Beautiful Pictures of Rice Terraces

Sep 4, 2011

Terraces Cultivation, also known as Step Farming, is used to cultivate sloped land such as on hilly or mountainous terrain. Terraced fields ...

World's First Virtual Store Opens in Korea

Sep 2, 2011

A major South Korean retailer has opened what it appears to be the world's first virtual store geared to smartphone users, with shoppers...

World's First Elephant Hospital in Thailand

Sep 2, 2011

Soraida Salwala opened the World’s First Asian Elephant Hospital in Lampang, Thailand in 1993 to treat elephants that are ill or injured as ...

Burning Man Festival 2011

Sep 1, 2011

Burning Man is a liberal arts festival that takes place in the last week of August week before Labor Day in the Black Rock Desert, in Northe...

Annual Tomatina Festival in Spain, 2011

Sep 1, 2011

La Tomatina is the craziest and the largest food fight festival organized every year in the town of Bunol in the Valencia region of Spain. A...

Beautiful Underwater Photography by Elena Kalis

Sep 1, 2011

Russian-born photographer Elena Kalis has been residing on a small island in the Bahamas, surrounded by clear ocean, for the past decade. S...

Das Park Hotel Built from Giant Sewage Pipes

Aug 31, 2011

If your idea of a holiday is to live inside a sewage pipe, then congratulations - you qualify for a night’s stay at the Das Park Hotel in Au...

Street Scene Paintings by Max Ginsburg

Aug 30, 2011

Max Ginsburg , born in 1931 in Paris, is a social realist painter who draws his inspiration from the energy of New York City and its people....

Amy Bennett’s Diorama-like Paintings

Aug 30, 2011

Brooklyn based artist Amy Bennett uses an interesting technique for her paintings. First she builds miniature sets and then uses them as re...

Levitating Self-Portraits by Natsumi Hayashi

Aug 29, 2011

Teenage photography sensation Natsumi Hayashi takes pictures of herself seemingly floating in midair. Equipped with only a tripod or with h...