Elevated Highway Wollongong Australia

Elevated Highway Wollongong Australia

Beautiful Island City On The Water

Mexcaltitán de Uribe, also known simply as Mexcaltitán, is a small man-made island-city off the coast in the municipality of Santiago Ixcuintla in the Mexican state of Nayarit. Legend has it that it was the Aztlan of the Aztecs, their home city and birthplace from where they set out on their pilgrimage in 1091 that led them to the founding of Tenochtitlan.

Underwater Waterfall Mauritius

Underwater Waterfall Mauritius

Mauritius viewed from different angles, the ocean is clearly just a spectacular spectrum of blues, greens, and white, visually simulating a sense of three-dimensionality that dives down like a streaming waterfall. Though it's made obvious that there isn't a roaring cascade, there's still something extremely magical about the idea of an underwater waterfall, especially since there is so much left unknown about our planet's oceans.

World's Biggest Book Maze - aMAZEme London

World's Biggest Book Maze - aMAZEme London

The world's biggest book maze constructed with 250,000 books by Brazilian artists Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo, at the Royal Festival Hall, on the southbank, in central London.

The aMAZEme has been installed in the capital's Royal Festival Hall as part of the Southbank Centre's Festival of the World. Bookworms are invited to visit the project, built over the course of four days with the help of hundreds of volunteers.

They will get the chance to navigate the walled maze, with an accompanying audio tour further immersing the audience in a world of celebrated literature.

Oxfam has loaned 150,000 used books to the project, while another 100,000 have been donated by publishing houses from around the UK. All of the books will be given to Oxfam once the maze is deconstructed, with the funds from the project being used for their work fighting poverty around the world.

Amazing Sliding House Style

Amazing Sliding House Style

Peeling away the original facade, british artist and designer alex chinneck has slid the front off a four storey house in the seaside town of margate in kent, uk. The original, derelict structure had been abandoned for 11 years, and its new face gives the appearance that it just slipped down, onto the ground. The artwork is the result of an innovative collaboration between the artist and british industry, as the self initiated £100,000 project was constructed from donations of materials and professional services from ten different companies. Also supported by the arts council, england, the building stands out from its surrounding neighbors and offers a welcoming facelift from the previous discarded house that was an eyesore for the street.

Wrold's First Cave With Own Weather System

Er Wang Dong is a cave system located in Chongquing province, China. The cave system is known for a long time ago but it was never truly investigated until now. A team of 15 members explored the caves more detailed and discovered rare phenomenon – a cave so huge that it developed its own weather system. The team consisted of photographers and highly experienced cavers.

The weather system is inside the Cloud Ladder Hall and it forms clouds at approximate height of 250 m (820 ft). The weather hall takes area of nearly 12 and a half acres, or enough to make 12 football fields there.
Robbie Shone, a photographer and a “cave man” from Manchester, said: “I had never seen anything quite like the inside cloud ladder before. Thick cloud and fogs hangs in the upper half of the cave, where it gets trapped and unable to escape through the small passage in the roof.” He also added that “Most caves either are accessed by large walking entrance, some require a long deep swim, other may be very vertical in nature where you need ropes to abseil (rappel) down the walls deep into the caves,”


According to Shone, some parts of the cave system had been used by miners before, but there are no signs or records of previous detailed exploration like this one.

via: [weather.com]

Sorek Stalactites Colorful Illumination

Sorek Stalactites Colorful Illumination

The Sorek Stalactites Cave situated near Beit Shemesh, Israel. The cave, 82 meters long and 60 meters wide, was discovered accidentally by workers blasting at the nearby quarry in 1968. Recently this beautiful cave was illuminated with a lighting system that attract more visitors.

Fascinating Look at Dubai's Futuristic Floating Building

Zaha Hadid Architects unveils a new futuristic, high-tech floating building for Dubai. It's called the Opus Office Tower, and features a cubed-design with a large void in the center, splitting the building into two structures. They are connected by an cleverly concealed base, which makes the edifice appear as though it is floating above ground.


The multi-purpose building is an eye-catching architectural fixture that is meant to complement the modern, Middle Eastern cityscape. It is also designed to present a different view in the day and night.

The project explains: "A pixelated reflective facade renders the cube full by day; by night it 'dematerializes' as light floods the void." It's sure to be an attraction for tourists and even more so given the additional project of designing the very first ME by Melia hotel in the Middle East within the complex. As of now, it is slated to be completed in 2016.

Visually Stunning Agricultural Terraces

Visually Stunning Agricultural Terraces

One of the most visually stunning Inca ruins is at Moray, an archaeological site in Peru approximately 50 km northwest of Cuzco and just west of the village of Maras. In a large bowl-like depression, is constructed a series of concentric terraces that looks like an ancient Greek amphitheater.

The largest of these terraces are at the center – they are enormous in size, and descend to a depth of approximately 150 meter, leading to a circular bottom so well drained that it never completely floods, no matter how plentiful the rain.