Dutch Prisons Are Being Converted Into Hotels And Apartments Because of Lack of Prisoners

Nov 8, 2018

The Netherlands has a problem with prisons and prisoners, just like any other country. But while the rest of the world is struggling with ov...

ATLAS-I: The Cold War-Era Facility That Tested The Effects of EMP on Military Aircraft

Nov 7, 2018

Flying in and out of Albuquerque, in New Mexico, the United States, one can catch a glimpse of a gigantic wooden trestle standing in the mid...

The Buried Village of Al Madam

Nov 7, 2018

About two kilometers south-west of Al Madam, a small town along the old Dubai-Hatta road, is a spooky little abandoned settlement. It was on...

Brine Pools: The Underwater Lakes of Despair

Nov 5, 2018

Just like there are waterfalls underneath oceans , there can be lakes on seabed too. One is kept separate from the surrounding body of wate...

Letters of Utrecht: The Endless Poem

Nov 3, 2018

In the Dutch city of Utrecht, a poem is growing—one letter at a time, every week, for the past six years. Every Saturday, at around one in...

Killer Wasps And Zombie Cockroaches

Nov 2, 2018

The emerald jewel wasp is a deadly and venomous insect, like all wasps are. Their sting can be excruciatingly painful for humans. Neverthele...

Beijing’s Underground City

Nov 1, 2018

One of the entrance to the Underground City in Beijing. Photo credit: Scott Sherrill-Mix/Flickr In the late 1950s, relation between the tw...

India Unveils World’s Tallest Statue

Oct 31, 2018

The controversial Statue of Unity dedicated to India’s first deputy prime minister, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, was unveiled today at a remo...

Foucault Pendulum And The Pantheon

Oct 31, 2018

In the old Latin quarter in Paris, stands a magnificent 18th century building—the temple to all the gods, the Pantheon. Originally construct...

The Disgusting Food Museum

Oct 30, 2018

A new museum aimed to assault the olfactory senses of visitors and churn their stomach opened yesterday in Sweden’s third largest city, Mal...

Horse-Drawn Boats

Oct 30, 2018

Before diesel and electric engines made sailing convenient, boats and barges had to be either rowed or pulled. In many European countries su...

The Ziggurat of Choga Zanbil

Oct 30, 2018

The Egyptians had pyramids, the Mesopotamians had ziggurats, which are massive brick structures with raised platforms with successively rece...

Maison Carrée, The Most Intact Roman Temple

Oct 26, 2018

Maison Carrée in Nimes, France . Photo credit: Lamax/Shutterstock.com The Maison Carrée in the city of Nimes, in southern France, is the o...

The Mines of Messines Ridge

Oct 26, 2018

About 8 kilometers south of Ypres, in the middle of a farm, is a small green pond known as the “Pool of Peace”, but its creation was a rathe...

Damme Canal: The Canal That Napoleon Built To Avoid The British Navy

Oct 26, 2018

A popular way to see the beautiful city of Bruges in Belgium is from a boat cruising along the city’s many canals. The historic city center ...

Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge: The World's Longest Sea Crossing

Oct 24, 2018

The world’s longest sea crossing connecting Hong Kong with Macau and Zhuhai opened this week in China. The unusual bridge cum tunnel system ...

Offa’s Dyke: The 1,200-Years-Old Dyke Separating Wales From England

Oct 24, 2018

In south-west England, there runs a great earthwork from the mouth of River Dee near Chester, to the estuary of River Severn near Chepstow, ...

Rectangular Iceberg

Oct 24, 2018

Nature follows specific laws, but results are often irregular and asymmetric like clouds and coastline and ocean waves. So when NASA scienti...

Morocco’s Abandoned Movie Sets in The Desert

Oct 23, 2018

In the early 1960s, movie director David Lean was scouting for locations to shoot his upcoming movie Lawrence of Arabia when he learned abo...

Michigan’s Massive Copper Boulders

Oct 23, 2018

In the early 17th century, fur traders traversing Lake Superior in North America heard tales of a fabulous boulder lying on the banks of the...