Showing posts from March, 2016

Veijo Rönkkönen’s Sculpture Park

Mar 31, 2016

In the Finnish town of Parikalla, close to the Russian border, is a remarkable sculpture park consisting of some five hundred concrete figur...

The Incredible Basilica Cistern of Istanbul

Mar 31, 2016

When Istanbul was Constantinople during the period of the great Roman, and later Byzantium Empire, hundreds of subterranean cisterns were bu...

The Bridges of Prague

Mar 30, 2016

Located on the banks of Vltava River, the historic city of Prague and the capital of Czech Republic is said to be one of Europe’s best prese...

The Terrifying Scarecrows of Britain

Mar 29, 2016

One of the most familiar figures of the rural landscape throughout the United Kingdom , as with many countries around the world, is the scar...

The Secret of Langham Dome Trainer

Mar 29, 2016

About 24 km northwest of the city of Norwich, in north Norfolk, England, lies the abandoned remains of RAF Langham, a former Royal Air Force...

Kunsthaus Graz Art Museum

Mar 28, 2016

The Kunsthaus Graz Art Museum in Graz, Austria, is a gigantic blob-shaped building with a dozen or so tube like nozzles, acting as windows, ...

The Alien Landscape of Bisti Badlands

Mar 28, 2016

The Bisti Badlands, also called Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness, is a vast rolling landscape of phantasmagoric formations of earth and stone loca...

African Renaissance Monument

Mar 28, 2016

Standing atop a 100-meter high hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean outside Dakar, in Senegal, stands the gigantic Monument to the African Re...

A Blast From The Past: Episode 13

Mar 27, 2016

A collection of interesting articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s past archives. Anastassia Elias’s Tiny Worl...

The Ghost Town of Bodie

Mar 26, 2016

One of America’s most beautiful abandoned town, now a protected State Historic Park, is Bodie, located east of the Sierra Nevada mountain ra...

Icelandic Phallological Museum

Mar 26, 2016

The Icelandic Phallological Museum in Reykjavík is the world’s only museum devoted to the male genitalia. It contains over 280 specimens rep...

The Prehistoric Rock Art of Tassili N'Ajjer, Algeria

Mar 25, 2016

Tassili n'Ajjer is a vast desert plateau in southern Algeria, stretching from the borders with Niger and Libya to the east, to as far as...

Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin

Mar 24, 2016

Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church at Breitscheidplatz is one of Berlin's most famous landmarks. The church was originally built between 189...

Abandoned Victorian Public Toilets of London

Mar 24, 2016

Of all the wonderful things to photograph in London, Agnese Sanvito chose one that most Londoners avoid, unless they have to —public toilet...

The Backroom Collection of The National Museum of Natural History

Mar 23, 2016

The National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., United States, the largest of all museums of the Smithsonian Institution, is hom...

The Nearly Invisible Wires That Enclose Nearly All Major Cities of The World

Mar 23, 2016

Unbeknownst to many, there are translucent fishing lines that wrap around hundreds of cities around the world. Strung high above the heads o...

Acoma Pueblo: The Oldest Continuously Inhabited Settlement in The United States

Mar 22, 2016

Acoma Pueblo, in Valencia County in West Central New Mexico, is believed to have been established in the 12th century or even earlier, makin...

Taq Kasra: The Archway of Ctesiphon

Mar 22, 2016

The ancient city of Ctesiphon, on the banks of Tigris, is located about 35 km southeast of modern Baghdad. Established in the late 120s BC, ...

The Fabulous Fabergé Eggs of The Russian Imperial Family

Mar 21, 2016

Easter is the most important celebration for Russian orthodox Christians, just like Christmas is in the West. Devoted Christians bring hand-...

The Stave Churches of Norway

Mar 21, 2016

During the Middle Ages, a new type of wooden construction technique became popular all over northwestern Europe, especially in Norway, where...

The Mysterious Shell Grotto in Margate

Mar 18, 2016

In the old seaside town of Margate, in the English county of Kent, not too far from the town’s harbor, is a mysterious underground cavern wi...

The Plague Island of Poveglia

Mar 18, 2016

The island of Poveglia is one of the many small islands located in the Venetian Lagoon between Venice and Lido. It is believed to be haunted...

Japan’s Largest Cemetery Okunoin With 200,000 Buried Monks

Mar 18, 2016

In a peaceful wooded area of Wakayama Prefecture, south of Kyoto and Osaka, lies the ancient village of Koyasan or Mount Koya, known as the ...

The Crater Riddled Cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, Normandy

Mar 16, 2016

A few kilometers east of the small fishing port of Grandcamp, the Normandy coastline in northern France, juts into the sea forming a sheer p...

Butcher’s Broom: Can Fruits Grow on Leaves?

