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Stonehenge,
England
Like the
stone spheres of Costa Rica, Stonehenge is filled with mystery.
No one knows exactly who built it, or how, or why, but theories
are plentiful. The stones have been called everything from a burial
ground to a giant astronomical calculator. An equally wide variety
of people have been attracted to Stonehenge for centuries: archaeologists,
artists, tourists, even modern-day druids and their rituals. Stonehenge
has become England's top tourist attraction, with roughly 700,000
visitors per year. The current visitor experience is not as powerful
as it could be, because the stones have been blocked off in an
attempt to protect them from visitors. However, plans are underway
to better balance preservation and use, and to combine free movement
through the site with a new visitor's center farther away.
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