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People gathered in an abandoned building in Lithuania to watch a Formula One race
June 18, 2012

Formula One Spectators, Lithuania

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People watching a car-racing event from an abandoned building. Curiosity to see a Formula One race for the first time in Lithuania was bigger than the risk of standing on the edge of a building meant to be demolished. By now it is destroyed.

(This photo and caption were submitted to the 2012 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest.)

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Photograph by Ruta Balciunaite

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