Mar 16, 2016

Butcher’s Broom, or Ruscus aculeatus , is a low-growing perennial shrub with tough, erect, stems and very rigid leaves that terminate in a s...

The Rio de Janeiro Cathedral

Mar 15, 2016

One of Rio de Janeiro’s most visible attraction is the Rio de Janeiro Cathedral or the Metropolitan Cathedral of Rio de Janeiro. This cone s...

Tavolara: The World's Smallest Kingdom

Mar 15, 2016

Just off the coast of Sardinia, Italy, in the Gulf of Olbia, lies the lonely island of Tavolara, that rises out of the sea as a jagged mount...

The Murals of National Autonomous University of Mexico

Mar 14, 2016

The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), located in downtown Mexico, is the largest university in Latin America, and one of the ...

Al-Shaheed Monument, Baghdad

Mar 14, 2016

During the 1970s and 1980s, Saddam Hussein’s government spent a lot of oil money in building monuments around Baghdad. Two of these are quit...

The Water Village of Kampong Ayer

Mar 14, 2016

On the banks of Brunei River, which flows through Brunei's capital city Bandar Seri Begawan, is a settlement consisting of 42 contiguous...

A Blast From The Past: Episode 12

Mar 13, 2016

A collection of interesting articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s past archives. Cancun Underwater Sculpture ...

Henninger Turm: World’s Tallest Storage Silo With a Restaurant On Top

Mar 12, 2016

Henninger Turm or Henninger Tower in Frankfurt’s Sachsenhausen district was one of this area’s famous landmark, and part of the great skylin...

Women’s World War 2 Memorials

Mar 12, 2016

All wars change the lives of those they touch, but nothing was as transformative and revolutionary as the Second World War, particularly for...

Cisternerne: A Subterranean Water Reservoir Turned Into Art Gallery

Mar 11, 2016

Buried beneath Frederiksberg Hill in the heart of Søndermarken Park, in Copenhagen, is a massive underground space that once held up to 16 m...

The Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison

Mar 10, 2016

The Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison, in the state of Colorado, is one of the world’s most famous dinosaur sites. Discovered in 1877 by Arthur Lak...

The Dragon Temple in Samphran

Mar 10, 2016

About 40 km west of Bangkok lies the district of Samphran, where there is a rather odd-looking Wat or Buddhist temple. The temple complex ha...

The Novaya Zemlya Effect

Mar 10, 2016

The Novaya Zemlya Effect is a curious optical phenomenon named after an archipelago located north of Russia, in the Arctic Ocean. It was her...

The Feng Shui Skyscrapers of Hong Kong

Mar 9, 2016

In Hong Kong, a city with one of the most beautiful skyline , the plan and design of a building is determined as much as by architects and e...

Drone Photos Show The Density of Hong Kong’s High Rises

Mar 9, 2016

Hong Kong based photographer, Andy Yeung , shows us how densely populated his city is by flying a drone over and capturing the view with a w...

Havre Beneath The Streets

Mar 8, 2016

In the late 19th century, when the Great Northern Railway laid down its line between Seattle and Minneapolis, a distance of more than 1,600 ...

The Abandoned NSA Listening Station at Teufelsberg, Berlin

Mar 8, 2016

At the end of the Second World War, Berlin had over 400,000 homes destroyed and an estimated 75 million cubic meters of rubble that needed t...

The Mysterious Caves of Mustang, Nepal

Mar 7, 2016

The Kingdom of Mustang, bordering the Tibetan plateau, is one of the most remote and isolated region of Nepalese Himalaya. Once an independe...

Martini Junction: A Miniature Railway Hidden in The Forest

Mar 7, 2016

In the small but densely wooded Needham town forest, outside Boston, lies a secret attraction — a miniature model railway consisting of 120 ...

A Blast From The Past: Episode 11

Mar 6, 2016

A collection of interesting articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s past archives. The Most Expensive Coffee in...

The Por-Bazhyn Fortress

Mar 4, 2016

In a small island in the center of a remote Lake Tere-Khol, high in the mountains of southern Siberia, close to the Mongolian border, lies t...

The Most Visually Impressive Impact Craters on Earth

Mar 3, 2016

It is estimated that the earth’s surface is struck by about 500 meteorites a year, but only about 5 or 6 are large enough to be detected by ...

Tarkhan Dress: The World’s Oldest Woven Garment

Mar 2, 2016

This tattered V-neck linen shirt, currently on display in the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, is the world’s oldest woven garment...

Lake Magadi, Kenya’s Pink Lake

Mar 2, 2016

Lake Magadi is located in the Great Rift Valley, in southern Kenya, in a vast depression whose bed is made almost entirely of solid or semis...

The Asbestos Ghost Town of Wittenoom

Mar 1, 2016

One of the most beautiful areas in the Pilbara region of Western Australia is also one of the most dangerous. About eighty years ago, blue a...