Longleat Hedge Maze: The Longest in The World

Sep 4, 2014

Longleat Hedge Maze is located in the garden of the English stately home of Longleat, situated adjacent to the village of Horningsham and ne...

Photos of Limestone Blasting by Naoya Hatakeyama

Sep 4, 2014

These pictures are part of a series called “Blast” taken by Japanese photographer Naoya Hatakeyama, who used remote-control cameras to captu...

Cryoconite Holes on Glaciers

Sep 4, 2014

Sometimes the surface of glaciers exhibit peculiar water filled cylindrical holes of varying sizes. At the bottom of these holes, there is u...

Parting of The Waters: A Creek That Flows Into Two Oceans

Sep 3, 2014

Within the Teton Wilderness area of Bridger-Teton National Forest, in Wyoming, USA, lies a very unremarkable creek with a remarkable hydrolo...

Intricate Ice Crack Patterns on Lake Puma Yumco

Sep 3, 2014

Lake Puma Yumco, located on the Tibetan Plateau, is one of the most remote lakes in the world. The lake is 32 km long and 13 km wide and is ...

Mocona Falls: A 3 km Waterfall That Runs Parallel to The River

Sep 2, 2014

Iguazu Falls may be the most popular waterfalls in Argentina, but Mocona Falls take the crown for the most unique. Mocona does not follow th...

The Guano Covered Island of Grassholm

Sep 2, 2014

Grassholm is a small uninhabited island, just 200 meters across, located 13 kilometers off the southwestern Pembrokeshire coast in Wales. Th...

Flexible Paper Sculptures by Li Hongbo

Aug 30, 2014

On first look, these busts appear to be carved out of porcelain or perhaps fine white marble, but actually they are made of thousands of lay...

Cherry Blossom Stones: A Natural Wonder

Aug 30, 2014

In the Japanese city of Kameoka, which lies just over the western mountains of Kyoto city, an intriguing geological oddity is found. It’s a ...

Kondyor Massif of Eastern Siberia

Aug 29, 2014

The Kondyor Massif is a perfectly circular geological formation in Eastern Siberia, Russia, roughly 600 km west-to-southwest of Okhotsk, or ...