‘Fallen Star’, University of California, San Diego

Aug 27, 2016

Teetering on the corner and edge of Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, is a small cottage that appears...

NASA’s Mars Explorers Recruitment Posters

Aug 26, 2016

Continuing with the theme of imaginary space-based scenarios, NASA has released a new set of posters calling for explorers to join them on t...

Polar Stratospheric Clouds And Their Dark Secret

Aug 26, 2016

Sometimes deep into the winter, after sunset or before dawn, sheets of unbelievably bright and vividly colored clouds can be seen forming ag...

Casa di Giulietta: Juliet’s House in Verona

Aug 26, 2016

Shakespeare’s famous play “Romeo and Juliet” maybe a work of fiction, but that hasn’t stopped hundreds of thousands of romantics from making...

Subway Pushers of Japan

Aug 24, 2016

The Japanese rail network is known throughout the world for its superiority and punctuality. In the capital city Tokyo, nearly 40 million pa...

Campo Del Cielo Meteorite Field

Aug 23, 2016

About 4,000 to 5,000 years ago, a huge chunk of space rock fell in Argentina, but it didn’t fell in one piece. It broke up as it entered the...

Monument to The Conquerors of Space

Aug 23, 2016

In the early 1960s, the Soviet Union was way ahead of the United States in the space race. They launched the first artificial satellite of e...

The Dead Cities of Syria

Aug 19, 2016

Scattered across the vast Limestone Massif, in the northwest of Syria, between the Orontes and Afrin Rivers to the west and the Aleppo/Hama ...

Sperrgebiet: The National Park You Can’t Visit

Aug 19, 2016

In southwestern Namibia lies a vast area that’s been off-limits to visitors for more than a century. It stretches along the Namibian coast f...

Artist Creates Record-Breaking Mural For Rio Olympics

Aug 17, 2016

While athletes compete for various titles at Rio’s ongoing Olympic Games, one Brazilian graffiti artist Eduardo Kobra is attempting to enter...

Faro a Colon: The Columbus Lighthouse

Aug 17, 2016

In Santo Domingo Este of Dominican Republic, is a towering monument dedicated to Christopher Columbus. It’s called “Faro a Colon”, which is ...

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...