The Glória Funicular, Lisbon | Elevador da Glória, Portugal

The Glória Funicular is one of the funiculars existent in Lisbon, right downtown, most precisely on the Restauradores Square. It makes the connection between this square and Bairro Alto (literally High Quarter) on a 265 metres journey up or down the hill. When you go out of the funicular you will find on the right side the S. Pedro de Alcântara belvedere, from where you get a magnificent view of downtown Lisbon and the magical St. George Castle. Just across the road, slightly to the right, at Rua de S. Pedro de Alcântara, nos.39-49, lies the Instituto do Vinho do Porto, where a vast range of port-wines may be tasted and purchased in the sumptuous surroundings of the Palácio Ludovice (1749).

The Rhine Falls, Switzerland | The largest plain waterfall in Europe

The Rhine Falls (Rheinfall in German) is the largest plain waterfall in Europe, The falls are located on the High Rhine between the town council of Neuhausen am Rheinfall and Laufen-Uhwiesen, near the town of Schaffhausen in northern Switzerland, between the cantons of Schaffhausen and Zürich. They are 150 m (450 ft) wide and 23 m (75 ft) high. In the winter months, the average water flow is 250 m³/s, while in the summer, the average water flow is 700 m³/s. The highest flow ever measured was 1,250 m³/s in 1965; and the lowest, 95 m³/s in 1921.

Magical Art by Tomasz Alen Kopera

Tomasz Alen Kopera was born in 1976 in Poland. He graduated from Wroclaw Institute of Technology as an engineer. Independently began to draw. For his work only uses oil paint and canvas, no computer technology. Since 2005 he lives and works in Ireland in his own studio. He is a member of the art collective Libellule Group formed by Lucas Kandl. Tomasz interested in the depths of the human subconscious and from contact with the universe. His works can clearly be seen as fantasy and myth-making components of aesthetics.

Silent Hill by Johnny Joo

The number of inhabitants of our planet grows daily and seemingly people gradually have more and more land to develop. American 23-year-old photographer Johnny Joo like to visit abandoned places and shoot at them because they look scary and mysterious, just like in his favorite game Silent Hill. Johnny even release photobook "Empty Spaces",  will feature 116 images, which was released in last month.

Bloodwood Tree | The tree oozes dark red colored sap

Bloodwood — This unusual tree, known as the Pterocarpus angolensis, is teak native to southern Africa, known by various names such as Kiaat, Mukwa, and Muninga. Blood red wood, It the named after the magnificent dark red coloured sap from the stem or branch of a damaged tree, almost like the body part of a cut animal, so it is also called the bloodwood tree. Adhesive, reddish-brown water closes the wound for healing. The bloodwood name of these trees is derived from the reddish-black to brown that accumulates in the wounds of the stems or trunk.

Hong Kong Building Construction Sites | The Colorful Cocoons

Photographer Peter Steinhauer‘s drew attention to staying in Hong Kong, the appearance of bright multi-colored pillars in the midst of the gray mass of skyscrapers. Having studied the question carefully, the author has created a series of images. In his two Cocoons series, Steinhauer, who lived in Asia for near twenty years, beautifully captured the style of construction that is unique to Hong Kong in which the building is wrapped in silk fabric to prevent debris from falling onto the street and pedestrians below. It is noteworthy that it is not just the pillars of different colors. And even more interesting that these "pods" are used, both in the construction and dismantling at skyscrapers. Filmed an impressive selection of successful photos, Steinhauer decided to make a photo series, which so called "Cocoon". According to the author, he had seen similar technology in Japan, but not for houses such heights that it is really impressive.

Super Creepy Sculpture | Implants Teeth into the Shoe Sole

UK artists Mariana Fantich and Dominic Young of Fantich and Young have covered the soles of shoes in hundreds of false teeth for their super creepy sculpture series “Apex Predator” for young girls. The pair of youth footwear are mary jane style, with hot red patent red surfaces and a buckled strap. at their sole, instead of the traditional rubber bottom, the creative duo has implanted hundreds of individual back and front teeth dentures into the base. the result transforms the otherwise adorable wearable into something a bit more sinister, resulting in a distributing twist on a classic childhood item.

The longest tree-lined avenue in the world | Cedar Avenue of Nikkō, Japan

The Cedar Avenue of Nikko is a street in Japan lined with approximately 13,000 cryptomeria trees, known as Sugi, the national tree of Japan. Consisting of three parts converging on the city of Imaichi, the Cedar Avenue of Nikko is 35.41 kilometers long and is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest tree-lined avenue in the world. The Cedar Avenue of Nikko is the only cultural property designated by the Japanese Government as both a Special Historic Site and a Special Natural Monument. The cedar trees were planted approximately 400 years ago by Matsudaira Masatsuna, a feudal lord serving Tokugawa Ieyasu, who donated them to the Nikko Tosho-gu. This monumental project was begun around 1625 and required about 20 years to be completed. It is estimated that some 200,000 cedars were planted at this time.

Festival of Music and Light | Sydney, Australia

Vivid Sydney, a festival of light art, music, and ideas, is going on now in Sydney through June 9, 2014, whose founder is a well-known musician Lou Reed, and helped his wife Laurie Anderson.  So it was at first, but now the festival has an impressive team of organizers. It is also noteworthy that the festival has outgrown itself and today is considered a significant event not only for the metropolis. In Sydney attracts thousands of tourists and music fans to take an active part in many related events. We will not focus on the musical part of the festival and offer you some of the most striking images of the light part of the event.

