Romantic places

50 of the Most Important Landmarks of the World

Blue-domed Church in Santorini

St Basil Cathedral in Moscow

The Statue of Liberty in New York

Machu Picchu in Peru

The Taj Mahal in Agra ( India ) 

The The Great Sphynx at Gizae

The Chinese Wall in China

Uluru in the Northern Territory

The Little Mermaid in Copenhagen

Windmills at Kinderdijk ( Holland ) 

Agia Sofia in Istanbul, Turkey

Acropolis of Athens

Mount Fuji in Japan

Stonehenge in the English county of Wiltshire

Big Ben in London

Neuschwanstein in Bavaria

Mount Eden crater in New Zealand

Loch Ness in Scotland

Easter Island in the Polynesian Triangle

Christo Redemptor in Rio de Janeiro

Capitol Hill in Washington DC

Tower of Pisa

Al Aqsa in Jerusalem

Niagara Falls at the border of Ontario ( Canada ) and New York ( USA ) 

Angkor Wat at Cambodia

The Burj in Dubai

Bran Castle in Romania

Manneke Pis in Brussels

Mount Everest on the border of Tibet and Nepal

Mecca in Saudi Arabia

Brandenburg Gate in Berlin

St Peters at Vatican City

Mont St Michel in France

Mount Rushmore in South Dakota

North Cape in Norway

Chichen Itza in Mexico

Inukshuk in Canada

Lascaux in France

Table Mountain in South Africa

Trevi Fountain in Rome

Petra in Jordan

Sagrada Familia in Barcelona

Victoria Falls between Zambia and Zimbabwe

The Grand Canyon in Arizona

Nevado Mismi in Peru ( source of the Amazon River ) 

Auschwitz in Poland

The Great Buddha of Kamakura in Tokyo

Neptune and the Palace of Versailles in France

Cape of Good Hope in South Africa

Abandonment Is an Awful Poverty

One day I visited a house where our sisters shelter the aged.  This is one of the nicest houses in England, filled with beautiful and precious things, yet there was not one smile on the faces of these people. All of them were looking toward the door.
I asked the sister in charge, "Why are they like that? Why can't you see a smile on their faces?" (I am accustomed to seeing smiles on people's faces.  I think a smile generates a smile, just as love generates love.)
The sister answered, "The same thing happens every day. They are always waiting for someone to come and visit them.  Loneliness eats them up, and day after day they do not stop looking.  Nobody comes."
Abandonment is an awful poverty.  There are poor people everywhere, but the deepest poverty is not being loved.
The poor we seek may live near us or far away. They can be materially or spiritually poor. They may be hungry for bread or hungry for friendship.  They may need clothing, or they may need the sense of wealth that God's love for them represents.   They may need the shelter of a house made of bricks and cement or the shelter of having a place in our hearts.