Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, one of the richest men in the history of the world, was carried in a simple white shroud to an unmarked ...

At the turn of the 20th century, during the great era of railways, each city on the western seaboard of the North American continent needed...

Opal is one of the most beautiful of gemstones. These stones can flash every color of the spectrum with a brilliance that can even surpass ...

Jallikattu or Manju Virattu is a bull taming sport played in Tamil Nadu, India as a part of Pongal celebrations usually on the second and t...

The Adams River is a tributary of the Fraser River in British Columbia, Canada. During mid-October millions of sockeye salmon run through t...

Petoskey stones are composed of fossilized skeletons of  Hexagonaria percarinata , a type of coral from coral reefs that once covered all o...

The Amazonian moth belonging to the family of Urodidae weaves one of the strangest and most beautiful cocoons in the insect world. Unlike o...

The Shilin Stone Forest is a set of spectacular limestone formations located in Shilin Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan Province, in China, app...

The Seven Mile Bridge is an iconic bridge in the Florida Keys of United States, stretching out into the open sea, connecting Knight's K...

Mar Sem Fim  (“Endless Sea” in English) is a Brazilian yacht that was shipwrecked, sunk and subsequently got frozen in ice in Maxwell Bay o...