Bishop Rock: The Smallest Island in the World

Jul 19, 2013

Bishop Rock is a small rocky ledge jutting out of the sea, 4 miles west of the Isles of Scilly in Cornwall. The rock rises from a depth of 4...

Anamorphic 3D Illusion Drawings by Alessandro Diddi

Jul 19, 2013

When Alessandro Diddi takes his pencil to paper, he makes drawings come to life. The 42-year-old Italian artist creates clever anamorphic p...

Floating Umbrellas Once Again Cover The Streets in Portugal

Jul 19, 2013

Remember the colorful floating umbrella installation on a street in the city of Agueda, Portugal, that we posted about last year? The city ...

Cocora Valley: The Valley of Palms

Jul 18, 2013

Wax palms or palma de cera is Colombia’s national tree and the world’s tallest palms. These palms grow exclusively in the high-altitude val...

Kubu Island: A Desert Island of Baobabs and Ancient Fossils

Jul 18, 2013

In the vast expanse of the great salt flats of Makgadikgadi in the north of the Kalahari, lies an isolated granite outcrop, some 10 meters h...

Mosaiculture Exhibition 2013 at Montreal Botanical Garden

Jul 17, 2013

Considered the world’s most prestigious competition of horticultural art, the 2013 edition of Mosaiculture is currently on display at Montr...

Silfra: The Crack Between Two Continents

Jul 16, 2013

Located in the Thingvallavatn Lake in the Thingvellir National Park in Iceland, Silfra is part of the Atlantic rift – the dividing line betw...

The Langkawi Sky Bridge in Malaysia

Jul 16, 2013

Langkawi Sky Bridge is a 125 meters curved pedestrian cable-stayed bridge, located at the peak of Gunung Mat Chinchang mountain, on Pulau La...

The Last House on Holland Island

Jul 16, 2013

Holland Island is located in the Chesapeake Bay in Holland Strait, between Bloodsworth Island and Smith Island, six miles west of Wenona, Ma...

Tower of Wind in Tokyo

Jul 15, 2013

Located just to the southeast of Tokyo's Haneda airport, in the middle of the ocean, is a rather interesting structure. Referred to as t...

Salton Sea - The Accidentally Created Lake

Jul 14, 2013

The Salton Sea is a shallow, saline lake located 226 feet below sea level, occupying the lowest elevations of the Salton Sink in the Colorad...

The Ghostly Remains of the Yacht “Mar Sem Fim”

Jul 12, 2013

Mar Sem Fim (“Endless Sea” in English) is a Brazilian yacht that was shipwrecked, sunk and subsequently got frozen in ice in Maxwell Bay of...

7 Highest Cities in the World

Jul 12, 2013

Like the microscopic bacteria, human beings too have learned to evolve and flourish in extreme conditions – from the scorching heat of the S...

7 Most Spectacular Spits on Earth

Jul 9, 2013

In geography, spit is a landform made by the deposition of sand by the movement of tides. Spits are narrow and elongated – one end is attach...

Beautiful Cinematic Paintings by Brian Tull

Jul 7, 2013

Coming from Nashville, Tennessee, artist Brian Tull uses both oil and acrylic paint to create photorealistic images that are heavily inspir...

Rhone Glacier Covered in Blankets to Slow Melting

Jul 7, 2013

The Rhone Glacier in the Swiss Alps is one of the oldest know glaciers in the Alps, and an important one ‘cause it gives rise to the Rhone R...

The Peculiar Architecture And Design of Eixample, Barcelona

Jul 6, 2013

Eixample is a district of the Spanish city of Barcelona, that lies between the old city and the surrounding small towns. The district was bu...

Chinese Beaches Once Again Hit by Invading Algae

Jul 5, 2013

The seas off China have been hit by the largest ever growth of algae. The vast swath of green growth is washing onto the shores of the Yello...

Jabuticaba: The Tree That Bear Fruits on its Trunk

Jul 3, 2013

Jabuticaba is a Brazilian grape tree found in the states of Minas Gerias and Sao Paulo, in the south of Brazil. The fruit grows directly fro...

Hyperrealistic Drawings of Rain on Windshield by Elizabeth Patterson

Jul 2, 2013

Los Angles based artist Elizabeth Patterson uses colored pencils and solvent to recreate, very faithfully, the absurdly complex formation t...