between 1815 and 1940 to protect the cities of Muiden, Utrecht, Vreeswijk and Gorinchem by flooding the area with water. In 700 bunkers the Bunker 599 is slice through the solid concrete bunker in 40 days along the New Dutch Waterline, a part of the series of water-based defenses. The building has been rupture down from the middle and create a unique and competent war memories. Now days it is a part of tourist attraction. Ronad Rietveld of RAAAF said " Our aim with the project was to question the policies on monuments by doing this intervention." The set of stairs is also connect the near by road to path that leads through the center of the bunker onto a wooden boardwalk raised above the flooded area.