Showing posts from February, 2014

Diomede Islands: Two Islands Split by the US-Russian Border and the International Date Line

Feb 28, 2014

The Diomede Islands are a pair of rocky islands located in the middle of the Bering Strait between mainland Alaska and Siberia. Though the t...

The Ancient Sea Wall at Batroun, Lebanon

Feb 27, 2014

Batroun is a coastal city in northern Lebanon lying 50 km north of Beirut and 30 km south of Tripoli. It is one of the oldest cities in the ...

The Equator in Ecuador

Feb 27, 2014

Although the equator runs through hundreds of places, one country that takes particular pride in its unique geographical location is Ecuador...

Dean's Blue Hole, World's Deepest Blue Hole

Feb 26, 2014

Dean's Blue Hole near Clarence Town on Long Island, Bahamas, is the world's deepest known “blue hole” - a term given to any deep, wa...

Irohazaka Winding Road, Japan

Feb 26, 2014

Irohazaka are a pair of winding roads connecting the lower elevation around central Nikko, in the mountains of Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, to...

Meoto Iwa, the Wedded Rocks

Feb 26, 2014

Meoto Iwa, also called the “husband and wife rocks” or “wedded rocks”, are a pair of small rocky stacks in the sea right in front of the Fut...

The Old Man of Storr

Feb 25, 2014

The Old Man of Storr is a large pinnacle of rock located on the north of the Isle of Skye, in Scotland, in an area known as ‘Trotternish’. T...

The Colorful Island of Burano, Italy

Feb 25, 2014

Burano is an island in the Northern Venetian Lagoon, just 40 minutes away from Venice by boat. Burano is an old fishing village, and the fis...

Limestone Boulders of Castle Hill in New Zealand

Feb 22, 2014

Castle Hill is located 120 km west of Christchurch close to the Great Alpine Highway 73, between Darfield and Arthur's Pass in New Zeala...

Toilet Bowl Waterfall in Foshan, China

Feb 22, 2014

Foshan, a city in central Guangdong province in China, has one of the strangest public art - a fountain built out of 10,000 recycled toilets...

The Whispering Wall of Barossa Reservoir

Feb 22, 2014

The Barossa Reservoir was built between 1899 and 1902 to supply water to town of Gawler and other northern country areas in South Australia....

Brick Sculptures By Brad Spencer

Feb 20, 2014

Brad Spencer is one of the very few artist in the world who creates sculptures from bricks. A BFA in Painting and Drawing from UNCG and an ...

The Hand of the Atacama Desert

Feb 20, 2014

In the middle of the Atacama Desert, a giant hand rises from the ground like the remains of an ancient civilization. In reality, it’s a pret...

Paper Birds by Diana Beltran Herrera

Feb 20, 2014

Diana Beltran Herrera is a Colombian designer and illustrator who creates realistic, vibrantly colored paper birds. Diana Beltran Herrera h...

The Man-Eaters of Tsavo

Feb 20, 2014

The Tsavo region lies to the south of Kenya close to the borders with Tanzania in the basin of the Tsavo river close to where it meets the A...

The Grand Canyon of Tianshan Mountain

Feb 19, 2014

These pictures of great sandstone walls were not taken at the Antelope Canyon in Arizona, but rather in Keziliya Mountain, about 70 km north...

10 Interesting National Parks of Africa

Feb 18, 2014

When you think of Africa, you think of wild animals. Africa contains some of the world’s most dense population of wildlife and the richest d...

Qasr Al Haj: An Ancient Bank Vault

Feb 17, 2014

One of the finest example of Berber architecture is “Qasr Al Haj”, located on the Tripoli-'Aziziya-Al Jawf route in Libya about 130 km f...

The Wonderful Barn in Ireland

Feb 17, 2014

The Wonderful Barn is a corkscrew-shaped barn located on the edge of Castletown House Estate of the Conolly family, on the borders of Leixli...

The Cliffs of Scala dei Turchi

Feb 15, 2014

The Scala dei Turchi (Italian for “Stairs of the Turks”) is a brilliantly white limestone cliff, sculpted like a staircase, on the coast of ...

The Walls of Sacsayhuaman

Feb 15, 2014

Sacsayhuaman (also spelled Saksaywaman), is one of the most stunning Inca ruins, located on the northern outskirts of the old city of Cusco,...

7 Magnificent Forts on the French Coast

Feb 13, 2014

With extensive coastlines on the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, France has always been prone to attacks from seafaring enemies. T...

Pacu, The Fish With Very Human Teeth

Feb 13, 2014

Pacu is a South American freshwater fish found in most rivers and streams in the Amazon and Orinoco river basins of lowland Amazonia, but th...

The Mock Village of Copehill Down

Feb 12, 2014

Copehill Down on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, may look like a typical English village, but on closer inspection something doesn’t ...

Empuriabrava, Spain’s Own Venice

Feb 11, 2014

Empuriabrava is an unusual town on the coast of Girona, the Costa Brava in Spain. It is one of the largest residential marina in the world w...

The Island of Monte Cristo

Feb 11, 2014

The island of Montecristo is one of the seven islands that make up the Tuscan Archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea, about 60 km from the coast ...

Berkeley Pit, the Pit of Poison

Feb 10, 2014

The Berkeley Pit is an abandoned open pit copper mine located in Butte, Montana, United States. It is over a mile long, half a mile wide, an...

The H-3 Highway in Hawaii

Feb 9, 2014

The H-3 Highway also known as John A. Burns Freeway on the island of O'ahu, is considered one of the most beautiful and most controversi...

The Thousand Islands of St. Lawrence River

Feb 7, 2014

The Thousand Islands is an archipelago consisting of exactly 1,864 islands that straddles the Canada-U.S. border in the Saint Lawrence River...

Theo and Beau: The Napping Toddler and Puppy

Feb 7, 2014

Jessica Shyba, mother of three, and blogger at the site MommasGoneCity.com picked up their puppy Theo - a shar-pei and German shepherd mix -...

Goat Towers

Feb 5, 2014

Goats are extremely curious animals and great climbers, known for their ability to climb and hold their balance in the most precarious place...

The Mysterious Cart Tracks of Malta

Feb 5, 2014

In a number of locations across the islands of Malta and Gozo in the Mediterranean sea are complex network of parallel tracks cut into the l...

Scale Model of Boeing 777 Built Entirely From Paper

Feb 1, 2014

San Francisco-based designer Luca Iaconi-Stewart is building a 1:60 scale model of a Boeing 777 out of manila folders, a project that he has...

The Islet of Vila Franca do Campo

Feb 1, 2014

Situated in the middle of the Atlantic, 1,369 km west of the European mainland, the Azores archipelago comprises of nine islands spread over...