Columnar basalt formations like Devils Tower and the Giant's Causeway have amazed and mystified humans from time immemorial. We now…
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They’re beautiful and sinister, jutting up out of the landscape with a deceptive peace when inactive, but hiding the threat…
On May 4, 2007, the residents of the small Kansas town of Greensburg faced one of the worst natural disasters…
What is it about the human condition that compels us to bend nature to conform to our wishes? Even the…
Here an abstract composition of acid green and vivid violet; there, a sweeping brushstroke in a thick sea of pastel…
The earth is pocked with giant pits like scars, left behind by mining operations that take what they seek from…
Secondhand is one of the greenest ways to shop for books, so why shouldn’t bookstores themselves be secondhand, too? These…
Some of the most incredible places on Earth are those that are hidden from everyday view. This unbelievable site is…
Faceted like an irregular crystal, this building in Bilbao, Spain wasn’t simply born of some stroke of artistic inspiration. The…
The phenomenon known in psychological terms as pareidolia - seeing human features, especially faces, where they don't actually exist -…