Natuurbrug Zanderij Crailoo in Hilversum, The Netherlands
The Netherlands is home to over 600 wildlife crossings known as ecoducts. The longest of these is Natuurbrug Zanderij Crailoo, which spans a distance of 800 meters long and 50 meters wide.The...
View ArticleMinyatür’s Nautical Instruments in Istanbul, Turkey
The Grand Bazaar, or Covered Bazaar (Kapaliçarsi) in Istanbul is a magical city within a city. With over 60 streets and more then 4400 shops, the world’s first mall is a buzzing hive of activity,...
View ArticleHart Island in Bronx, New York
One story says that British cartographers named this little patch of land in the Long Island Sound "Heart Island", due to its organ-like shape (it really bares almost no resemblance to a heart). Others...
View ArticleLexiaguo in China
Lexiaguo is one of the places on earth that is hard to believe exists. The internet community has debated its reality, and its sweeping palette of farmland has dropped the jaws of many pragmatists,...
View ArticleArt Car Museum in Houston, Texas
Some people wash and wax their cars, making sure that the finish is exactly as clean and shiny as the day they bought it. The art car movement goes in the entirely other direction.While those who...
View ArticleJ-4 Abandoned Coastal Artillery in Baiona, Spain
The J-4 battery is a now-decomissioned piece of military history, once part of a naval defense system that extended Spain's storied history as a dominant naval power into the 20th century.Built in...
View ArticleAtlantic Ocean Road in Norway
The Atlantic Road, known as Atlanterhavsveien in Norwegian, is just about the most scenic route one could imagine.The curvy road dips and arches over the brutal waves of the Norwegian Sea that often...
View ArticleUTA Flight 772 Memorial in Niger
On September 19th, 1989, a Libyan terrorist detonated a suitcase bomb on UTA Flight 772 over the Sahara desert, killing all 170 people on board.Due to the remote resting place of the wreck, the...
View ArticleMary Rose Museum in Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Within the Mary Rose Museum is an impressively intact 16th century ship that spent hundreds of years lost to the sea.The Mary Rose was built in 1510 and was the pride of Henry VIII, until the warship...
View ArticleBull Surfing in Kerala in Kerala, India
In perhaps the dirtiest form of rodeo known to man, bull surfing in Kerala, India entails chasing down two charging bulls, grabbing on and sliding at full speed through a rice paddy.Each August, the...
View ArticleSt. Patrick's Purgatory in Lough Derg, Ireland
On a small island in the middle of an Irish lake, there is a gateway to hell, before anyone panics, there is already a monastery over the portal called St. Patrick’s Purgatory.The story goes that Jesus...
View ArticleThe Ape Caves in Near Amboy, Washington
Located on the south side of Mt. St. Helens, the Ape Caves were formed over 2000 years ago when lava flowed down the volcanic mountain in streams. As the lava would cool an outer crust would form,...
View ArticleSougenji Kappa-Dera Temple in Tokyo, Japan
In Japanese folklore, "kappa" are bipedal, turtle-like aquatic goblins who sometimes grab unsuspecting humans, often children, as they walk over bridges or through swamps, pulling them down into the...
View ArticleParque Nacional Serra da Capivara in São Raimundo Nonato, Brazil
Located in a national park in northeast Brazil, this site is full of incredible prehistoric paintings and archeological findings.It is an open-air museum,within the park is the "Museu do Homem...
View ArticleFleur De Lys Studio in Providence, Rhode Island
Leaping out from the flat Colonial clapboard buildings of Providence, Rhode Island's famous College Hill area is the Fleur de Lys Art Studio.The studio is set apart from its more uniform neighbors with...
View ArticleDrowned Village of Vilarinho da Furna in Vilarinho da Furna, Portugal
In a rare occurrence, during a particularly dry spell in Portugal's Minho region, Vilarinho da Furna emerges from beneath the water to reveal the bare walls of a 2000-year-old town destroyed by an...
View ArticleBradford College in Haverhill, Massachusetts
Evolved from the Bradford Academy (est. 1803), a women-only institution meant to train missionaries wives, Bradford College in Haverhill, MA eventually became a liberal arts college and adjusted its...
View ArticleMalibu Hindu Temple in Calabasas, California
Its presence contrasting sharply with nearby ordinance-beige tract homes, personal estates on light timers, and overly chlorinated, underused backyard pools, the Malibu Hindu Temple i surprisingly easy...
View ArticleStarcross Engine House & Brunel’s Atmospheric Railway in Starcross, United...
It seemed like a fabulous idea.Instead of using steam locomotives, trains were moved by a system of atmospheric (vacuum) traction, with the air being extracted from 15 inch pipes laid between the rails...
View ArticlePasona02 in Chiyoda, Japan
Agriculture is perhaps the last thing you'd associate with teeming downtown Tokyo. In all fairness, it's probably a good bet that the majority of citizens who pass the run-of-the-mill office high-rise...
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