A Blast From The Past: Episode 23
From the archives of Amusing Planet. Tashirojima - The Cat Island of Japan The Cat Island, officially called Tashirojima, is a small islan...
From the archives of Amusing Planet. Tashirojima - The Cat Island of Japan The Cat Island, officially called Tashirojima, is a small islan...
The Ochtinská Aragonite Cave, in southern Slovakia, is one of the few caves in the world where aragonite crystals are found. There is one in...
Mataiva is a coral atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago, in French Polynesia, located about 311 km north of the island of Tahiti. The ring-shape...
Angels Flight is a historic narrow gauge funicular railway located in the Bunker Hill district of downtown Los Angeles, California. Dubbed t...
A trivial but iconic architectural element of Europe are the chimneypots that adorn the rooftops of houses and buildings. In Paris, in parti...
On 12 May, 2008, a devastating earthquake in Wenchuan County, in Sichuan, China, left nearly 70,000 people killed and over 18,000 missing. A...
Mount Bromo in East Java, Indonesia, is the youngest of several volcanoes in the Tengger massif, and is one of Java’s most active volcanoes....
In the Italian town of Nervesa della Battaglia, about 45 kilometers north of Venice, is a restaurant named Ai Pioppi. Aside from the food an...
The word ‘panorama’ is used very frequently in modern times. The rise of mobile phone photography and the ability to take panoramic photogra...
Some of the world’s strangest lakes are filled not with water but with asphalt, also known bitumen, the same material that roads are paved w...