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card-horizontal mb-20 super-featured-categories-col-1-item-1" > <div class="position-relative card-media" style="flex: 0;"> <a class="ilf-image position-relative" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Petra-ancient-city-Jordan"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.britannica.com/24/153524-050-BA9D084B/Al-Dayr-Petra-Jordan.jpg?w=200&h=150&c=crop" alt="The ancient city of Petra" width="200" height="150" /> </a> </div> <div class="card-body ilf-content"> <a class="font-weight-semi-bold d-block mb-5 font-16 ilf-title" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Petra-ancient-city-Jordan" >Petra</a> <div class="font-weight-light font-serif font-14 line-clamp clamp-2 ilf-description">Petra, ancient city, center of an Arab kingdom in Hellenistic and Roman times, the ruins of which are in southwest Jordan. 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It occupies the easternmost of the three promontories of the Chalcidice (Khalkidhikí)</div> </div> </div> <div class="imagelink-with-image-on-the-side card card-horizontal mb-20 super-featured-categories-col-2-item-3" > <div class="position-relative card-media" style="flex: 0;"> <a class="ilf-image position-relative" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Pashupatinath-Temple"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.britannica.com/88/177488-050-080349A3/UNESCO-world-heritage-site-Pashupatinath-Temple-Kathmandu-Nepal.jpg?w=200&h=150&c=crop" alt="Pashupatinath Temple" width="200" height="150" /> </a> </div> <div class="card-body ilf-content"> <a class="font-weight-semi-bold d-block mb-5 font-16 ilf-title" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Pashupatinath-Temple" >Pashupatinath Temple</a> <div class="font-weight-light font-serif font-14 line-clamp clamp-2 ilf-description">Pashupatinath Temple, place of worship in the Kathmandu Valley on the Baghmati River, on the eastern outskirts of the city of Kathmandu, that is the holiest site in Nepal. It is devoted to the Hindu god Shiva in his form as Pashupati, protector of animals. There has been a religious foundation here</div> </div> </div> <div class="imagelink-with-image-on-the-side card card-horizontal mb-20 super-featured-categories-col-2-item-4" > <div class="position-relative card-media" style="flex: 0;"> <a class="ilf-image position-relative" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dome-of-the-Rock"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.britannica.com/93/84693-050-BBB16251/Dome-of-the-Rock-Jerusalem.jpg?w=200&h=150&c=crop" alt="Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem" width="200" height="150" /> </a> </div> <div class="card-body ilf-content"> <a class="font-weight-semi-bold d-block mb-5 font-16 ilf-title" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dome-of-the-Rock" >Dome of the Rock</a> <div class="font-weight-light font-serif font-14 line-clamp clamp-2 ilf-description">Dome of the Rock, shrine in Jerusalem built by the Umayyad caliph ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān in the late 7th century ce. It is the oldest extant Islamic monument. The structure is situated on a flat elevated plaza known to Muslims as al-Ḥaram al-Sharīf (“The Noble Sanctuary”) and to Jews as the</div> </div> </div> </ul> </div> <div class="col-100 col-md-33"> <h3>Natural Wonders</h3> <ul class="p-0"> <div class="imagelink-with-image-on-the-side card card-horizontal mb-20 super-featured-categories-col-3-item-1" > <div class="position-relative card-media" style="flex: 0;"> <a class="ilf-image position-relative" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Niagara-Falls-waterfall-North-America"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.britannica.com/30/94430-050-D0FC51CD/Niagara-Falls.jpg?w=200&h=150&c=crop" alt="Niagara Falls" width="200" height="150" /> </a> </div> <div class="card-body ilf-content"> <a class="font-weight-semi-bold d-block mb-5 font-16 ilf-title" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Niagara-Falls-waterfall-North-America" >Niagara Falls</a> <div class="font-weight-light font-serif font-14 line-clamp clamp-2 ilf-description">Niagara Falls, waterfall on the Niagara River in northeastern North America, one of the continent’s most famous spectacles. The falls lie on the border between Ontario, Canada, and New York state, U.S. For many decades the falls were an attraction for honeymooners and for such stunts as walking</div> </div> </div> <div class="imagelink-with-image-on-the-side card card-horizontal mb-20 super-featured-categories-col-3-item-2" > <div class="position-relative card-media" style="flex: 0;"> <a class="ilf-image position-relative" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Dead-Sea"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.britannica.com/16/134816-050-720DADDE/Salt-deposits-Dead-Sea-Israel-Masada.jpg?w=200&h=150&c=crop" alt="Dead Sea" width="200" height="150" /> </a> </div> <div class="card-body ilf-content"> <a class="font-weight-semi-bold d-block mb-5 font-16 ilf-title" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Dead-Sea" >Dead Sea</a> <div class="font-weight-light font-serif font-14 line-clamp clamp-2 ilf-description">Dead Sea, landlocked salt lake between Israel and Jordan in southwestern Asia. Its eastern shore belongs to Jordan, and the southern half of its western shore belongs to Israel. The northern half of the western shore lies within the Palestinian West Bank and has been under Israeli occupation since</div> </div> </div> <div class="imagelink-with-image-on-the-side card card-horizontal mb-20 super-featured-categories-col-3-item-3" > <div class="position-relative card-media" style="flex: 0;"> <a class="ilf-image position-relative" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Uluru-Ayers-Rock"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.britannica.com/49/20349-050-C5029C80/Uluru-Ayers-Rock-Uluru-Kata-Tjuta-National-Park-Australia.jpg?w=200&h=150&c=crop" alt="Uluru/Ayers Rock, Northern Territory, Australia" width="200" height="150" /> </a> </div> <div class="card-body ilf-content"> <a class="font-weight-semi-bold d-block mb-5 font-16 ilf-title" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Uluru-Ayers-Rock" >Uluru/Ayers Rock</a> <div class="font-weight-light font-serif font-14 line-clamp clamp-2 ilf-description">Uluru/Ayers Rock, giant monolith, one of the tors (isolated masses of weathered rock) in southwestern Northern Territory, central Australia. It has long been revered by a variety of Australian Aboriginal peoples of the region, who call it Uluru. The rock was sighted in 1872 by explorer Ernest Giles</div> </div> </div> <div class="imagelink-with-image-on-the-side card card-horizontal mb-20 super-featured-categories-col-3-item-4" > <div class="position-relative card-media" style="flex: 0;"> <a class="ilf-image position-relative" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Iguacu-Falls"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://cdn.britannica.com/53/167953-050-10CA9C3F/Iguacu-Falls.jpg?w=200&h=150&c=crop" alt="Iguaçu Falls" width="200" height="150" /> </a> </div> <div class="card-body ilf-content"> <a class="font-weight-semi-bold d-block mb-5 font-16 ilf-title" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Iguacu-Falls" >Iguaçu Falls</a> <div class="font-weight-light font-serif font-14 line-clamp clamp-2 ilf-description">Iguaçu Falls, series of cataracts on the Iguaçu River, 14 miles (23 km) above its confluence with the Alto (Upper) Paraná River, at the Argentina-Brazil border. 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