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 ...