Los Angeles Reservoir Covered with 96 Million Plastic Balls to Fight Evaporation

Aug 11, 2015

Over the last few days, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power released 96 million black, plastic shade balls into a reservoir at the...

The Opulent Offices of Harbin Pharmaceuticals

Aug 11, 2015

Why are prescription drugs so expensive? Here is the answer. A few years ago, Harbin Pharmaceutical Group Co., Ltd., a Chinese state-owned ...

Eartha: World's Largest Rotating Globe

Aug 11, 2015

The world's largest rotating globe, nicknamed "Eartha", is located at the headquarters of DeLorme, a business that provides ma...

Cleft Island, Wilsons Promontory, Australia

Aug 10, 2015

Cleft Island, also known as Skull Rock, is a granite island located off the coast of Wilsons Promontory in the state of Victoria, in Austral...

‘Hope for Peace’ Monument in Yarze, Lebanon

Aug 10, 2015

The Lebanese Military Museum, dedicated for the preservation of old Lebanese military antiques, is located at the Ministry of National Defen...

Luzon Bleeding-Heart: A Dove That Looks Shot Through the Heart

Aug 10, 2015

The Luzon bleeding-heart ( Gallicolumba luzonica ) is a very shy and secretive species of dove endemic to the island of Luzon in Philippines...

Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling

Aug 8, 2015

For more than two hundred years the small English village of Brockworth in Gloucestershire has played host to the Cooper's Hill Cheese R...

Body Farms: Outdoor Research Facilities for Studying Decomposing Bodies

Aug 7, 2015

Less than forty years ago, our understanding of how the human body decomposes was limited. Much of what was known came from ancient studies ...

The Shiprock of New Mexico

Aug 7, 2015

Shiprock or "the winged rock" in Navajo, is a monolith composed of resistant volcanic rock that rises nearly 500 meters above the ...

The Mysterious Patomskiy Crater

Aug 6, 2015

In 1949 a geologist named Vadim Kolpakov discovered a large mound of limestone in the north of the Irkutsk region in southeastern Siberia, a...

The Circus of Bath

Aug 6, 2015

The Circus, Latin for “circular”, is an iconic building in the city of Bath, in Somerset, in England, consisting of three curved segments of...

China is Building The World's Largest Telescope

Aug 5, 2015

The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico will soon lose its title of the largest single aperture radio telescope ever constructed. The Chines...

The Slag Heaps of Loos-en-Gohelle

Aug 5, 2015

In the commune of Loos-en-Gohelle, a former mining town in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, are a series of five conical hills, of w...

Tanaka Tatsuya’s Miniature Calendar

Aug 5, 2015

Japanese artist Tanaka Tatsuya has been photographing his collection of diorama dolls interacting with everyday objects he finds around his ...

The Log House of Nikolay Sutyagin

Aug 4, 2015

Not many years ago, in northern Russia, on the outskirts of the city of Archangel, by the Dvina River, stood a tall wooden house — a whimsic...

Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant

Aug 4, 2015

The Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant is located at Disney's Hollywood Studios, one of the four main theme parks at Walt Disney World, i...

Kuthiny Baty: The Pumice Stone Valley

Aug 3, 2015

At the southern tip of Kamchatka Peninsula, within the Southern Kamchatka Wildlife Refuge in Russia, lies Kurile Lake in a large caldera tha...

The Great Polish Map of Scotland

Aug 3, 2015

The Great Polish Map of Scotland, also known as the Mapa Scotland, is a large three-dimensional, scale model of Scotland, with lakes, mounta...

The “Submarine Pits” on Boca Chica Key

Aug 1, 2015

Boca Chica Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys approximately 4.8 km east of the island of Key West, which itself is about 244 km sout...

Todra Gorge of Morocco

Aug 1, 2015

In the eastern part of the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco, near the town of Tinerhir, the Todra and the Dades Rivers have carved out a narr...