Asia

Tasman Glacier Terminal Lake is a Fascinating Glacial Encounter

Tasman Glacier Terminal Lake is a proglacial lake created by the current retreat of New Zealand's South Island. In the early 1970s, there were ample small meltwater ponds on...

Frilled Monarch (Arses telescopthalmus)

The frilled monarch (Arses telescopthalmus) belongs to the family Monarchidae. In its habits of calling and feeding, the...

10 Unique Rose Varieties

The Rare Nine Unique Rose Varieties Rare roses are flowers that are not commonly found in gardens or nurseries....

Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo (Cacomantis castaneiventris)

There is very little known about the chestnut-breasted cuckoo (Cacomantis castaneiventris) because of its remote and inaccessible habitat...

Montagu’s Harrier – Graceful Flight is Characterized by Powerful and Elegant Wingbeats

Montagu's Harrier (Circus pygargus) is 43–47 cm in length with a wingspan of 105–125 cm. The male weight...

Saqqara Pyramid – World’s First True Pyramid

Saqqara Pyramid is considered to be the world's first true pyramid. It is an architectural wonder in its own right, being built around a...

Oman Forest – Blooms for Three Months in a Year

Oman Forest blooms for three months in a year. The jungle of Oman, revealed in a series of photographs, is an incredibly pop-up forest...

Tianzi Mountains – Formation Inspired the Fictional World of Pandora

The Tianzi Mountains inspired the Pandora mountainscape in James Cameron’s film Avatar. It is located in Zhangjiajie, in the Hunan Province of China, near...

Dar al-Hajar – Yemen’s Spectacular Royal Architecture

Yemen's Dar al-Hajar, or 'stone house', is a rock column behold one of the world's most spectacular constructions. The former royal residence grows out...

Shehr-e-Roghan – The Mysterious Cave City

In Balochistan, Pakistan, there is a famous archaeological town called Shehr-e-Roghan, referred to as the Cave City or City of Jinns. Cave City is...

The Breathtaking Terraced Rice Fields in The Cordilleras

Terraced Rice Fields in The Cordilleras - Into precipitous mountains rice paddies have been carved from some 220 miles (350 kilometers) from Manila, this...

Gilbert Hill – A Monolith Column of Black Basalt

Gilbert Hill is a 200 ft (61 m) monolith column of black basalt rock in the middle of Andheri, in Mumbai, the state of...

Kalyan Minaret – History of Beauty and Death

Bukhara is one of the most attractive and legendary cities in the world, where the Kalyan minaret is a minaret of the Po-i-Kalyan mosque...

The Unbelievable Cape Stolbchaty Columnar Basalt Formation

Stone formation like those found at Cape Stolbchaty, on Kunashir Island, seem almost impossible to explain as natural creations. As a matter of fact,...

The Historic Kalyazin Bell Tower, Russia

The Kalyazin Bell Tower is a 244 feet Neoclassical campanile over the waters of the Volga River opposite the old town of Kalyazin, in...