Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling

Aug 8, 2015

For more than two hundred years the small English village of Brockworth in Gloucestershire has played host to the Cooper's Hill Cheese R...

Body Farms: Outdoor Research Facilities for Studying Decomposing Bodies

Aug 7, 2015

Less than forty years ago, our understanding of how the human body decomposes was limited. Much of what was known came from ancient studies ...

The Shiprock of New Mexico

Aug 7, 2015

Shiprock or "the winged rock" in Navajo, is a monolith composed of resistant volcanic rock that rises nearly 500 meters above the ...

The Mysterious Patomskiy Crater

Aug 6, 2015

In 1949 a geologist named Vadim Kolpakov discovered a large mound of limestone in the north of the Irkutsk region in southeastern Siberia, a...

The Circus of Bath

Aug 6, 2015

The Circus, Latin for “circular”, is an iconic building in the city of Bath, in Somerset, in England, consisting of three curved segments of...

China is Building The World's Largest Telescope

Aug 5, 2015

The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico will soon lose its title of the largest single aperture radio telescope ever constructed. The Chines...

The Slag Heaps of Loos-en-Gohelle

Aug 5, 2015

In the commune of Loos-en-Gohelle, a former mining town in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, are a series of five conical hills, of w...

Tanaka Tatsuya’s Miniature Calendar

Aug 5, 2015

Japanese artist Tanaka Tatsuya has been photographing his collection of diorama dolls interacting with everyday objects he finds around his ...

The Log House of Nikolay Sutyagin

Aug 4, 2015

Not many years ago, in northern Russia, on the outskirts of the city of Archangel, by the Dvina River, stood a tall wooden house — a whimsic...

Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant

Aug 4, 2015

The Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant is located at Disney's Hollywood Studios, one of the four main theme parks at Walt Disney World, i...