SAIL Amsterdam

Aug 17, 2015

SAIL Amsterdam is one of the biggest attractions in Amsterdam and the greatest nautical spectacle in the world where scores of tall ships an...

Bekonscot: The World’s Oldest Model Village

Aug 17, 2015

Bekonscot is a toy village located in the English town of Beaconsfield, in Buckinghamshire. Spread out over 1.5 acres, this Lilliputian vill...

The 1,444 Carved Pillars of Ranakpur Jain Temple No Two of Which Are Alike

Aug 15, 2015

Ranakpur is a village located in the lush green valley of Aravalli mountain ranges in Pali district of Rajasthan, in western India. It is ho...

Europe’s Disappearing Borders by Valerio Vincenzo

Aug 14, 2015

Ever since the Schengen Agreement was signed in 1985, internal borders between a large number of European countries are gradually disappeari...

‘The Force of Nature’ by Lorenzo Quinn

Aug 14, 2015

“The Force of Nature” is a series of sculptures by Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn depicting mother nature as a woman hurling the planet aroun...

Ohio’s BibleWalk Museum is Made Up Of Discarded Celebrity Wax Figures

Aug 14, 2015

Ohio’s only life-size wax museum, BibleWalk, is located in the city of Mansfield. A tribute to Christianity, the museum has more than 300 fi...

Cross Sea: When Two Waves Meet

Aug 13, 2015

This strange pattern at sea is what happens when two wave systems cross each other at nearly perpendicular angles. This can occur when waves...

The "Big Oil Bubble", a Chinese Knockoff of Chicago’s Famous “Bean”

Aug 13, 2015

China’s latest knockoff of a widely recognizable landmark is taking shape in the city of Karmay. It’s a huge shiny, bean-shaped sculpture th...

Scars of World War I: The Battlefield of Verdun

Aug 12, 2015

One of the longest and deadliest battle of the First World War was fought over a small parcel of land in north-eastern France, near the comm...

The 100 Stepped Garden of Awaji Yumebutai

Aug 12, 2015

Awaji Yumebutai is a complex of buildings consisting of a conference center, a hotel and a memorial in the city of Awaji located in an islan...

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...