Here’s a sheer example of concept or idea coming true! Far away up in a Svalbard archipelago’s island, 1300 km away from the North Pole, stands a giant underground unit for storing plant seeds. Svalbard Global Seed Vault was established in 2008 as a safe haven for the large variety of edible plant seeds from […]
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Category: Interesting Places
There are so many interesting places in the world, and here are some of our favorites. Learn about where two oceans meet but do not mix as well as about the mysterious deaths at the Ford Hotel.
There is always something extremely enticing about a lost city, submerged beneath the waves. That is why the legend of Atlantis still resonates to this day. However, few people realise that there are actually a number of ancient settlements that lie on the sea floor. In many cases they can be explored with some diving […]
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Here’s a little known and rather macabre fact for you – The Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio a Trevi in Rome, has the embalmed hearts of 22 popes housed with its marble urns. The former Catholic Church (in 2002, Pope John Paul II gifted use of Santi Vincenzo to the Bulgarian Orthodox Church) was the chosen […]
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In 1889, the city of Seattle experienced a fire raging through its streets. As many of the buildings were built of wood at the time, whole neighbourhoods around the business district ended up being destroyed. Reports from the time lay the blame with a careless worker heating glue over a gas fire. The wooden furnishings […]
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Not only was Stalin a murderous tyrant, he also imposed strict industrial targets upon the Soviet Union, many of which had significant environmental consequences, (the disappearance of the Aral Sea due to Soviet irrigation projects is one such example). The excavation at the Mirny diamond mine began in 1955 and it is now the second […]
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Too big to fit inside any office, one contender for the tallest filing cabinet in the world currently resides in Vermont. Built in 2002 by local artist Bren Alvarez, this particular cabinet consists of 38 drawers, with each one representing the number of years of paperwork that Alvarez accumulated while working on the project. Another […]
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After lumber magnate Charles Cobb retired in 1918, he used his millions to build a sprawling estate in the foothills north of Pasadena. Behind his home was a creepy old woods. Cobb lived on the property until his death in 1939. True to his wishes, the 107-acre estate was deeded to the Pasadena Masons. When […]
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A section of the River Wharf named Bolton Strid in North Yorkshire, UK is a picturesque stretch of waterway that bubbles along and looks altogether quite inviting. Looks can be deceiving however. Beneath the surface lies a natural booby trap that has claimed many lives over the years. The danger comes from the fact that […]
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When it comes to Ancient Egypt and the remains that exist to this day, the homes built for their Gods and the tombs built for their pharaohs, fair a lot better than anything that those alive at the time, would have used in everyday society. However the huge site of the palace of Malkata, which […]
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Should any riots suddenly break out Gardner, Illinois, the police force are going to find themselves hard-pushed to house all the arrests. Well, at one point in history that would have been the case. For many years the village only had a 2 Celled Jail. Now of course they have a regular-sized jail with all of […]
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The tall gothic tower of St. Nicholas’ Church in Hamburg, Germany is all that remains of this once grand structure. However, the former tallest building in the world still dominates the skyline. Imagine the awe-inspiring sight it must have been back in 1874 when the church was first constructed. The ornate gothic fortress was originally built […]
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Located at a site northwest of Johannesburg, is the home to the oldest hominid fossils ever found. Aptly named The Cradle of Humankind, the 80-square-mile series of sweeping African desert plain, is an extremely valuable archaeological area, providing us with information on the prehistory of early humans. A third of all early hominid fossils ever found come […]
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15 years in the making, Jan Stel’s ‘Abandoned and Forgotten’ series of photographs has seen him visit the likes of old animal testing labs, steel works, subway tunnels and textile factories. The talented photographer, from Purmerend, Netherlands, came up with the idea for his series in 1998, when his interests in past glories was initially piqued […]
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The Island of Dolls. Just take a look at the images here and you immediately see that this place is a tad on the creepy side. A haven for photographers, the abandoned Isla de las Muñecas is littered with decapitated dolls, dolls with severed limbs and blank staring eyes. The island used to belong to […]
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The spring-fed lakes in the Badain Jaran Desert are a strange sight to behold. Located near Alashan Youqi in Western Inner Mongolia, the site is a geographical anomaly that has been fascinating experts for many years. Over 100 lakes nestle in-between “Megadunes” – mammoth sand dunes. Researchers believe that the lake water originates from groundwater stored beneath […]
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