Natural Landmarks

It's Earth Day today, an event designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment. To celebrate, we're looking at the unlikely survival of a very tiny piece of nature in the heart of one of the world's largest…

Point Roberts, Washington is a small piece of the United States, dangling precariously off the tip of a Canadian peninsula.

A massive sinkhole changed Lake Peigneur from a shallow freshwater lake, to a saltwater crater overnight.

To the east of Winnipeg lies the Red River Floodway, a 47km long channel intended to prevent disastrous flooding in Canada's 8th largest city. The arrival of spring in the northern hemisphere leads to flood alerts in many areas as…

Thanks to the excellent high-quality imagery in Google Earth, some "scientists"1 claim to have discovered a 1,000-year-old forgotten relic of the fishing world. Just off the coast of Wales they spotted this large v-shaped row of rocks beneath the water…

The longest staircase in the world can be found on the slopes of Mount Niesen in the Swiss Alps. The 11,674 steps run alongside the Niesenbahn funicular which travels from the side of the Kander river in Mülenen (altitude 693m)…