This one might not be new to some of you, but this picture of a sea plane taking off in Alaska was too good not to post 😀 If you look around the edges of the port (or is it…

This is Swank Farms Corn Maze near Hollister, CA. Interestingly it's a more recent image than most of the other pictures we've been able to date so far. The date? Kind of hard to miss... 😉 This year's corn maze…

This is Biosphere 2 in the Arizona desert. Constructed between 1987 and '89, the ill fated 'self-contained environment' experiment was supposedly intended to explore the possible use of closed biospheres in space colonisation (you know, like in Total Recall!). The…

Looks like these trains are stopped at a level crossing on the Burlington Northern railroad track in Wyoming. The Northern one is chopped off by some low-res imagery, but scroll south to see just how incredibly long they are! Amazing.…

This is the Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona. What's great about this post is the bridge that extends across the valley in front of the dam, casting an excellent shadow on the dam itself. The dam's construction began in 1956,…

Overlooking Niagara Falls (and complete with rotating dining room), here is the 520 foot (160m) Skylon Tower. Bet you get a great view of the falls when you're up there! Thanks to Chris Granger.