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​"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet...", and so far Kipling's simple and powerful description almost applied to the natural and man-made wonders featured in this blog...

Pondering over the reasons of some museums being more popular than others is a pleasant distraction provided by, essentially, idle curiosity. After all, there is a variety of plausible answers none of which can be proven or disproven convincingly...

Knowledgeable guides specializing in walking tours are invaluable when it comes to uncovering local hidden treasures - and yet, even they would usually overlook what might be called a given city's "worst kept secrets".

The quote is from a brochure published by and agency called "Walking Around London". The agency promotes those and other guides without employing them, because all the guides are freelancers coming from all walks of life...

While the Rock Circus looks completely in place in London, and Marie Tussaud's first permanent exhibition took next to no time to become that city's "number one attraction", both museums can be easily imagined elsewhere...

Impressive and famous as it is. London's Rock Circus is, in a way, a byproduct of another renowned institution created by a French immigrant who had barely escaped with her life during the so-called "French Revolution"...

Planetariums were not meant for entertainment but rather created for scientific and - later - educational purposes...

It's easy to praise and enjoy the Planetarium's cutting-edge IMAX movie theatre, but the actual exhibition is not less fascinating - even though its subject, astronomy, is not exactly intuitive.

There is a clock in a room located in a tower at Copenhagen City Hall. The room is big enough to host a full-fledged museum of a modest size, yet the clock in question is the only object there.