29.9354°N, 52.8916°E.
Ceremonial capital of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, founded by Darius I in 518 BCE in Fars Province, Iran. The 125,000 m² terrace, supported by a 300 by 460-metre platform cut from the bedrock, hosted the Apadana audience hall (3,600 m², 36 columns), the Throne Hall (Hundred Columns Hall), the Treasury, and the residential palaces of Darius and Xerxes. Bas-reliefs along the Apadana stairways depict 23 subject nations bringing tribute, each with distinct dress and ethnic detail. Alexander the Great captured the city in 330 BCE; the wooden roof beams of the Apadana and the Hundred Columns Hall were burned, conventionally interpreted as deliberate retaliation for the Persian destruction of Athens. Darius's palace at Susa used cedar from Lebanon, ivory from Ethiopia and India, gold from Sardis and Bactria, lapis from Sogdiana, silver from Egypt — Persepolis was built from materials hauled across the entire Achaemenid world.
Alexander the Great burned a roof made of the cedar of Lebanon, two thousand miles from Lebanon.
| Landmark | Bearing | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| giza | 275.61° | 2,093 km |
| angkor wat | 97.88° | 5,529 km |
| nazca | 275.69° | 14,446 km |
| teotihuacan | 327.72° | 13,721 km |
| stonehenge | 314.02° | 5,044 km |
| gobekli tepe | 305.79° | 1,524 km |
| machu picchu | 276.07° | 14,130 km |
| easter island | 275.90° | 18,254 km |
| cahokia | 331.10° | 11,476 km |
| sedona | 346.29° | 12,632 km |
| mecca | 237.13° | 1,614 km |
| jerusalem | 281.39° | 1,698 km |
| vatican | 301.52° | 3,836 km |
| lhasa | 80.69° | 3,671 km |
| kailash | 80.08° | 2,718 km |
| uluru | 117.66° | 10,344 km |
| tiwanaku | 270.24° | 13,926 km |
| chaco canyon | 343.43° | 12,409 km |
| mt shasta | 356.20° | 12,078 km |
| levis stadium | 355.58° | 12,508 km |