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...