People have been crawling around the cavernous mountains of Asia for centuries, but remarkably, the largest cave in the world remained hidden from discovery deep in the forests of Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park in Vietnam until 1991. As the story of the Han Son Doong goes, local farmer Ho Khanh was walking along a stretch of lush forest …
Mount Fuji with the Milky way
Mark Thorpe, a Japan-based wildlife photographer, has made a time lapse of an event that is only fully visible twice a year: The passage of the Milky Way over Mount Fuji. Thorpe, an Emmy Award-winning wildlife photographer with 20 years of experience, moved to Japan two years ago with his Japanese wife and their son. He combined his recent interests …
The Black Sand Beaches Of Iceland
White sandy beaches? Yes, they’re nice. But what if I told you there’s a lava beach in Iceland that has risen from the ashes? Actually, Iceland has several volcanic beaches, but Reynisfjara Black Sand Beach is hands down the coolest with its black sand, insane basalt columns, lava formations, towering cliffs, and caves. In 1991, the American journal Islands Magazine named this …
Eiffel Tower in Paris
The Eiffel Tower is a wrought iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. Constructed from 1887 – 89 as the entrance to the 1889 World’s Fair, it was initially criticised by some of France’s leading artists and intellectuals for its design, …
Sky that looks like a rough Sea
Earlier in July, storm chaser Alex Schueth captured a mesmerizing time-lapse of undulatus asperatus clouds rolling over Lincoln, Nebraska during a storm. The rare cloud formation, whose name means roughened or agitated waves looks like a sea of dark and stormy waters churning ominously in the sky. According to Weather.com, undulatus asperatus clouds are formed when enough atmospheric instability, or …
The world’s largest Diamond was transported to England by post
The Cullinan Diamond is the largest rough diamond ever found at 3,106.75 carats. It was found in South Africa in 1905 and had to be transported from South Africa to England to be presented to King Edward VII. Transporting such a valuable thing was a huge security risk. So how did they do it? In a cunning move, security personnel …
The world’s longest lasting light bulb
Incandescent light bulbs may be fading away, killed off slowly by fluorescent s and LED’s, but there’s one old-fashioned bulb that refuses to go out. In fact, it’s been going for more than a century. The world’s longest-burning light bulb has been shining since 1901, when it was first turned on in Liver more, Calif. (It’s gone out during a …
Ice Canyon in Greenland
Greenland is the largest island in the world. About 80 percent of the territory is hidden under the ice sheet, which accounts for nearly 1/10 of all the ice on our planet. After Antarctica, this is the second largest ice massif in the world. Amazing island of Greenland attracts travellers-adventurers and photographers from around the globe, especially because of the …
The Balancing Rock and its Unlikely Explanation
The Kummakivi Balancing Rock is a natural feature found in a scenic forest region of Ruokolahti, a municipality in the region of South Karelia, in the southeastern part of Finland. This feature consists of two boulders, one perched precariously on the top of the other. Although the upper rock looks as though it would roll off at any given moment, …
The Stockholm metro system
If you ever plan to take a trip to Stockholm, Sweden’s capital city, take note of the subways: they’re works of art in and of themselves. Stockholm metro is a metro in Stockholm City, Sweden. The first track was opened in 1950, and today the subway system has about 100 stations and more will be added within a couple of years. The …
A village in Yemen
Yemen in a desert country located on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, bordered by the Red Sea and the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait in the west, Saudi Arabia in the north and Oman in the east. With the exception of the coastal plains in the west, Yemen is continuously elevated with high and dry mountains having jagged peaks and plateaus …
Meet the one city in America where cars have been banned since 1898
Bike culture has recently been booming in the U.S. But there’s a little place in the north that’s been in love with bikes for generations: Mackinac Island, Michigan, a historic tourist destination on the Straits of Mackinac, Michigan between Lakes Michigan and Huron. Because motor vehicles have been banned here since 1898 more than 100 years everyone has used bikes …