Unusual places to visit

Blue Lagoon—Iceland

Iceland—a country in the North Atlantic (北大西洋)—probably isn’t the first place you think of for a perfect beach holiday. But every year, thousands of people swim at the Blue Lagoon,  just 45km from the capital city, Reykjavik. The air temperature can be as low as minus (在零度以下) 10 degrees: but the water comes from underground and is naturally hot—the usual water temperature is between 35 and 40 degrees. It’s like taking a hot bath in the open air!

London Bridge—USA!

The original (最初的) London Bridge actually isn’t in London at all—and it doesn’t even pass over a river! American businessman Robert P Mc Culloch bought the bridge for ＄2.5 million in 1968 and moved it—stone by stone—across the Atlantic Ocean. He rebuilt (重建) it in Lake Havasu City, Arizona—a small town in the middle of the desert, where the temperature is often more than 40 degrees. Nowadays, thousands of tourists come to see the bridge, and there is one English village with water sports facilities (设施), shops and restaurants.

The Guggenheim Museums

There are not one but five Guggenheim Museums. Solomon R Guggenheim opened the first collection of modern art in New York in 1959. Another museum opened in Italy, and then, in 1997, two more Guggenheims opened: one in Berlin and the other in the Basque city of Bilbao, in the north-west of Spain. It is now one of Spain’s biggest tourist attractions (游览胜地), and every year hundreds of thousands of people come to see the painting and other works of art. The newest Guggenheim museum is the Virtual Museum—the world’s biggest Internet art gallery (画廊).

A mother of two boys has managed to create a wealth of sculptures （雕塑） using just party balloons.