The community of Fackler in Alabama, USA, is home to a natural phenomenon that attracts a steady stream of visitors. It interests curious hikers, hardened cave divers and photographers. Neversink Pit straddles a line somewhere between a sinkhole and a cave. But, however you define it, it is nothing less than extraordinary. The 40ft wide-pit…
Leon Weisener is a retired art professor and set painter who, by his own admission, has always used whimsy in his work. The Carabelle Bottle House, from its conception to anyone’s experience of visiting, could barely be more fitting of that description. Following his retirement to the small Florida town, Weisener had no idea why…
Utah‘s Great Salt Lake contains an extraordinary earthwork sculpture made from crystals, salt, and basalt. However, the 1,500 ft tall counterclockwise spiral can only be seen when the water level is lower than 4,197 ft. Constructed in 1970 by artist Robert Smithson, the jetty is situated on the north shore of the lake. It was…
In 1991, eight people entered Biosphere 2. It is 3,15 acre sealed glass facility in Oracle, Arizona. It had been built to mimic the environment of Earth (Biosphere 1) and contained a mini ocean, tropical rainforest, desert, wetland, and grassland. The idea was to determine, if the crew could thrive for two years in this…
Just 13 miles of Yosemite National Park, on California‘s Highway 395 you’ll find an amazing lake. Located near to the town of Lee Vining, Mono Lake is not only beautiful, but also has one of the most important ecosystems in the world. Thought to be around 760,000 years old, Mono Lake is one of the…
What makes a city so unique that it makes such an impact that triggers the imagination of a writer? Is it the people who live there, breathtaking architecture that defies centuries, or the cultural mixture that shows all the colors of the world pinned at one geographic point? Let’s take a look at how some…
Stuðlagil Canyon in east Iceland is a place that, despite its incredible beauty, remains under-the-radar for the majority of tourists. One reason for this is its accessibility, or lack of. It’s located 44 miles from the nearest town Egilsstaðir. It is further from the country’s capital city, Reykjavik, at 140 miles. Until 2006, this awe-inspiring…
If you find yourself in the famously affluent Beverly Hills area of Los Angeles, California, head to Walden Drive and Carmelita Avenue’s intersection. There, you’ll find a house both utterly enchanting and at odds with the slick and modern mansions of the area. Spadena House (otherwise known as The Witch’s House) stands like real-life recreation…
