Central Asia 140 Years Ago
Amazing 140-year-old photos of Central Asia.
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Blue Hour Photos
Beautiful blue pictures from around the world. Everything is breathtaking with amazing colors of the sky. Mt. Moran, Wyoming, USA Dresden, Germany Colosseum, Rome, Italy Victoria, BC, Canada Dyrhólaey, Iceland Death Valley National Park, California, USA London, England New York, New York, USA Porticello, Sicily, Italy Queenstown, New Zealand Cinque Terre, Italy Shanghai, China Istanbul, [...]
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The World in 1961
A half-century ago, much of the world was in a broad state of change: We were moving out of the post-World War II era, and into both the Cold War and the Space Age, with broadening civil rights movements and anti-nuclear protests in the U.S. In 1961, John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th [...]
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Hiroshima – true tragedy
I hate when people make stupid stuff. This is one of the stupidest they ever made. Making and using the atomic bomb…
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Could this bar be more psychedelic?
This bar is so cool Reminds me on bar from Clockwork Orange…All those black and white colors mixed with others make this bar very psychedelic…
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Fascinating bridges
Here is one great collection of world’s coolest bridges. I am sad that I don’t know any of these bridges or anything about them. So, if you do know something, please let me know
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Edwards AFB Airshow
Once, while I was living at Cyprus, I show Britain airshow made for queens Elisabeth birthday. I was really trilled and excited. Then, I found these images and they remind me a lot of that day. Hope you will enjoy too.
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Roads To See – Roads To Go
See some some of the world’s finest roads. Just by looking at them you’ll feel desire to go somewhere to travel and enjoy.
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Scenes from Indonesia
Ecologically blessed, economically challenged, vast and diverse, Indonesia is a country of contrasts. made up of 17,500 islands (only about 6,000 of those inhabited). Indonesia is populated by over 230 million people, speaking over 740 different languages and dialects within 300 distinct native ethnic groups – it is the fourth most populous country, after the [...]
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African Immigration to Europe
Tens of thousands of Africans – men, women and children fleeing their homeland – attempt to make the perilous trip from their home countries to Europe every year, seeking refuge, asylum and economic opportunity. Some travel thousands of miles overland, being handed from smuggler to smuggler, ending up at one of many ports in northern [...]
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Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe is a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains of the United States. It is located along the border between California and Nevada, west of Carson City, Nevada. Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake in North America. Its depth is 1,645 ft (501 m) making it America’s second-deepest.
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The Deadly Mt Huashan Hiking Trail
Formerly the five mountains were dotted with temples but now only a few remain. These days the majority of visitors to Huashan are Chinese youth on vacation. However the mountain routes are still trekked by devoted pilgrims and wandering monks intent of visiting the sacred shrines. In order to reach certain temples and the caves [...]
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The Icelandic Phallological Museum
The Icelandic Phallological Museum is probably the only museum in the world to contain a collection of phallic specimens belonging to all the various types of mammal found in a single country. Phallology is an ancient science which, until recent years, has received very little attention in Iceland, except as a borderline field of study [...]
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The Floating Villages of Lake Titicaca
Waking up to see the world floating past your window would fill most people with a deep foreboding and have them running outside to see what catastrophe had just occurred – was it shock flooding or a nightmarish storm that carried your house away? Or it could be just another ordinary day on a buoyant [...]
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Emirates Palace – 7 Stars Abu Dhabi Hotel
The Emirates Palace is a luxury hotel located in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) city of Abu Dhabi.
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The Sapphire Mines Of Madagascar
The tiny village of Ilakaka, Madagascar had barely 40 residents before 1998. Then, a large deposit of sapphires was discovered along a nearby riverbed, and caught the eye of some Thai businessmen in the gem trade. Word got out, and Ilakaka swelled to tens of thousands of residents – the center of a sapphire boom, [...]
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The State of Hawaii
The State of Hawaii (/həˈwaɪ.iː/ (help·info) or /həˈwaɪʔiː/ in English; Hawaiian: Mokuʻāina o Hawaiʻi) is a state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia. The state was admitted to the Union on August 21, 1959, making [...]
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Rare Pictures – India 100 Years Ago
The subcontinent of India lies in south Asia, between Pakistan, China and Nepal. To the north it is bordered by the world’s highest mountain chain, where foothill valleys cover the northernmost of the country’s 26 states. Further south, plateaus, tropical rain forests and sandy deserts are bordered by palm fringed beaches.
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Restaurant with interactively table menu technology
Recently opened Inamo, a chic restaurant and bar in London’s west end. The interior was designed by Blacksheep, featuring projecting colorful menus and aesthetic patterns onto touch sensitives tabletops. Their menus are projected onto tabletops, allowing diners to order food and beverages interactively, change the ambiance of their individual table, play games, and even to [...]
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The beauty of Antarctica
Antarctica (/ænˈtɑɹktɪkə/) is Earth’s southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14.4 million km² (5.4 million sq mi), it is the fifth-largest continent in area after Asia, Africa, North America, and South America. About [...]
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Worlds most amazing mosques – part 1
From ancient times long past to present day, man has constructed mosques revered for their stunning architectural beauty and distinctive features — grand entrances, soaring minarets, dramatically tiled domes, monumental courtyards, majestic halls, ablution fountains, and even tombs. In the first of a 2-part series, we will take a look at some of the most [...]
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Parque Espana library in Colombia
At the edge of the mountain in the city of Santo Domingo Medellín, Colombia, Giancarlo Mazzanti projected three artificial rocks as a symbol for the city to enhance urban development and public activities in the area. The rock-buildings are organized into three major blocs: library, community center and cultural center. Each tower-rock has a different [...]
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Vintage color photos of US cities
I found a lot of vintage photos of US cities. Here is the collection I made. I hope you will enjoy viewing your town years ago. Something drastically changed, something didn’t. Please let me know what changed and what is the same. Thanks! St. Louis – 1949 St. Louis – 1966 Kansas City – 1953 [...]
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Ruined city under the sea
Atlantis, Antarctica More than 100 years ago, a museum curator in Istanbul found an old map. After did some examination with the map, he found a location that was marked with the line of mountains which the location was where the Antarctica’s now presenting. This map is one of so many evidences which proven that [...]
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Thirsty Australia
The decade-long dry that blights parts of southern Australia was recorded by some of the country’s best documentary photographers. Their work will be on show in the exhibition Beyond Reasonable Drought in Canberra from July 5 to October 26.
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Berlin – light festival
Berlin, Germany is hosting its “Festival of Lights” this week, until October 26th. Dozens of landmarks are lit up with lamps, projectors and lasers, accompanied by fireworks and other events. We humans light up the night for many reasons, practical, artistic – even reasons with more meaningful messages. Pictured below are night scenes from Berlin [...]
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Nigeria – Lagos
Lagos (pron. IPA: /ˈleɪgɒs/ or /ˈlɑːgoʊs/ overseas) is the most populous conurbation in Nigeria with 7,937,932 inhabitants at the 2006 census. It is the most populous in Africa, and currently estimated to be the second fastest growing city in Africa (7th fastest in the world), immediately following Bamako. Formerly the capital of Nigeria, Lagos is [...]
