Pre-Inca Salt Pools at Maras, Peru

Apr 9, 2013

Located 40 kilometers north of Cuzco in Peru, in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, lies the town of Maras, well known for its nearby salt evap...

Where the Namib Desert meets the Sea

Apr 9, 2013

The Southern Namib desert is home to some of the tallest and most spectacular dunes of the world, ranging in color from pink to vivid orange...

Neptune Memorial Reef: An Underwater Cemetery

Apr 8, 2013

Originally known as the Atlantis Memorial Reef, the Neptune Memorial Reef is an underwater mausoleum for cremated remains. Located 3.25 mile...

Creative Food Art by Hong Yi

Apr 8, 2013

Hong Yi is a talented Malaysian artist and architect who uses all sorts of unconventional objects to create portraits. She was featured twi...

Sunken Observation Platform in the Middle of a Pond

Apr 8, 2013

There is a clever observation platform built into a pond in  Vöcklabruck, Austria. The platform, rather than being raised, is sunken into th...

Complexities of Airports Photographed From Above

Apr 8, 2013

Some of you readers may remember Jeffrey Milstein from his photographs of the underbellies of aircraft , which he captured by standing at th...

The Thorne Miniature Rooms

Apr 5, 2013

In a special wing at the Art Institute of Chicago, and in the Phoenix Art Museum, are several exhibits of incredibly detailed miniature room...

The White Towns of Andalusia

Apr 4, 2013

In southern Spain, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, between the Atlantic in the west and the Mediterranean in the east, lies some o...

Mysterious Fairy Circles of Namibia

Apr 4, 2013

In the grasslands of southern Africa, there are thousands of circular barren patches of land called ‘fairy circles’. They grow between 2 met...

Urban Landscape Paintings by Marc Trujillo

Apr 3, 2013

American painter Marc Trujillo depicts places in his paintings that are omnipresent in American urban and suburban landscapes such as gas st...