Montmorency Falls
At 83 metres high, the Montmorency Falls in Quebec are 30 metres higher than Niagara Falls. Apparently there are staircases that allow visitors to observe the falls from different vantage points... Not our vantage point though! The falls look absolutely…
More Scotch Tape
Remember our giant piece of Scotch Tape holding Canada together? Well our ever-helpful readers have since turned up several more pieces of this gargantuan sticky-tape... Firstly we have this enormous length of tape, which is actually holding Ghana and Ivory…
Powers of Ten
Back in 1977, Charles and Ray Eames made a short movie entitled 'Powers of Ten', which Wikipedia describes like this: It begins with a couple picnicking in a park; the view is that of one meter across. The viewpoint then…
The Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel
Here's the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, because it's been a while since we had a bridge. Er, I mean tunnel... no, wait, two bridges! Or is that two tunnels? Frick. The Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel is a combination of two bridges and…
Inverted North Korea
Check out this weird section of image that woowoowoo found in North Korea. He said: Somehow a whole chunk of data has inverted colours - taken into Photoshop and inverted, it looks much more correct. In our first thumbnail you…
The Richat Structure
The Richat Structure in central Mauritania is a stunning geological structure 50 kilometres across (Wikipedia entry). Once thought to be an impact crater, it is actually a sedimentary formation that has eroded flat over many eons. Apparently there's a hotel…
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