It's hard to miss Potala Palace, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This grand, imposing structure stands more than 12,000 feet above sea level on Marpo-ri, or Red Hill, in the middle of central Lhasa.

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After the devastating 2019 fire at Notre Dame, two mysterious sarcophaguses were discovered under the cathedral’s stone floor. Who is buried in them, and what secrets will these coffins reveal?

A six-mile network of underground tunnels soon to become a nuclear "tomb" has been pictured for the first time. The expansive $4billion (£3.1billion) Onkalo project, developed by Finnish ...