This is the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, a few kilometres east of my last post, in Arizona. The monument consists of the ruins of multiple structures constructed by the Hohokam, farmers who lived here from the early 1200s. In…

Most of the mines which people submit are in low-res, but here's one which isn't. This is an abandoned open pit copper mine in Casa Grande, Arizona. Can't imagine why they abandoned it... I mean, that hole isn't nearly big…

This is Ilamatepec, the Santa Ana Volcano in El Salvador which erupted at the beginning of the month. It hadn't previously erupted since 1904, and there were reports of lava rocks the size of cars, and villagers fleeing from a…

Just outside of Scottsdale, Arizona, lies this totally bizarre little patch of buildings. Sitting isolated out in the desert, these structures are packed into perfectly regular square... and as far as I can see, for absolutely no good reason -…

The Olympiaturm (Olympic Tower) and the Olympic Park with its stadium were built for the 1972 Summer Olympics. The building's transparent design was apprently inspired by soap-bubbles and dew-covered cobwebs, I don't see cobwebs but the building is quite reflective,…

This is the Bear Lake Radio Telescope outside of Moscow, and for such a big thing it was incredibly hard to track down any information about it. Initially I had no idea what it was called, but after some extensive…