Winchester Mystery House: The House That Sarah Couldn’t Stop Building

Nov 1, 2016

Standing in the middle of suburban San Jose, California, is a sprawling Victorian mansion surrounded by beautifully kept gardens, which from...

Rujm el-Hiri: Israel’s Stonehenge

Nov 1, 2016

This ancient megalith monument, consisting of concentric stone circles and a tumulus at the center, although looks impressive from the air, ...

A Blast From The Past: Episode 28

Oct 30, 2016

From the archives of Amusing Planet. World's Littlest Skyscraper Located at 701 LaSalle Street in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas, is th...

Lucky Knot Bridge in Changsha, China

Oct 29, 2016

A curvaceous new footbridge inspired by the Mobius strip has opened in Changsha, China, that offers pedestrians a variety of different route...

Saar Polygon: A Monument to Coal Mining in Germany

Oct 29, 2016

On June 2012, the last of the coal mines operating in the Saarland region in west Germany closed, marking the end of a 250-year history of m...

Campbell–Stokes Recorder: A Simple Device That Measures Sunshine

Oct 28, 2016

This crystal ball located outside Darwin Airport Meteorological Office, in Darwin, Australia, doesn’t look into the future, but provides inv...

The Mysterious Cart Tracks of Phrygia Valley

Oct 28, 2016

In the Phrygian Valley of Turkey, in the west central part of Anatolia, are numerous so called “cart tracks” that crisscross across the land...

La Boca: Buenos Aires’ Colorful District

Oct 27, 2016

The neighborhood of La Boca, in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires, is famous for two things —the football stadium La Bombonera, and El C...

The Town of Bull Puns

Oct 27, 2016

One hundred sixty kilometers north of Wellington, in New Zealand, at the junction of State Highways 1 and 3, lies the small town of Bulls. Y...

The Salt Valley of Añana

Oct 27, 2016

Salado Valley, in the town of Añana, in northern Spain, is rich in salt but the terrain is unwieldy. Especially, there is a shortage of flat...

Pheasant Island: The Island That Changes Sovereignty Every Six Months

Oct 25, 2016

Less than six kilometers before river Bidasoa, near the French-Spanish border, empties into the Atlantic Ocean, there lies a small river isl...

The Astronaut Beach House

Oct 24, 2016

Before astronauts get suited up and launched into space, they spends their final days relaxing with their wives and kids in a private beach ...

Temppeliaukio Church, Helsinki

Oct 24, 2016

In the Töölö neighborhood of Helsinki, Finland, in the middle of an ordinary residential square, a scene from the Steven Spielberg's mov...

Struve Geodetic Arc: The 2,820 Km Line That Produced The First Accurate Measurement of The Earth’s Size

Oct 21, 2016

From the northern coast of Norway to the southern coast of Ukraine runs a chain of survey triangulation points that together forms the Struv...

The Sunken City of Baiae

Oct 20, 2016

The ancient Roman city of Baiae, on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Naples, was once a popular coastal resort famous for its idyllic loca...

Mapparium: The World’s Only Inside-Out Globe

Oct 20, 2016

The Mapparium at Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston, Massachusetts, is a huge, 30 foot tall globe of bronze and glass that has no parallel an...

The 870-Year Old Historic Sausage Kitchen of Regensburg

Oct 19, 2016

One hundred twenty five kilometers north of Munich lies the old medieval town of Regensburg, situated at the confluence of three rivers —the...

The Ancient Roman Walls of Hisarya

Oct 19, 2016

Located on the outskirts of the Sredna Gora mountain range, about 40 km north of Plovdiv, in Central Bulgaria, lies the ancient town of Hisa...

Boulder Field of Hickory Run State Park

Oct 17, 2016

Hickory Run State Park, located in northern Carbon County, on the Pocono Plateau of northeastern Pennsylvania, is home to one of the most st...

The Forgotten Tunnel Under Naples Filled With Vintage Cars

Oct 17, 2016

One hundred and fifty meters from the large public square of Piazza del Plebiscito in central Naples, Italy, is an entrance that descends ab...