Billy Tripp's Mindfield

Dec 23, 2015

In the town of Brownsville in western Tennessee, is a baffling architectural wonder called “The Mindfield” created by local artist Billy Tri...

Modernist Sand Castles by Calvin Seibert

Dec 23, 2015

New York based sand artist Calvin Seibert has been sculpting sand for the last 30 years, but his love affair started much much earlier when ...

The Latte Stones of Mariana Islands

Dec 22, 2015

Throughout most of the Mariana Islands, a crescent-shaped archipelago in the western North Pacific Ocean near Japan, a peculiar kind of mega...

The McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope

Dec 22, 2015

The McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, USA, looks like a monumental piece of modern art. A great wh...

The Great Stalacpipe Organ Creates Music From Cave Stalactites

Dec 21, 2015

The world’s strangest musical instrument is located in one of the most unlikely places in the world — deep underground, inside Virginia'...

The Museum of Tomorrow, Rio de Janeiro

Dec 21, 2015

The city of Rio de Janeiro has opened a new “experimental museum” called the Museum of Tomorrow devoted to exploring the possibilities of a ...

A Blast From The Past: Episode 1

Dec 20, 2015

A collection of interesting and noteworthy articles that you may have missed, pulled out from Amusing Planet’s nearly 8-year old archives. ...

Yipao: Colombia’s Bizarre Jeep Parade

Dec 19, 2015

The Jeep is Colombia’s most iconic mode of transportation, especially in the coffee growing regions where farming is an integral part of lif...

This is Egypt’s Only Waterfalls, And its Man-Made

Dec 19, 2015

The valley of Wadi El-Rayan, 65 km southwest of Fayoum city, in Egypt, is home to two large artificial lakes created to divert excess agricu...

The Rooftop Racetrack of Fiat’s Lingotto Factory

Dec 18, 2015

The Lingotto building in Turin, Italy, is a massive half-kilometer long reinforced concrete structure, five stories tall, that once housed t...