The Hellish Gold Mines of Serra Pelada

Feb 4, 2016

In the early 1980s, Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado travelled to the mines of Serra Pelada, some 430 kilometers south of the mouth ...

Europe's First Underwater Sculpture Museum

Feb 4, 2016

The island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, Spain, has set up of the first set of sculptures in what will be the first completely underwa...

The Mysterious Marree Man of South Australia

Feb 3, 2016

In June 1998 a local pilot flying over the remote South Australian desert discovered an enormous drawing of an Aboriginal man hunting with a...

Satellite Images or Microscopic Photos?

Feb 3, 2016

While going through my daily reading list, one particular image posted on the Tumblr blog Daily Overview, which publishes high quality satel...

The Belogradchik Fortress, Bulgaria

Feb 2, 2016

Located on the north slopes of the Balkan Mountains, close to the northwestern Bulgarian town of Belogradchik, is the Belogradchik Fortress,...

Dominic Wilcox Turns Kids’ Crazy Inventions Into Real Products

Feb 2, 2016

We all have brilliant ideas for products that could make certain chores easier to perform if only they could be turned into reality. With th...

The Carved Stone Balls of Scotland

Feb 1, 2016

For the last 150 years archeologists have been digging up a peculiar class of objects in north-east Scotland. They are small carved stone ba...

The Sinking of Steamboat Arabia And its Discovery in a Cornfield

Feb 1, 2016

On September 1856, a steamboat named Arabia left Kansas up the Missouri river on a routine trip, carrying two hundred tons of supplies for s...

A Blast From The Past: Episode 7

Jan 31, 2016

A collection of interesting articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s nearly 8-year-old archives. EIZO Pin-up Cal...

The Beautiful Floor Mosaics of Venice

Jan 30, 2016

Sightseeing around Venice generally involves sticking your nose up in the air marveling at historic buildings and sprawling vistas, but that...