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             Toubkal or Tubkal in Arabic: توبقال‎, is a mountain peak in southwestern Morocco, located in the Toubkal National Park. At 4,167 metres or 13,671 feet, it is the highest peak in the Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa and the Arab World. Located 63 km or 39 miles south of the city of Marrakech and it can even be seen from it, although much of the High Atlas consists of sedimentary rocks, the Toubkal massif is a part of volcanic rocks which have weathered into alpine crests cut by deep narrow valleys. To the south, the mountain drops steeply down for 1,800 metres to a tiny low lake called Lac d'Ifni. To the west, the mountain's edge is marked by a pass, the Tizi n'Ouanoums at 3,664 metres. From this pass, the mountain's W-S-W ridge rises up to Toubkal West, which forms a shoulder at 4,020 metres before continuing to the summit at 4,167 metres. The north and western side of Toubkal drains all the way down to the Mizane Valley, which has the passes

                               Mount Fuji, located on the island of Honshū, is the highest mountain in Japan, standing 3,776.24 metres. It is also the second-highest volcano located on an island in Asia after Mount Kerinci in Sumatra and seventh-highest peak of an island on Earth. It is an active stratovolcano that last erupted from 1707–1708. Mount Fuji lies about 100 kilometres south-west of Tokyo and can be seen from there on clear days. Mount Fuji's exceptionally symmetrical cone, which is snow-capped for about 5 months a year, is commonly used as a cultural icon of Japan and it is frequently depicted in many arts and photographs, as well as visited by sightseers and climbers. Mount Fuji is one of Japan's Three Holy Mountains, along with Mount Tate and Mount Haku. It is also a Special Place of Scenic Beauty and one of Japan's Historic Sites. It was added to the World Heritage List as a Cultural Site on June 22, 2013. According to UNESCO, Mount Fuji has inspired art

Rakotzbrücke Devil's Bridge. Gablenz, Germany. This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form a perfect circle. Nestled among the verdant foliage in Kromlau, Germany’s Kromlauer Park, is a delicately arched devil’s bridge known as the Rakotzbrücke, which was specifically built to create a circle when it is reflected in the waters beneath it. Commissioned in 1860 by the knight of the local town, the thin arch stretching over the waters of the Rakotzsee is roughly built out of varied local stone. Like many similarly precarious spans across Europe, the Rakotzbrücke is known as a “devil’s bridge,” due to the colloquialism that such bridges were so dangerous or miraculous that they must have been built by Satan. While the bridge (as with all the others) was created by mortal hands, its builders did seem to hold the aesthetics of the bridge in higher regard than its utility. Either end of the Rakotzbrücke is decorated with thin rock spires created to look lik