Showing posts with the label Landmarks

Holmdel Horn Antenna: Where The Big Bang Was Discovered

Oct 26, 2023

Physicists and astronomers believe that the universe began with the Big Bang—a cataclysmic event that occurred roughly 13 billion years ago ...

The Warsaw Radio Mast

Oct 24, 2023

Some radio transmitters are built to great heights in order to reach audiences far and wide. In fact, nine out of ten structures taller than...

Rozabal Shrine: The Tomb of Jesus

Oct 23, 2023

In the Khanyar area of Kashmir, India, in downtown Srinagar, there is an old shrine—a modest stone building with a traditional Kashmiri mult...

The Shipwrecks of Fylde Coast

Oct 10, 2023

The Fylde coast in western Lancashire have seen some of the foulest weather in England’s northwest coast. The area around Blackpool is in pa...

F60 Overburden Conveyor Bridge: The Horizontal Eiffel Tower

Oct 9, 2023

About 60 km north of Dresden, in Lichterfeld-Schacksdorf in Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany, lies a steel behemoth. It’s a gigantic over...

Falowiec: The Wave Building of Gdańsk

Aug 31, 2023

In the late 1960s and the early 1970s, a series of peculiarly shaped apartment blocks were constructed in the Polish city of Gdańsk. They we...

Purton Hulks: The Ship Graveyard

Aug 30, 2023

One of the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain was created not by accident, but by the deliberate sinking of tens of old trawler and ...

Sad Hill Cemetery

Aug 28, 2023

About 30 kilometers southeast of Burgos, a charming city in the Castilla y León region of northern Spain, rests a rather expansive cemetery....

PLTD Apung 1: The Tsunami Ship Memorial

Aug 24, 2023

Less than a kilometer from the Tsunami Museum in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, stands another monument that conveys the true power of nature that w...

Uraniborg: An Observatory Without a Telescope

Aug 22, 2023

Before the invention of the telescope, astronomers relied on a variety of tools and techniques to observe and study the celestial objects an...