Many of us fantasize about what we would do with our own island. Brendon Grimshaw turned his fantasy into a wondrous reality - a flora and fauna preserve, primarily housing over 100 land... »

Anomalous Islands, Extraordinary Flora, Fascinating Fauna, Natural History | Edited by Rachel

Michelangelo looked at a massive block of marble and saw the statue David. Edward Leedskalnin looked at South Florida's coral bedrock and saw a castle. Graffiti artists looked at the Berlin Wall... »

Extraordinary Flora, Unusual Monuments | Edited by serflac, Mark_Casey and others

Hidden within a tropical garden and adorned with a loud, colorful décor, The Carnivore opens up into a vegetarian's fiery nightmare, or a meat eaters Shangri-la, depending on your culinary... »

Commercial Curiosities, Bizarre Restaurants and Bars | Edited by Rachel

A tad less than 300 miles away from Tripoli there exists an ancient getaway, an oasis made of mud, lime, and the trunks of palms. Covered alleyways and heat reflecting, creme-colored walls weave... »

Architectural Oddities, Incredible Ruins, Subterranean Sites | Edited by serflac, Rachel and others

Imagine this: Walking along a pristine, uninhabited, unspoiled beach, the only sound is the waves crashing upon the shore, when you hear another less familiar sound that catches you off guard. The... »

Natural Wonders, Watery Wonders, Fascinating Fauna | Edited by TrevorShawnElia, Rachel and others

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

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

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