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Giant's Causeway

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Some 40,000 basalt columns on the coast of Northern Ireland, formed as lava cooled. Legend has it the giant Finn McCool built the causeway across the sea to reach a rival in Scotland.

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Mount Kinabalu

Borneo's highest mountain, held by the Kadazan-Dusun to be the resting place of ancestral spirits. Until the 1990s a rite involving the sacrifice of seven white chickens was required before climbing, and it is still performed once a year. In 2015 a group of tourists stripped at the summit for photographs; days later an earthquake killed eighteen people, and local authorities connected the two directly.

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