Showing posts from January, 2016

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...

‘Log House’ Like Cocoon of The Bagworm Moth

Jan 29, 2016

The bagworm moth (Psychidae) of the family Lepidoptera might be a pest for Botanists, but for Lepidopterists they are one of the rare archit...

Australian Farmer Fights Soil Erosion With Land Art

Jan 29, 2016

After a recent bushfire consumed all vegetation on his land, a South Australian farmer Brian Fischer decided to etch a gigantic geometric pa...

The Windmills of Lasithi Plateau

Jan 28, 2016

The Lasithi Plateau in eastern Crete, Greece, is situated 800 meters above sea level. Despite the high altitude, the water table here is ext...

Rio Celeste, The Blue River

Jan 28, 2016

Winding through the verdant rainforest of Tenorio Volcano National Park of Costa Rica, is a bright blue river called Rio Celeste. The river ...

Syrian Refugees Build Miniature Replicas of Country’s Destroyed Monuments

Jan 28, 2016

As war rages on in Syria, it’s only the people that refugee camps could provide protection to. The homes, the cities, the culture and the hi...

Neft Dasları: A City Built On Oil Platforms

Jan 27, 2016

Far out into the Caspian Sea, a hundred kilometers away from the Azerbaijani capital Baku, lies one of the most incredible settlements in th...

Villagers Scrap a Living Out of Abandoned Diamond Mine in Brazil

Jan 27, 2016

Deep in the heart of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, along the banks of the Rio Jequitinhonha, rural miners explore the massive open pi...

The Circular Laguna Garzon Bridge in Uruguay

Jan 26, 2016

When building bridges, engineers and architects don’t always look for the shortest possible crossing. The new ring-shaped bridge across Lagu...

A Blast From The Past: Episode 6

Jan 24, 2016

A collection of interesting articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s nearly 8-year-old archives. Cool Movie Illu...

Would You Live in a Luxury Resort That Was Once a Concentration Camp?

Jan 21, 2016

That’s the question angered family members of those who were imprisoned at a sea fort in the Adriatic Sea is asking, when the government app...

Underwater Museum at Cape Tarkhankut

Jan 21, 2016

About a hundred meters off the coast at Cape Tarhankut, the westernmost part of Crimea, at a depth of a ten to twelve meters is a unique mus...

The Ruins of Yugoslav Ministry of Defence Building in Belgrade

Jan 21, 2016

In 1999, about a dozen countries under the umbrella of NATO launched a military attack against Yugoslavia, which they said was an operation ...

World’s Most Beautiful And Outstanding Piers

Jan 20, 2016

Piers were originally built for the purpose of getting people and cargo from the boat to the shore without getting their feet wet, before th...

The First Flower Blooms in Space

Jan 19, 2016

A bright orange zinnia has grown for the first time in space, in zero gravity, and without soil. The zinnia, an edible flowering plant, was ...

Aerial Photography of Jassen Todorov

Jan 19, 2016

Jassen Todorov is not just a photographer. He is a licensed pilot, a professor of music at San Francisco State University, and an acclaimed...

Circumzenithal Arcs Or Upside Down Rainbows

Jan 19, 2016

Have you ever seen an inverted rainbow with its curved back towards the ground and ends pointing up, like a smile in the sky? Some people ca...

Plane With Detachable Cabin Makes Surviving Air Crash Possible

Jan 18, 2016

Russian Ukrainian aviation engineer Tatarenko Vladimir Nikolaevich has unveiled a new design for an airplane that might just make surviving...

Museum of Bees, Poyales del Hoyo

Jan 18, 2016

The Museum of Bees, in Poyales del Hoyo, Spain, provides a unique opportunity for visitors to safely watch these hardworking insects in acti...

Fairytale Like Christmas Celebration in Moscow

Jan 18, 2016

Christmas in Russia is different from Christmas celebrated in the rest of the world. For starters, they are celebrated on January 7, rather ...

Chien Chu Lee Carves Pencils Into Architectural Sculptures

Jan 18, 2016

Chien Chu Lee from Taiwan is a self-taught pencil carving artist who has mastered a remarkable art form. Lee has been carving pencils since...

Egypt Opens Middle East's First Fossil Museum

Jan 18, 2016

In the desert valley of Wadi al-Hitan, some 150 km southwest of Cairo, Egypt has unveiled what it said is the Middle East's first museum...

A Blast From The Past: Episode 5

Jan 17, 2016

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

Château d'Ussé, The Castle That Inspired “Sleeping Beauty”

Jan 16, 2016

Nestled on the edge of the Chinon forest and overlooking the banks of the River Indre, in the French commune of Rigny-Ussé, is the 15th cent...

