A Blast From The Past: Episode 7
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...
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...
Sightseeing around Venice generally involves sticking your nose up in the air marveling at historic buildings and sprawling vistas, but that...
The bagworm moth (Psychidae) of the family Lepidoptera might be a pest for Botanists, but for Lepidopterists they are one of the rare archit...
After a recent bushfire consumed all vegetation on his land, a South Australian farmer Brian Fischer decided to etch a gigantic geometric pa...
The Lasithi Plateau in eastern Crete, Greece, is situated 800 meters above sea level. Despite the high altitude, the water table here is ext...
Winding through the verdant rainforest of Tenorio Volcano National Park of Costa Rica, is a bright blue river called Rio Celeste. The river ...
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...
Far out into the Caspian Sea, a hundred kilometers away from the Azerbaijani capital Baku, lies one of the most incredible settlements in th...
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...
When building bridges, engineers and architects don’t always look for the shortest possible crossing. The new ring-shaped bridge across Lagu...
A collection of interesting articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s nearly 8-year-old archives. Cool Movie Illu...
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...
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...
In 1999, about a dozen countries under the umbrella of NATO launched a military attack against Yugoslavia, which they said was an operation ...
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...
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 ...
Jassen Todorov is not just a photographer. He is a licensed pilot, a professor of music at San Francisco State University, and an acclaimed...
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...
Russian Ukrainian aviation engineer Tatarenko Vladimir Nikolaevich has unveiled a new design for an airplane that might just make surviving...
The Museum of Bees, in Poyales del Hoyo, Spain, provides a unique opportunity for visitors to safely watch these hardworking insects in acti...
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 from Taiwan is a self-taught pencil carving artist who has mastered a remarkable art form. Lee has been carving pencils since...
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 collection of interesting and noteworthy articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s nearly 8-year old archives. ...
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 is a double leaved bascule bridge that spans the Backwater Channel in Holes Bay connecting the town center of Poole, i...
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...
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 in Istanbul is one of the largest and oldest covered markets in the world, encompassing a total of 61 covered streets and o...
The historic Gregynog Hall in the village of Tregynon, in Wales, UK, is a large country mansion whose brilliant black-and-white timber-frame...
Italian artist Paolo Ventura began his career as a fashion photographer before he became a storyteller, building highly detailed, miniature...
Toronto-based artist Emanuel Pavao creates unique work out art using a medium very few have been successful with —duct tapes. Pavao uses...
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 in Mitchell, South Dakota, is one of America’s corniest attraction. The palace is a regular building built of out of reinfor...
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 old community of Dogtown in Cape Ann in Massachusetts, was once home to respectable citizens. It was settled in the mid-17th century by ...
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 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 is an unusual geological formation located just north of Marley Beach near Bundeena within the Royal National Park, in...
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 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...
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...
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...
Mao Zedong, the founding father of the People's Republic of China, was a controversial figure. His Marxist–Leninist theories, military s...
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 Aalsmeer Flower Auction or Bloemenveiling Aalsmeer in Dutch, takes place in the town of Aalsmeer in North Holland near Amsterdam Schiph...
Throughout the history of civilization, bridges have been constructed to connect cities across waterways and over unfavorable terrain so tha...
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...
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...
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...