Situated in the middle of the hot and hellish Afar Depression, Lake Abbe stretches six miles in width and is covered in clusters of massive, steam-blasting limestone chimneys. Although Lake... »

Natural Wonders, Martian Landscapes, Geological Oddities | Edited by serflac and atimian

By all scientific accounts, theses rounded objects found in pyrophyllite deposits around Ottosdal, South Africa are three billion-year-old rocks that were naturally formed by carbonate... »

Geological Oddities, Hoaxes and Pseudoscience | Edited by atimian and Dylan

Amid reports of explosions just north of Windhoek in mid-November, Namibian authorities discovered a strange sphere in the village grasslands. After initially approaching cautiously, scientists... »

Instruments of Science, Cultures and Civilizations | Edited by atimian and Dylan

When your closest neighbor is 1800 miles away, you know you're living in a pretty remote place. Actually, you know you're living in the most remote permanent settlement in the world, Tristan de... »

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Just outside of Cairo, this City of the Dead used to house only corpses dating back to the 7th century. Created as an Arabic cemetery during the conquest of Egypt, the necropolis has developed... »

Memento Mori, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries, Eccentric Homes, Outsider Architecture | Edited by JBHewlett, serflac and 2 others

Stretching through Angola and Namibia on the southwest coast of Africa, the Namib Desert gets less than a half inch of rain per year. It's a completely barren landscape, deathly hot and mostly... »

Natural Wonders, Extraordinary Flora | Edited by atimian, Dylan and others

In colonial Brazil, runaway slaves and free natives formed communities deep within the Amazon as a means of escaping the brutality of Portuguese slavery. A combination of dense vegetation,... »

Eccentric Homes | Edited by A Facebook user, atimian and others

The word tsingy is indigenous to the Malagasy language as a description of the badlands of Madagascar. The word can be translated into English as "where one cannot walk barefoot." The tsingys... »

Natural Wonders, Geological Oddities, Fascinating Fauna | Edited by Deryn, atimian and others

In the 18th century, Ambohimanga was a town that needed to protect its royal family. Shielded naturally by forests, the town also erected a massive wall, and seven outer gates to protect its... »

Architectural Oddities, Incredible Ruins | Edited by atimian and Dylan

Considering the size of the Obelisk of Axum, it is truly amazing that it was transported between continents twice during the last 100 years. However, for many people in Ethiopia, the return of the... »

Architectural Oddities, Incredible Ruins | Edited by serflac, atimian and 2 others