The Murals of Sherbrooke

Jun 9, 2016

Over the last fifteen years, the city of Sherbrooke, in southern Quebec, Canada, has been trying to animate its old downtown area by creatin...

The Alpine Lakes And Waterfalls of Jiuzhaigou

Jun 9, 2016

The Jiuzhaigou Valley, located at the foot of the snow-capped Minshan Mountain, in the north of Sichuan province, China, is a place of excep...

The Carnac Stone Alignments

Jun 8, 2016

Out of hundreds of megalithic sites across Europe, only a few has achieved popularity, such as the Stonehenge. But other sites are no less i...

The Goose Girl of Göttingen

Jun 8, 2016

Located halfway between Hamburg and Frankfurt, near to the Harz mountains, the town of Göttingen is best known for its university which was ...

The Drive-Through Trees of California

Jun 7, 2016

The giant redwoods of Northern California are the biggest trees in the world with trunks so thick that it’s possible to carve a small drivew...

The Mystery of Synchronous Fireflies

Jun 6, 2016

In the first few weeks of June, visitors to the Great Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, United States, are treated to a rare natural spe...

A Blast From The Past: Episode 19

Jun 5, 2016

A collection of interesting articles from Amusing Planet’s archives. Tall Tale Postcards of the Twentieth Century During the early years o...

Fliegeberg: Otto Lilienthal’s ‘Fly Mountain’

Jun 4, 2016

One of the major inspiration to the Wright brothers was the work of German pioneer of aviation, Otto Lilienthal, who repeatedly and successf...

The Temples of Humankind, Damanhur

Jun 4, 2016

In 1978, a group of about fifteen people belonging to a mysterious spiritual community called Damanhur, lead by its founder Oberto Airaudi, ...

The Devil’s Nose Railroad

Jun 3, 2016

When Ecuador President General Eloy Alfaro took office in 1895, and announced that a new railway line would be built connecting the coastal ...