Ithaa has made dining under the sea a reality for many. It’s the world’s first undersesa restaurant, located 16-feet below sea level at the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island in Alif Dhaal Atoll in the Republic of Maldives. The food served at this restaurant is basically contemporary European with Asian influences. Continue reading for a video, more pictures, and additional information.
To commemorate the anniversary of 9/11, EarthCam has released a Twin Towers tribute video that shows the current progress of the Freedom Tower, which is currently the tallest building in NYC, at 1,250-feet-tall. Continue reading for the video and more information.
Yes, they actually drained Niagara Falls in 1967 via a man-made cofferdam. This happened in response to a local newspaper report that stated the falls were being destroyed by erosion caused by previous rock debris. Once the debris was cleared, Albert Elia Construction Company workers restored waterflow to the falls. Click here to view the first image in this week’s WINS gallery. Continue reading for a video of liquid fire becoming a metal sword in just minutes.
There are the obvious man-made crop circles, and then there’s these five mind-bending anomalies. To start things off, what you see above is a mysterious crop circle with a being of apparent extraterrestrial origin, and a message in binary code. Continue reading to see more.
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Finally, new information has surfaced about the mysterious Baltic Sea UFO has surfaced, and “to some observers, it is a UFO – The ‘Roswell of the Ocean’, while others speculate that it is a Nazi anti-submarine defence, or a plug to the underworld.” Continue reading for the interview and more information.
The man you see above is Spencer West, a courageous man who was born in Toronto, Canada, 31 years ago. He lost his legs when he was five due to sacral agenesis, a genetic disorder that left his lower spine poorly developed and his legs permanently crossed. Doctors amputated his legs right below his pelvis, and told his parents that he would never be able to sit up. Never say never, as 26 years later, Spencer completed the impossible: he scaled Mt. Kilimanjaro over a seven-day period. Continue reading for a video, more pictures, and additional information.
A confluence, also referred to as a convergence, happens when two or more bodies of water meet. In the amazing image above, “we see the confluence of the Rhone and Arve rivers in Geneva, Switzerland. The river on the left is the Rhone, which is just exiting Lake Lehman. The river on the right is the Arve, which receives water from the many glaciers of the Chamonix valley (mainly the Mer de Glace) before flowing north-west into the Rhone on the west side of Geneva, where its much higher level of silt brings forth a striking contrast between the two rivers.” Continue reading to see more.
No, The Venetian Macao isn’t located in Las Vegas, but rather Macau, one of the two special administrative regions of the People’s Republic of China, the other being Hong Kong. At 10.5-million-square-feet, it’s currently the world’s largest casino, and the sixth largest building in the world. It cost the Las Vegas Sands corporation $2.4-billion to construct this 40-story luxury resort. Continue reading for videos, more pictures, and additional information.
You’ve probably heard the phrase, “once in a blue moon”, far too often, and this rare phenomena is actually happening tonight. That’s right, a blue moon happens when there are two full moons in a month, “and today is the day, when for the first time in two years we will be treated to our second full moon in August, thanks to the moon last reaching its peak on August 2.” Continue reading for a video and more information.
Huang Guofu, a 42-year-old man from China, lost both of his arms in a childhood accident, but that didn’t stop him from pursuing his dream of becoming a famous painter. In the beginning, he used only his feet and sold artwork on the streets of China. It wasn’t until he started painting with his teeth did things really start taking off for him. Continue reading for the news report, more pictures, and additional information.