Souq Waqif, Doha, Qatar




Kotor, Montenegro





Cologne Cathedral, Germany




Lisbon




Torres del Paine, Patagonia, Argentina | by Daniel Kordan
















Friendly Giants Built From Recycled Wood Hidden in the Forests of Copenhagen

In honor of South African politician Nelson Mandela and to mark the 50th anniversary of his arrest by the apartheid police, artist Marco Cianfanelli was commissioned to produce a sculpture to stand in Howick, South Africa, on the exact unassuming spot that he was captured. The installation consists of 50 steel columns which symbolise the prison bars that held him for 27 years. When viewed from the right angle, the quietly powerful sculpture forms a profile portrait of Mandela.







These are called blackout panels.



















Underground Town: Coober Pedy, Australia

The town of Coober Pedy still exists and is home to more than 1,600 residents. It is referred to as the opal capital of the world because it produces more opal than anywhere else on Earth. The town consists of homes called “dugouts,” which were built underground to combat the unbearable heat on the surface and to keep their babies safe from dingoes and Australians.




Maui Sunset ~ Hawaii

Uncle Buck’s Fishbowl and Grill. It’s a unique underwater themed bowling alley & restaurant.







Istanbul,Turkey

An archaeological dig on the Menemonee Reservation in Wisconsin yielded a clay pot. The pot was dated to 800 years ago and contained seeds. Some of the seeds were planted to see if 800 year old seeds were viable. An ancient squash was the result.










Farthest you can get from civilization: Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic

Tristan da Cunha is about the farthest you can get from civilization without actually leaving the planet. This archipelago at the bottom of the world is a British Overseas Territory and has the distinction of being the remotest inhabited island on Earth. Located in the South Atlantic, the archipelago is adrift in the middle of the ocean, 1,750 miles from South Africa and 2,088 miles from South America. Tristan is the only island where people live (with a population of about 260) – Nightingale Island, Inaccessible Island and Gough Island are all uninhabited wildlife reserves, says the Tristan da Cunha website. Visitors willing to make the long trek down to the island can see the rockhopper penguins that adorn the islands’ shores, as well as the endangered spectacled petrel and the fur seals that roll from rocky shore into the Atlantic Ocean, says Pew Environment News.

Mud Men

For centuries, the ‘Mud Men’ of Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea, adorned themselves in clay masks and bamboo finger spears to raid other villages for their women, or pigs. The masks have different origin stories from the late 1800s. Some say they stem from the villagers’ desire to intimidate enemies with their macabre appearances.

World’s Largest Redwood Sculpture Carved from a Single Tree Is Finally Complete After 3 Years




Navajo Loop Trail - Bryce Canyon National Park - Utah - USA (by Andrew Smith)




Ribe - Denmark (by Stefan Klaas)




Black sand beach in Iceland via reddit user Craig_1
















Endangered Species Cut from Paper by Patrick Cabral

Cité Musicale de l'Ile Seguin in Paris

In the words of the architects Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines:

At the “prow” of the island of Seguin, the Cité Musicale solves the paradox of remaining in perfect continuity with the urban planning project of Jean Nouvel, while at the same time constituting a signal, an emblem of the culture of Hauts-de-Seine. On the downstream end, the foundation is inclined, and allows a nest of woven wood with rounded shapes to emerge. This detaches itself from the general silhouette of the island and affirms its presence. It announces the specificity of a prestigious public and cultural program: at the interior one notices the iridescent hull of the auditorium and the activity of its foyers. To the sides, a silver sail protects it from direct sunlight. This photovoltaic solar sail is always in movement, orienting itself following the course of the sun and permitting optimal energy production.
















Kampung Pelangi: a village in Indonesia made out of rainbows

Atlantis Hotel Dubai




Taiwan




Colmar, Alsace,France




Chapel of Saint-Michel d'Aiguilhe, France










Natural Rock Formation Looks Like an Elephant Drinking from the Ocean

Sometimes, the natural landscape can bear an uncanny resemblance to creatures in the wild—one of these curious places is off the coast of Iceland. On the island of Heimaey, there is a rock formation that, from certain angles, looks like a massive elephant taking a drink out of the Atlantic ocean.

Two key elements contribute to this playful illusion. Firstly, the “wrinkles” in the cliff mimic an elephant’s leathery skin—this particular texture was formed by basalt rock, a type of material that results from the rapid cooling of thick lava. Coupled with indentations that look like an eye and a giant, floppy ear, it’s almost as if this is an elephant that’s hiding in plain sight

Impermanent Sculptures

Vitor Schietti’s paints with light in the Brazilian central plateau seeking to bring his thoughts from unconscious realms into existence. Capturing vibrant images of fireworks creating intriguing light sculptures integrated with the majestic landscape.

Dubrovnik - Croatia (by annajewelsphotography)



















The Incredible Sand Sculptures of Toshihiko Hosaka

Algeria
















Caracas,Venezuela




Crossing Río Ixcan / Guatemala (by Abel Juarez).




The Water Clock, Villa Borghese / Rome (by throughalens83).




Hobbiton / New Zealand (by CoolbieRe).




Fa Yuen Street - Hong Kong (by johnlsl)




Chinatown - San Francisco - California - USA (by Peter Rood)

Spectacular Time-Lapse Captures Rare Cloud Inversion Inside Grand Canyon




Procida - Italy (by Juan Salmoral)










U-boats were surrendered by Germany in 1918 but were too difficult to tow so were scrapped off the coast. These incredible images show the World War One vessels wrecked on the shore at Falmouth, in Cornwall, in 1921.




A photographer’s drone located this hidden glacial pool in the Himalayas.













A Girl Encounters a Giant White Horse Frozen in Mid-Air Within the Venice Biennale’s Argentinian Pavilion