Showing posts from June, 2012

Wuppertal Schwebebahn: Germany’s Hanging Train

Jun 29, 2012

Wuppertal Schwebebahn or Wuppertal Floating Tram is a suspension monorail in Wuppertal, Germany. First opened in 1901, the Wuppertal Schwebe...

Niagara Falls Light Show

Jun 28, 2012

From the beginning of November until the first week of January, the Niagara Falls Winter Festival of Lights takes place. During these two mo...

Impressive Architectures at City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia

Jun 27, 2012

The City of Arts and Sciences is a large-scale urban recreation center for culture and science in the city of Valencia, Spain. Designed by V...

Ordinary Batman Adventures

Jun 27, 2012

Ordinary Batman Adventures is a humorous art series by freelance illustrator and artist Sarah Johnson, where she humanizes Batman by depict...

Glass Sculptures by Robert Micklesen

Jun 27, 2012

Florida-based Robert Micklesen is one of the world's most renown glass artists. His creations are revered as revolutionary in the glass...

Colorful and Picturesque Villages of Faroe Islands

Jun 26, 2012

The Faroe Islands is a group of 18 islands in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of Scotland and halfway between Iceland and ...

Nathan Walsh’s Oil Paintings of Urban Landscape

Jun 26, 2012

Nathan Walsh creates amazing photorealistic paintings of cityscapes. “I am fascinated by the city”, says Nathan Walsh. “It's visual com...

Crescent Lake in Dunhuang China

Jun 26, 2012

Crescent lake also called Yueyaquan in Chinese is a beautiful crescent-shaped lake located 6 km south of the Dunhuang city in the arms of th...

Abandoned World War II Monuments and Memorials in Yugoslavia

Jun 26, 2012

During the 1960s and 70s, the then Yugoslavian president Josip Broz Tito, commissioned several memorial sites and monuments called ‘Spomenik...

Thousands Perform Yoga at Times Square in New York

Jun 26, 2012

Every year on the Solstice, Times Square in New York hosts a massive yoga demonstration that fills the street and stretches for at least thr...

9 de Julio Avenue: The Widest Street in the World

Jun 22, 2012

9 de Julio Avenue (or Avenida 9 de Julio, in the local tongue) in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina, is not just any street. Nine lanes wide,...

Magic Roundabout in Swindon: The Most Confusing Traffic Junction

Jun 22, 2012

The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, England, constructed in 1972, is the most brilliant and at the same time, the most confusing roundabout eve...

Beautiful Black & White Storm Photography by Mitch Dobrowner

Jun 22, 2012

California-based photographer Mitch Dobrowner began shooting “Storms” in 2009 as an experiment to photograph the dramatic thunderstorms hap...

The Swimming Pigs of Big Major Cay, Bahamas

Jun 21, 2012

Big Major Cay in the Bahamas is a small, uninhabited island and very popular anchorage. The Exuma Banks side of the island has two beautiful...

Giant Storm Cloud Over Beijing

Jun 21, 2012

A strange cloud appeared last week in the skies over Beijing. Glowing like a huge "mushroom", similar to what is left after a nucl...

The Magic Realism of Rob Gonsalves

Jun 21, 2012

Canadian painter Rob Gonsalves surrealistic paintings portrays two seemingly different realistic scenes magically merging into one. As a re...

10 Largest Natural Arches in the World

Jun 20, 2012

A natural arch is a geological formation where rocky cliffs subject to erosion from the sea, rivers or weathering forms a rock arch. Some na...

Lava Lake at Nyiragongo Volcano

Jun 17, 2012

Mount Nyiragongo is located inside Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, about 20 km north of the town of Goma and...

25 Cities With the Most Impressive Skyline (Part 2)

Jun 17, 2012

Continued from Part 1 Jakarta, Indonesia Located on the northwest coast of Java, Jakarta is Indonesia’s economic, cultural and political...

25 Cities With the Most Impressive Skyline (Part 1)

Jun 17, 2012

The skyline of a city is like a fingerprint, unique and as easily identifiable as a country's flag or a national symbol. The Empire Stat...

Floating Bicyclists by Zhao Huasen

Jun 16, 2012

Chinese photographer Zhao Huasen photographed hundreds of cyclists going about their way in Shanghai. He then digitally erased the bicycles ...

Portraits Made by Wrapping a Single Thread Around Nails by Kumi Yamashita

Jun 16, 2012

Japanese artist Kumi Yamashita , known for her innovative light and shadow portraits , is back with yet another astounding creation. In the ...

Olympic Athlete’s Diet

Jun 16, 2012

As the 2012 Olympic Games in London draws nearer, a group of Turkish Olympic hopefuls pose with their highly regimented daily diets for Reut...

