Showing posts from April, 2014

The Deer Stones of Mongolia

Apr 30, 2014

Throughout the grasslands of northern Mongolia and southern Siberia lay scattered hundreds of megaliths bearing mysterious carvings that see...

Spruce Creek: Where Everybody Owns an Airplane

Apr 30, 2014

Spruce Creek, in Northeast Florida, a few miles south of Daytona Beach, is one of the most unique residential communities in the world. Know...

Cedar Avenue of Nikko, The World’s Longest Tree-Lined Avenue

Apr 29, 2014

The Cedar Avenue of Nikko, in the city of Nikko in Japan, stretches for 37 km and lined on either side by some 13,000 cedar trees, known as ...

City Crows Build Nests Out of Coat Hangers

Apr 28, 2014

When Aesop wrote the famous fable “The Crow and the Pitcher”, he wasn’t making up a story. The fable was based on actual observation that wa...

Meskel Square, A Chaotic Intersection With No Traffic Lights

Apr 27, 2014

Chaotic doesn’t even begin to describe how crazy the Meskel Square intersection is, in the city of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Without a single...

Wadi Al-Hitan, the Valley of Whales in Egypt

Apr 25, 2014

The deserts of Egypt contains some of the best preserved paleontological sites in the world one of which is Wadi al-Hitan or the Valley of W...

Quinta Real - Hotel in a Former Bullring in Zacatecas, Mexico

Apr 25, 2014

The Plaza de Toros San Pedro bullring was inaugurated in 1866, adjacent to the historic El Cubo aqueduct, in the town of Zacatecas in Mexico...

Guelta d’Archei, a Surprising Oasis in Chad

Apr 24, 2014

Guelta d'Archei is an oasis, or rather a guelta, in the heart of the Sahara desert. A guelta is a peculiar type of wetland, typical of d...

Presidio Modelo, The Abandoned Panopticon Prison of Cuba

Apr 24, 2014

Presidio Modelo was a former “model prison" of Panopticon design, located on the Isla de la Juventud in Cuba, built between 1926 and 19...

The Rock Churches of Lalibela

Apr 24, 2014

In the remote town of Lalibela, perched on the mountains in the heart of Ethiopia, some 645 km from Addis Ababa, are eleven medieval monolit...

Long Distance Conveyor Belts

Apr 23, 2014

Employed in nearly all kinds of industries, conveyor belts provide an excellent mean for moving cargo and materials from one place to anothe...

Spectacular Train Route to Copper Mines in the Andes

Apr 21, 2014

The Chanaral – Llanta – Potrerillos line in Chile is one of the most stunning railways in the world. It connects Potrerillos, a now abandone...

Ed Burtynsky’s Aerial Pictures of Watery Landscape

Apr 20, 2014

Edward Burtynsky is Canada’s most respected photographers known for his remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes ...

Organic Farming in the Deserts of Wadi Rum

Apr 20, 2014

The valley of Wadi Rum in southern Jordan, near the border with Saudi Arabia, has a landscape so alien it is nicknamed "Valley of the M...

The Netherland’s Impressive Storm Surge Barriers

Apr 19, 2014

The Netherlands is a geographically low-lying country, with about 20% of its area and 21% of its population located below sea level. As much...

New Zealand’s Hot Water Beach

Apr 18, 2014

Hot Water Beach is a popular beach and geothermal attraction located on the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand, approxima...

The Pseudocraters of Iceland

Apr 17, 2014

A pseudocrater looks like a true volcanic crater, but is not. These distinctive landforms are created when flowing hot lava crosses over a w...

Makoko, a Floating Slum in Nigeria

Apr 16, 2014

The shanty town of Makoko is located on a lagoon on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, a stone’s throw from the modern buildings that make up L...

Trinity Site, the Site of the First Atomic Bomb Blast

Apr 16, 2014

On July 16, 1945, the world’s first nuclear explosion, code named Trinity, occurred at a test site located 336 km south of Los Alamos on the...

Kawah Ijen, The Volcano That Spews Blue Flames

Apr 14, 2014

Kawah Ijen is one of several volcanoes located within the 20 km wide Ijen Caldera in East Java, Indonesia. The caldera of Kawah Ijen harbors...

The Crater Lakes of Tongariro National Park

Apr 13, 2014

Located in central North Island, Tongariro National Park is the oldest national park in New Zealand, and the fourth established national par...

Hyper Realistic Eyes Drawn Using Colored Pencils

Apr 12, 2014

Jose Vergara , known by his pet name Redosking on his artwork, is an impressively talented artist from south Texas. Vergara’s medium is colo...

Karakul Lake in Tajikistan

Apr 12, 2014

Lake Karakul or "Black Lake" is located in the high and dry Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan, within the Tajik National Park, in one ...

World's Tallest Ferris Wheel Opens in Las Vegas

Apr 11, 2014

The world’s tallest Ferris wheel opened on the Las Vegas Strip on March 31, 2014. Standing at 550 foot tall, the Ferris wheel named “High Ro...

Sivash Salt Lagoons in the Crimean Peninsula

Apr 11, 2014

The Crimean Peninsula lies between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, just south of the Ukrainian mainland, and is almost completely surroun...

The Incredible Art of Underwater Landscaping for Aquariums

Apr 11, 2014

Designing aquariums is serious art for folks who take part in international aquascaping contests like Russia's International Planted Aqu...

The Restaurant Atop Bei Tou Incinerator

Apr 9, 2014

The Bei Tou Incinerator (also spelled as Pei Tou), located in the city of Taipei in Taiwan, is a waste incinerator that burns 1,800 metric t...

The Oldest Cave Paintings in The Cave of El Castillo

Apr 9, 2014

The world’s oldest artwork, believed to be at least 40,800 years old, was discovered in the Cave of El Castillo, literally, “the cave of cas...

The Sunken Cemetery of Camiguin Island

Apr 7, 2014

Camiguin is an island province of the Philippines located in the Bohol Sea, about 10 kilometers off the northern coast of Mindanao. The isla...

The Principality of Sealand, or How to Start Your Own Country

Apr 7, 2014

The Principality of Sealand is a micronation located on an abandoned World War II fort, in the North Sea 10 km off the coast of Suffolk in E...

Tower of David, the World’s Tallest Slum

Apr 7, 2014

The Tower of David is an abandoned unfinished skyscraper in the center of Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela, that is now home to more t...

12 Famous Shipwrecks That You Can Still Visit

Apr 4, 2014

There are an estimated three million undiscovered shipwrecks scattered on the oceans’ floor across the world, some of which are thousands of...

Hong Kong’s Outdoor Escalators

Apr 1, 2014

In one of Hong Kong's smartest residential area called Mid-levels, the public is served by an unusual form of transport - the longest ou...