Inside Tokyo’s Tsukiji Market: The World’s Biggest Fish Market

Aug 17, 2016

Sandwiched between Sumida River and the upmarket Ginza shopping district, in Tsukiji in central Tokyo, is a large wholesale market for fruit...

Girard Henderson’s Luxurious Cold War Era Underground Bomb Shelter

Aug 16, 2016

During the Cold War, the US government launched a country-wide effort to prepare its citizens for a possible thermonuclear war. Children wer...

Survivor Trees Around The World

Aug 16, 2016

Every now and then, a calamity —either natural or man-made— strikes humanity and just when it appears that no living being could survive the...

A Blast From The Past: Episode 24

Aug 14, 2016

From the archives of Amusing Planet. What’s Cooking? - Cutaway Food Photography by Ryan Matthew Smith Ryan Matthew Smith’s photo series “M...

Beehive Fences: Using Bees To Keep Elephants Away From Crops

Aug 13, 2016

Protecting crops from raiding elephants is not an easy task for Africans farmers where wild elephants often roam free, until a group of Brit...

Cretto di Burri: The Concrete Labyrinth of Gibellina

Aug 12, 2016

On the Italian island of Sicily, about 70 km from the capital city Palermo, is a huge labyrinth of concrete hugging the side of a hill like ...

The Ancient Yew Forest of Kingley Vale

Aug 11, 2016

Tucked between Stoke Down and Bow Hill, near the village of West Stoke about three miles north west of Chichester, in West Sussex in souther...

Vietnamese Water Puppet Shows

Aug 11, 2016

For centuries, Vietnamese kids and grown-ups alike have been entertained by a unique kind of puppet show —one that is performed on water. Th...

America’s Strangest Conventions

Aug 10, 2016

For the last three years, American photographer Arthur Drooker has been to a dozen conventions across the country, photographing some of the...

Sultan Amir Ahmad Bathhouse

Aug 9, 2016

The Sultan Amir Ahmad Bathhouse in Kashan, Iran, is a 16th century public bathhouse built during the time of the Safavid empire, which ruled...

Cedars of Lebanon, The Cedars of God

Aug 9, 2016

The Lebanon Cedar or cedrus libani is one of the most majestic trees of the world. They grow exclusively on Mount Lebanon, a mountain range...

Kaninchenfeld: The Brass Rabbits of Berlin

Aug 9, 2016

Berlin was once divided into East and West Berlin by a massive concrete wall, the infamous Berlin Wall, that created a 155-km-long strip of ...

World’s Thinnest Observation Tower i360 Opens in Brighton

Aug 5, 2016

A shiny steel and glass, doughnut-shaped viewing platform rose up against a slender pole on the seafront of the English town of Brighton, ye...

US Wildlife Service Finds Similarities Between PokemonGo Characters And Actual Wildlife

Aug 5, 2016

Although I couldn’t care less about the recent PokemonGo foolery that’s appeared to have seized the world over, I find it highly amusing how...

China’s ‘Transit Elevated Bus’ Drives Above Traffic Jams

Aug 4, 2016

China has unveiled a futuristic ‘straddling bus’ that’s capable of driving over other cars stuck in nightmarish traffic jams which has becom...

Achille Knapen’s Air Well

Aug 4, 2016

Billboards and water bottles that produce drinking water out of thin air might look like breakthrough inventions, yet the principles behin...

Berat, The City of Thousand Windows

Aug 4, 2016

The city of Berat in south-central Albania, is renowned for its historic architecture and scenic beauty. A UNESCO World Heritage site, Berat...

The Pirate Island of ÃŽle Sainte Marie

Aug 2, 2016

The island of Sainte Marie, or Nosy Boraha, is a narrow granite island located five miles off the remote east coast of Madagascar. This post...

The Cliff House of San Francisco

Aug 2, 2016

Perched on the edge of a cliff, overlooking Ocean Beach, in San Francisco, is one of California’s oldest restaurant famous for its panoramic...

Unusual Drawbridge Railway Crossing in Australia

Aug 1, 2016

South of Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia, are a number of drawbridge-like crossings that carry 2-feet tracks of the Sugar Cane Railway ...