The Twin Sails Bridge

Jan 14, 2016

The Twin Sails Bridge is a double leaved bascule bridge that spans the Backwater Channel in Holes Bay connecting the town center of Poole, i...

Mount Taranaki And Egmont National Park

Jan 14, 2016

Mount Taranaki, also known as Mount Egmont, on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island, is said to be one of the most symmetrical v...

World’s Largest Railway Model is Now on Google “Mini” Street View

Jan 14, 2016

Google’s Street View, that lets you explore the world through the virtual eyes of street level cameras, has now shrunk itself to the size of...

The Grand Bazaar of Istanbul

Jan 13, 2016

The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul is one of the largest and oldest covered markets in the world, encompassing a total of 61 covered streets and o...

The Gregynog Hall of Tregynon

Jan 13, 2016

The historic Gregynog Hall in the village of Tregynon, in Wales, UK, is a large country mansion whose brilliant black-and-white timber-frame...

Paolo Ventura’s Miniature Dioramas

Jan 13, 2016

Italian artist Paolo Ventura began his career as a fashion photographer before he became a storyteller, building highly detailed, miniature...

Emanuel Pavao’s Colored Tape Paintings

Jan 13, 2016

Toronto-based artist Emanuel Pavao creates unique work out art using a medium very few have been successful with —duct tapes. Pavao uses...

Tarr Steps: An Ancient ‘Clapper Bridge’ in Somerset

Jan 12, 2016

In the lonely moors of Devon and in other upland areas of the United Kingdom, the ancient people had built stone bridges by placing large fl...

The Corn Palace of South Dakota

Jan 12, 2016

The Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, is one of America’s corniest attraction. The palace is a regular building built of out of reinfor...

Whitesboro, The Village With The Most Racist Seal

Jan 11, 2016

Update: Residents have voted to keep the current seal rather than replace it. A few hours from now, residents of Whitesboro, in Oneida Coun...

The Babson Boulders Of Dogtown

Jan 11, 2016

The old community of Dogtown in Cape Ann in Massachusetts, was once home to respectable citizens. It was settled in the mid-17th century by ...

Sierra del Divisor National Park, Peru

Jan 11, 2016

The Sierra del Divisor region along the Peru-Brazil Border in the heart of the Amazon Basin, constitutes the world’s newest National Park, f...

A Blast From The Past: Episode 4

Jan 10, 2016

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

The Wedding Cake Rock, Australia

Jan 9, 2016

The Wedding Cake Rock is an unusual geological formation located just north of Marley Beach near Bundeena within the Royal National Park, in...

The Iron Zoo of Coalinga

Jan 9, 2016

Situated 190 miles south of San Jose, California, is the small town of Coalinga — a name derived by losing the middle term from “Coaling Sta...

The Mysore Palace of India

Jan 8, 2016

The historical Palace of Mysore in the city of Mysore in Karnataka, southern India, is one of India’s grandest royal buildings. It was the f...

Fishing For Bicycles in Amsterdam’s Canals

Jan 8, 2016

Amsterdam is the most bicycle-friendly city in the world, with 40% to 60% of all trips within the city made on bikes. Some estimate that th...

The Mausoleum of The Martyrdom of Polish Villages

Jan 7, 2016

A beautiful new World War 2 memorial is nearing completion in Michniów in south-central Poland. Set to open in 2016, the Mausoleum of the Ma...

Chinese Village Builds Giant Golden Statue of Mao Zedong

Jan 7, 2016

Mao Zedong, the founding father of the People's Republic of China, was a controversial figure. His Marxist–Leninist theories, military s...

The Avalanche Protection Wall of Flateyri

Jan 7, 2016

Flateyri is a small fishing village located on a narrow strip of land at the edge of the sea in the picturesque Westfjords, in northwest Ice...

The Unique Flower Auction at Aalsmeer

Jan 6, 2016

The Aalsmeer Flower Auction or Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer in Dutch, takes place in the town of Aalsmeer in North Holland near Amsterdam Schiph...

Russky Bridge: Russia’s Billion-Dollar Vanity Bridge

Jan 6, 2016

Throughout the history of civilization, bridges have been constructed to connect cities across waterways and over unfavorable terrain so tha...

The Forsby-Köping Limestone Cableway

Jan 5, 2016

From the limestone quarry at Forsby in Vingåker municipality, to the cement factory at Köping in central Sweden, once ran one of the world’s...

Asia’s Largest Man-Made Waterfall Opens in China

Jan 5, 2016

The largest man-made waterfall in Asia has opened to the public in Kunming in China’s Yunnan Province. The waterfalls is 12.5 meters high an...

The Alphabets From Space

Jan 5, 2016

In July 2012, while working on a story about wildfires, NASA’s science writer and social media manager Adam P. Voiland spotted a V-shaped pl...