The Way Sperm Whales Sleep

Jul 18, 2017

Swiss wildlife photographer Franco Banfi and a team of scuba divers were following a pod of sperm whales off the coast of Dominica Island in...

The Topiary Trees of San Francisco

Jul 17, 2017

San Francisco residents have a particularly strong liking for topiary trees, as apparent from these photographs taken by three different pho...

The Giddy House, Port Royal, Jamaica

Jul 17, 2017

On the grounds of Fort Charles in the small town of Port Royal, Jamaica, stands a lopsided building called “the Giddy House”. Half buried in...

The 'Great Stink' of London

Jul 14, 2017

In the summer of 1858, Londoners found themselves in the middle of a big stinking problem. For centuries, the city was abusing River Thames ...

Lake Kavicsos, Hungary

Jul 12, 2017

Kavicsos Lake, or “pebble lake” in Hungarian, is a scenic lake about 2 km across located south of Budapest, just a 30-minute ride away from ...

Canal du Midi, France

Jul 12, 2017

The Strait of Gibraltar between Europe and Africa isn’t the only waterway that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. A thous...

The Model Villages of Britain

Jul 11, 2017

Starting from the late 18th century, many English landowners and industrialists began building villages to provide housing for their workers...

The Mystery of The Longyou Caves

Jul 8, 2017

In 1992, a strangely curious man named Wu Anai, near the Chinese village of Shiyan Beicun in Longyou County, based on a hunch, began to pump...

The Humongous Fungus

Jul 7, 2017

Beneath the soil in the Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon, the United States, lurks a very large fungus that has been slowly weaving...

Paracas Candelabra of Peru

Jul 5, 2017

The Nazca Lines in southern Peru are some of the best known geoglyphs on earth, but they aren’t the only ones in the Nazca desert. About 200...