Sharon Moody's Photorealist Paintings of Comic Books

Jun 15, 2012

Washington D.C. – based artist Sharon Moody paints gorgeous oil paintings of classic comic books in mid-read, capturing a moment in time as...

Siachen, The World's Highest Battlefield

Jun 12, 2012

The Siachen glacier, located in the eastern Karakoram range in the Himalaya Mountains, is one of the five largest glaciers in the Karakoram,...

Geoffrey H. Short's Gorgeous Photographs of Explosions

Jun 12, 2012

New Zealand artist and photographer Geoffrey H. Short hired special effects experts from the film industry to set up explosions on the blac...

Ghostly Missile Vapor Trail Over Russia

Jun 12, 2012

Russian photographer Maxim Korotchenko happened to catch these curious formation on the night sky over the city of Astrakhan, on June 7, 20...

Hot Air Ballooning Over Cappadocia’s Incredible Landscape

Jun 12, 2012

Cappadocia is an area in Central Anatolia in Turkey with the most dramatic landscape in Europe. Over thousands of years, wind and rain erode...

Alnwick Poison Garden

Jun 11, 2012

The Alnwick Poison Garden is one of the many public gardens attached to Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, England. The castle itself is the ...

Wire Sculptures That Looks Like Sketches by David Oliveira

Jun 10, 2012

Lisbon-born sculptor David Oliveira creates delicate sculptures using wire that’s formed to look like ink sketches hovering in air. Some pi...

Kittiwat Unarrom Creates Gruesome Human Body Parts out of Bread

Jun 10, 2012

Thai artist and baker Kittiwat Unarrom bakes disturbingly realistic bread sculpted in the shape of dismembered human body parts. Since 2006 ...

Stunning Photos of Waves by Nick Selway

Jun 10, 2012

These incredible pictures capture the stunning moment waves roll on to a tropical beach. Photographers Nick Selway, 28, and pal CJ Kale, 35,...

Whimsical Rock Formations at Little Finland, Nevada

Jun 10, 2012

Deep in the Nevada desert reachable by an off-beaten track called Gold Butte Byway, lies a fascinating area that few people know about. It’s...

Multicolored Salt Ponds at San Francisco Bay

Jun 8, 2012

If you ever fly over San Francisco Bay, be sure to peer out of the window to catch a glimpse of one of the world's most incredibly colou...

McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica: The Driest Place on Earth

Jun 7, 2012

Antarctica is covered with ice, but not all of it. The McMurdo Dry Valleys is almost entirely snow free. Located among mountains by McMurdo ...

Flower Paradise at Hitachi Seaside Park, Japan

Jun 7, 2012

Hitachi Seaside Park, located in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan, next to the Ajigaura Beach, is a flower park and a popular tourist ...

Beautiful Colored Pencil Drawings by Joseph Crone

Jun 6, 2012

Joseph Crone graduated from the Herron School of Art and Design the summer of 2010 with the intention to explore, through the realistic dua...

Michael Mapes’s Dissected Portraits

Jun 6, 2012

New York based artist Michael Mapes creates elaborate portraits by dissecting photographs and reconstructing them once again to recreate th...

Lake Retba Looks Like a Giant Strawberry Milkshake

Jun 6, 2012

Lake Retba or Lac Rose lies north of the Cap Vert peninsula of Senegal, north east of Dakar. Depending on the time of day, the lake changes ...

Kiev Fire Festival 2012

Jun 5, 2012

For the sixth year in a row, the Kiev International Fire Festival was held in the capital city of Kiev, Ukraine, on 25th-26th of May 2012. T...

8 Wacky Festivals Celebrated in the Month of June

Jun 5, 2012

We have seen many strange festivals, customs and rituals followed by people in various countries and culture. Thousands of years of human ex...

World's Longest Yard Sale on U.S. Route 127

Jun 4, 2012

The World's Largest Yard Sale, also known as the Highway 127 Corridor Sale or simply 127 Yard Sale , is an outdoor second-hand sale held...

Sleeping Chinese People

Jun 3, 2012

German photographer Bernd Hagemann has long been fascinated by China and its people, particularly the way they slept at every street corner ...

Hand Painted Movie Posters From Ghana

Jun 3, 2012

When the first video cassette recorders reached Ghana in the 1980s and gradually a rental structure arose for homegrown movies, in the urban...

Playa de Gulpiyuri, a Beach Without the Sea

Jun 2, 2012

Playa de Gulpiyuri or the Gulpiyuri Beach is a shell shaped little beach located in the middle of a grassy meadow, near Llanes, a small town...

The Disappearing Aral Lake and the Ship Graveyard of Moynaq

Jun 2, 2012

Moynaq (also spelled as Muynak and Moynaq) is a city in northern Karakalpakstan in western Uzbekistan. Half a century ago, the city was loca...