Damme Canal: The Canal That Napoleon Built To Avoid The British Navy

Oct 26, 2018

A popular way to see the beautiful city of Bruges in Belgium is from a boat cruising along the city’s many canals. The historic city center ...

Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge: The World's Longest Sea Crossing

Oct 24, 2018

The world’s longest sea crossing connecting Hong Kong with Macau and Zhuhai opened this week in China. The unusual bridge cum tunnel system ...

Offa’s Dyke: The 1,200-Years-Old Dyke Separating Wales From England

Oct 24, 2018

In south-west England, there runs a great earthwork from the mouth of River Dee near Chester, to the estuary of River Severn near Chepstow, ...

Rectangular Iceberg

Oct 24, 2018

Nature follows specific laws, but results are often irregular and asymmetric like clouds and coastline and ocean waves. So when NASA scienti...

Morocco’s Abandoned Movie Sets in The Desert

Oct 23, 2018

In the early 1960s, movie director David Lean was scouting for locations to shoot his upcoming movie Lawrence of Arabia when he learned abo...

Michigan’s Massive Copper Boulders

Oct 23, 2018

In the early 17th century, fur traders traversing Lake Superior in North America heard tales of a fabulous boulder lying on the banks of the...

Chindōgu: The Japanese Art of Unuseless Inventions

Oct 18, 2018

You have definitely seen a chindōgu. They are those ridiculous Japanese inventions designed to solve a particular problem but are, in fact, ...

The Lighthouse That Wrecked More Ships Than it Saved

Oct 17, 2018

For more than forty years a lighthouse stood on a large anvil-shaped peninsula jutting into the Tasman Sea near Jervis Bay, in southern Aust...

Michael Pederson’s Fake Street Signs

Oct 17, 2018

Sydney-based artist Michael Pederson creates small signs with humorous messages and tucks them all around his home city at places where you ...

The Churches of Chiloé Island

Oct 17, 2018

Off the coast of Chile, a group of about thirty islands belonging to the Chiloé Archipelago make up a fiercely independent community with it...