In China, there is a wall that twists and turns like a dragon as it goes over moun- tains and across valleys. It is about as high as a three-story building. And it goes on and on, for nearly 4,000...
NO CARS ALLOWED
There's an island in the United States between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan that's still in the horse and buggy days. The most important traffic law on Mackinac Island is People travel by horse or...
THE EIFFEL OF PARIS
Do you know where you can get an "eyeful" of Paris? From the top of the Eiffel Tower, of course. But the name and the view only sound alike. The Eiffel Tower is named for Alexandre Eiffel, a great...
THE HOUSE THAT ALEX BUILT
One clay, a man named Alex Jordan was wandering around a hilly countryside in Wisconsin, when he saw a huge rock. It was as tall as a thirty-story skyscraper, and it was shaped like a giant chimney....
AND THE WALLS CAME TUMBLIN’ DOWN
This drawing shows priests carrying the sacred Ark of the Covenant while the walls of Jericho fall. The Bible tells the story of a great battle in which Joshua, a leader of the Jews, made his...
THE FALLING TOWER
You can see a bell tower that leans in the town of Pisa, Italy. What does it lean against? Nothing. It's called the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and it's been leaning more and more ever since it was built...
QUEER, QUAINT, AND CURIOUS PLACES
Would you like to visit places that are really different---places where you can see a tower that tips, or the oldest city in the world, or the world\'s longest front porch? The next few pages will...
HONG KONG ISLAND GARDEN
Up, up, up you go in a cable car for a breathtaking ride to Victoria Peak. That's the highest point on Hong Kong island, off the south coast of China. From the cable-car stop, you can travel by bus...
ZOOS AROUND THE WORLD
> The Taronga Park Zoo, Sydney, Australia It's hard to get close to a wild animal. Some animals might charge yon the way a rhinoceros does, and yon would have to scramble to get away. Other animals,...
THE LAND OF LILLIPUT
In the book Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, Gulliver visits Lilliput, a land of tiny people. Gulliver is an ordinarysized man. But to the Lilliputians, he looks like a giant! You can...
