The Kamchatka Peninsula is basically a 1,250km peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about 270,000 km2 (100,000 sq mi). According to TwistedSifter, the stunning ice cave you see above “was formed by a stream flowing from the hot springs associated with the Mutnovsky Volcano – the roof of this cave is now so thin that sunlight penetrates through it, eerily illuminating the icy structures within.” Continue reading for a video, more pictures, and additional information.
German photographer Sebastian Opitz captured these amazing pictures from the 85th floor of Dubai’s 1,358-foot-tall Princess Tower. Opitz says that thick fog is very rare in Dubai and occurs only a few times a year, evaporating quickly after 9am. Continue reading for a video, more pictures, and additional information.
A group of Russian tourists waited until official visiting hours were over at Egypt’s famous Giza Necropolis, before scaling the enormous Great Pyramid to take these incredible photos atop this wonder of the ancient world. That’s right, they evaded the attention of the security guards, which enabled photographer Vitaliy Raskalov to capture “pictures of the surrounding desert and the majestic Sphinx from the top of the 455ft structure.” Continue reading to see more.
Photo credit: Joe Acaba
The image above was captured by astronaut Joe Acaba of the Expedition 32 crew onboard the International Space Station. He was flying at an altitude of approximately 240-miles, recorded a series of images of Aurora Australis, also known as the Southern Lights, on July 15. Continue reading for more.
Joe McNally, a National Geographic photographer, climbed atop the world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa, and snapped an amazing picture looking down. Burj Khalifa was designed to be the centerpiece of a large-scale, mixed-use development that would include 30,000 homes, nine hotels (including The Address Downtown Dubai), 3 hectares (7.4 acres) of parkland, at least 19 residential towers, the Dubai Mall, and the 12-hectare (30-acre) man-made Burj Khalifa Lake. Continue reading for more.
The Cancun Underwater Museum is essentially a series of sculptures by Jason deCaires Taylor placed underwater off the coast of Isla de Mujeres and Cancun, Mexico. The project began in November 2009 with placement of a hundred statues in shallow waters of the Cancun National Marine Park, which had been previously damaged by storms. Continue reading for a video, more pictures, and additional information.
Photographer Suren Manvelyan is back at it again, and this time, it’s another batch of mind-blowing macro photographs of animal eyes. Just to recap, Suren is a professor at the Yerevan Waldorf School, specializing in physics, mathematics, projective geometry and astronomy. Continue reading to see more.
Photo credit: BoredPanda
No, this isn’t a computer-generated image, but rather a real street located in Porto Alegre, Brazil. It’s touted by locals as the world’s most beautiful street, filled with trees that were planted 70 years ago by German employees in a former brewery site. Click here to view the first image in today’s viral picture gallery. Continue reading for a video of an insane alpine coaster with no brakes.
What you’re looking at above is the Magic Mountain Hotel inside the Huilo-Huilo Biological Reserve in Chile, and not a fantasy movie set. Featuring a waterfall that cascades down the side of this unique hotel and a narrow swinging wooden bridge that sits high in the air, visitors will feel as if they’ve been transported to another time. Continue reading for a video, more pictures, and additional information.
Researchers at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) in Maryland utilizes the US Department of Agriculture’s Low Temperature Scanning Electron Microscope (LT-SEM) to study snow crystals. Simply put, snow crystals are placed onto copper metal sample plates containing pre-cooled methyl cellulose solution, and within a fraction of a second, they’re put into a reservoir of liquid nitrogen which rapidly cools them to -196°C, fusing them to the plates. Continue reading for more.