Showing posts from February, 2017

The Fortress of Mimoyecques

Feb 28, 2017

About twenty kilometers from the city of Boulogne-sur-Mer, near the hamlet of Mimoyecques, in northern France, lies a once-secret undergroun...

The Colorful Mansions of El Alto

Feb 28, 2017

Spread out across the Bolivian highlands, at 4,000 meters, the city of El Alto is predominantly ochre-red, with thousands of low, matchbox-l...

Isa lake: The Two-Ocean Lake

Feb 27, 2017

The Isa Lake Viewpoint, located about 8 miles east of the Old Faithful Area along the Grand Loop Road in Yellowstone National Park, is not a...

Project Habakkuk: Britain’s Secret Ship Made of Ice

Feb 24, 2017

Desperate times call for desperate measures, and no time in history was as desperate as the time when the world’s most powerful nations were...

Pioneertown: A Movie Set That Became A Real Town

Feb 23, 2017

In 1946, a bunch of Hollywood legends including Roy Rogers, Dick Curtis, and Russell Hayden —tired of travelling to far-off locations to sho...

The Mysterious Gotland Grooves

Feb 23, 2017

Scattered throughout the island of Gotland, in the middle of the Baltic Sea, are thousands of stones with strange grooves or furrows cut int...

The Crypt of Civilization

Feb 22, 2017

Under the foundation of Phoebe Hearst Memorial Hall at Oglethorpe University in Georgia, the United States, is a large room, that was sealed...

Postman’s Park’s Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice

Feb 21, 2017

Tucked away in a quiet corner of Postman's Park in central London, easily overlooked, lies a remarkable memorial. Under a wooden canopy,...

Sarajevo Tunnel: The Tunnel of Hope

Feb 20, 2017

Five meters below the runway of Sarajevo's airport runs a short stretch of tunnel that was dug out during the Siege of Sarajevo to bring...

Elgin Marbles: A Piece of The Parthenon in London

Feb 20, 2017

Should a museum keep artistic treasures it acquired under dubious circumstances a long time ago, or should it return them to their country o...

A Blast From The Past: Episode 33

Feb 19, 2017

From the archives of Amusing Planet. Tristan da Cunha - The Most Remote Island in the World Tristan da Cunha is a volcanic island in the m...

Floating Houses of Lake Bokodi

Feb 17, 2017

Lake Bokodi, in the village of Bokod, about 80 kilometers west of Budapest, Hungary, is an artificial lake created in 1961 by the Oroszlány ...

The Romantic Tale Of The Chicken Farmer Rock

Feb 16, 2017

Verona might be the birthplace of the most famous love story in literature, but the small village of Newbury, in the state of New Hampshire,...

The Mystery of Carolina Bays

Feb 16, 2017

In the 1930s, when the Atlantic coast was being photographed from airplanes for the first time in history, a curious geological feature came...

The Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou

Feb 15, 2017

The town of Ait-Ben-Haddou, located on the southern slopes of the High Atlas Mountains, is one of the most spectacular manmade sights along ...

The Russian Gangster Cemetery in Yekaterinburg

Feb 14, 2017

The Shirokorechenskoe Cemetery, located on the southwestern outskirts of Yekaterinburg, in Russia, is the final resting place of many famous...

The Waffle Rock

Feb 13, 2017

Just outside the visitor center of Jennings Randolph Lake, in Mineral County, in the US state of West Virginia, is a large piece of rock on ...

Point Nemo: The Spacecraft Cemetery

Feb 13, 2017

Far off the east coast of New Zealand, about 3,300 kilometers out in the Pacific Ocean, lies one of the geekiest junkyard in the world. It’s...

The Grave With A Window

Feb 10, 2017

There is a curious grave at Evergreen Cemetery in the West River neighborhood of New Haven, Vermont, the United States. It’s a small grassy ...

Lungfish, The Fish That Lives On Land

Feb 9, 2017

The lungfish, also known as salamanderfish, is a type of freshwater fish best known for its ability to live on land, without water, for mont...

Verkhoyansk: Siberia’s Pole of Cold

Feb 9, 2017

In the remote Yakutia region of Siberia, more than a hundred kilometers inside the Arctic Circle, lies the small town of Verkhoyansk. Winter...

The Hermits of Karoulia of Mount Athos

Feb 8, 2017

Mount Athos, located on a Greek peninsula in the Aegean Sea, is home to one of the oldest surviving monastic community on Earth. The mountai...

The Bear Moat of Český Krumlov Castle

Feb 7, 2017

The historic Český Krumlov Castle in the small city of Český Krumlov, in the Czech Republic, was built in the mid-13th century by the powerf...

The Sundial Cannon of Ã…tvidaberg

Feb 7, 2017

In the not-too-distant past, before the invention of modern timekeeping devices, noontime —the moment when the sun is at the highest positio...

Santa Cruz Del Islote: A Crowded Utopia

Feb 6, 2017

Santa Cruz del Islote is a tiny coral island, and one of the smallest, in the archipelago of San Bernardo off the coast of Colombia. It is o...

Alert: The Most Northern Settlement in The World

Feb 3, 2017

Located just over eight hundred kilometers away from the North Pole, the community of Alert, on the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island, in...

A Spotlight Of Snow

Feb 3, 2017

The other day, NASA’s Earth Observatory posted some interesting pictures about localized snow in the Netherlands. Several fields in Heensch...

Glass Beach on Ussuri Bay

Feb 2, 2017

Just a 30-minute-drive away from the city of Vladivostok, Russia, lies a stunning bay surrounded by impressive cliffs. Not very long ago, th...

The Sunken Lanes of Europe

Feb 2, 2017

Appearing as trenches dredged through the earth or tunnels cleared through forests, these ancient pathways called holloways or sunken lanes ...

Checkerboard Forest

Feb 1, 2017

If you pull up Google Maps and look at the forested areas of Western United States, you’ll notice strange checkerboard patterns, like the on...