A Blast From The Past: Episode 21

Jul 10, 2016

From the archives of Amusing Planet. A Place Called Earth Earth is a small town in Lamb County, West Texas, United States and is possibly ...

The Valley of the Saints, Brittany

Jul 9, 2016

High on a sloping hillside in the Commune of Carnoet, in Brittany in northwestern France, a large scale project is underway, one that hopes ...

Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site

Jul 9, 2016

The Soviet Union’s nuclear program started soon after the end of the Second World War. Tests were conducted in many remote regions such as t...

Leviathan of Parsonstown

Jul 8, 2016

In 1845, William Parsons, an Irish nobleman and the third Earl of Rosse, constructed a large telescope with an enormous 6-feet wide mirror o...

Malaya Zemlya Memorial

Jul 8, 2016

The Malaya Zemlya Memorial in Novorossiysk, Russia, pays homage to a little known but important battle of the Second World War, that eventua...

Sarajevo Roses: Mortar Scars Filled With Red Resin as War Memories

Jul 7, 2016

During the Bosnian War of 1992-95, the city of Sarajevo was under siege by the Serbian army for a period of 44 months —the longest siege of ...

Sarai Batu: The Reconstructed 13th Century Capital City of The Golden Horde

Jul 6, 2016

The ancient city of Sarai Batu was located on the lower stretch of the Volga River, about 120 km north of the modern city of Astrakhan in pr...

Fort Alexander, Saint Petersburg

Jul 6, 2016

The city of Saint Petersburg at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea, was once protected by a string of forts across the gulf. ...

Spaso-Kamenny Monastery

Jul 5, 2016

The Spaso-Kamenny Monastery is located in a small island in the middle of Kubensky Lake, in Ust-Kubinsky District of Vologda Oblast, about 5...

Abandoned Kennicott Copper Mining Town, Alaska

Jul 5, 2016

The old mining town of Kennicott in the US state of Alaska is located on the south slopes of Wrangell mountain close to the Kennicott Glacie...