Agate is a crystalized form of silica, made up primarily of chalcedony, a type of quartz that is composed of very fine intergrowths of the m...
The Valley of Butterflies, also known as Petaloudes Valley, is located on the western side of the Greek island of Rhodes, about 25 kilometer...
Bus stops come in all shapes and sizes . In the small Japanese town of Konagai, in the outskirts of Isahaya, in Nagasaki Prefecture, they c...
The Mingun Pahtodawgyi or Minigun Paya in the town of Mingun, approximately 10 km northwest of Mandalay in central Myanmar, is a massive unf...
Ever since the city of Memphis, in the southwestern corner of the US state of Tennessee, was named after the ancient Egyptian capital that s...
“ Processed Views ” is a thought provoking photo series by Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman who used familiar American junk food to create...
Of all wildlife crossings man constructed to minimize human-wildlife conflict, one which caught more attention of the humans and media than...
Alaska has an extensive coastline, longer than that of all the other US states combined. Some estimate it to be more than 49,000 miles lone,...
Beach cusps are one of the strangest natural formation along the water’s edge. They are made up of a rhythmic pattern of small cusps and bay...
The Horsetail Firefall in Yosemite National Park in California is an amazing spectacle. It’s a seasonal waterfall that flows in the winter a...
The U.S. state of Oregon has at least 19 lakes named “Lost Lake”, but possibly only one fits the name. This particular Lost Lake is located ...
On Saturday August 29, 2015, in the suburban town of Likino-Dulyovo, 98 kilometers northeast of Moscow, a new monument was unveiled. It’s tr...
In the Rotorua district, in northern New Zealand, about 25 kilometers to the east of the city of Rotorua, were two small lakes known to the ...
Port McNeill is a small town in the North Island region of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. Located on the island's north-...
Perched on top of a rocky hill overlooking the Colorado River, in the town of Yuma, in the far southwest corner of the state of Arizona, sta...
Pele's hair are naturally occurring fine fibers of volcanic glass that form when hot molten lava is thrown into the air during explosive...
You may have heard about those temporary ice hotels that Sweden, Norway and some of those near-Arctic-circle countries put up during the win...
In the 1920s, pilots of the Royal Air Force flying over the deserts of Israel, Jordan and Egypt saw strange line shapes in the ground that t...
Crown shyness or canopy disengagement is a phenomenon observed in some tree species in which the crowns of neighboring trees of similar heig...
The Manpupuner rock formations are a set of 7 gigantic stone pillars located on a flat plateau, west of the Ural mountains in the Troitsko-P...