The largest Solar Furnace | Odeillo in Pyrénées-Orientales, France

The largest Solar Furnace is at Odeillo in the Pyrénées-Orientales in France, opened in 1970. It employs an array of plane mirrors to gather sunlight, reflecting it onto a larger curved mirror. Solar  furnace  consists of 10000 concave mirrors that reflect and focus the sun's rays on the square diagonal of 40 inches. Diameter mirror construction is 54 meters. An array of mirrors acts as a parabolic reflector, concentrating light into focus. Temperature is in focus, as if in this place at the same time sent 22,000 suns. It can reach 3500 ° C (all depends on the position of the mirrors). Solar furnace used for industrial purposes. With its help generate electricity, melt steel, creating hydrogen fuel and nano-materials.

Real Gabinete Português de Leitura

The Real Gabinete Português de Leitura (in English: Royal Portuguese Reading Room) has the largest and most valuable literary of Portuguese outside Portugal. Constructed between 1880 and 1887, it has more than 350,000 volumes in a library, fully computerized, bringing together rare books from the 16th, 17th, and 18th. The library receives a copy of Portugal for each of the works published in the country according to its status of “legal deposit.” Its incredible architectural beauty and its rich collection transport you to the 19th century when visiting this library in Rio de Janeiro.

Striking Sea Sandcastles

Hey, these are not the homes of mutant sea creatures or geographic oddities forged from centuries of tidal currents, they’re sand art or sandcastles built by a Massachusetts man who goes by Sandcastlematt. Using found objects like vines, plywood, and other junk he creates a sturdy framework to which he applies the classic drip method sandcastle technique resulting in these strange temporary structures that look like contemporary land art pieces. One of Matt’s sandcastles recently made the rounds in a viral meme suggesting his work was the result of lightning striking sand, but Scientific American debunked it.

Self-Taught Paintings by Lisa Adams

Lisa Adams, Queensland based self-taught, a realist artist who lives remotely on a bush property in the hinterland of Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. Working 6 hours a day, 6 days a week in her isolated studio downstairs, she produces surreal paintings depicting arresting views with occasionally improbable imagery. Although a painter for over twenty-five years, she has had only three commercial shows, as a result of her slow rate of production. Despite painting daily, she may produce only three or four paintings in a year, five during her most prolific years. It takes months to produce a single painting. Often, she would overpaint an image two or three times to get it right.

Spouting Horn Blowhole | Kauai, Hawaii

Spouting Horn is located in the Koloa district on the southern coast of Kauai. This area of Kauai is known for its crashing waves (nearby Poipu translates to "crashing"). These waves erode lava rocks on the coastline which can create narrow openings, as is the case with Spouting Horn. With every wave, water shoots upward when it is forced through an opening and creates a sound suggestive of hissing. The spray can shoot as high as 50 feet in the air. Spouting Horn is one of the most photographed locations on the island of Kauai. The original Hawaiian name was puhi, meaning blowhole. The Spouting Horn is a part of the Koloa Heritage Trail, a 10 mile trail in the Koloa district.

Aqueduct Veluwemeer – Drive Under The Water

Harderwijk, Holland — There are so many amazing things in the world that sometimes you just do not have time to cover everything. We do not get tired of admiring human genius and share the story of a unique bridge that takes your breath away when you look at it. In 2002, the world saw the Veluwemeer Aqueduct, the water aqueduct is a creation of the best engineers that connected the mainland of the Netherlands and the man-made island of Flevoland.

Veluwemeer Aqueduct, Harderwijk

Wunderland Kalkar Amusement Park | Nuclear Plant Transformed Into Amusement Park

Wunderland Kalkar Amusement Park, The German Nuclear plant transformed into Amusement Park, cleverly combines a never-been-used multi-million-pound reactor with classic fair rides, including a merry-go-round, Ferris wheel, carousel and log flume. A swing ride has even been fitted inside the old cooling tower, while a 130ft-high climbing wall features on the outside. 

In Kalkar in 1972, construction was started on the SNR-300, the first large breeding reactor in Germany. The reactor was designed to use plutonium as fuel and be cooled by sodium. These types of reactors, however, have a much higher potential for disaster compared to a conventional reactor. The neighbors became a bit concerned, and the highly controversial construction was continually delayed.

Meghalaya's Double-Decker Live Root Bridges

Meghalaya's Double-Decker and Single-Decker root bridges are unique in the world and are a sight to behold. The bridges are tangles of massive thick roots, which have been intermingled to form a bridge that can hold several people at a time. Khasi people have been trained to grow these bridges across the raised banks of streams to form a solid bridge, made from roots. The living bridges are made from the roots of the Ficus elastica tree, which produces a series of secondary roots that are perched atop huge boulders along the streams or the riverbanks to form bridges.

Lithuanian street artist Ernest Zacharevic

Ernest Zacharevic is a Lithuanian street artist currently living in George Town, located in the province of Penang, Malaysia. As part of the George Town Festival that runs from June 15 – July 15, Ernest has been putting up some incredible street art all around the city. The piece getting the most buzz online has been his artwork featuring two kids painted on a wall. He then strategically placed a real bike in front of the wall which not only gave the piece a three dimensional feel (that you can physically touch), but encouraged people to interact with the artwork and use their own creativity to put their personal spin on it. The results have been spectacular, and the street art on Armenian Street has generated over a hundred submissions to Ernest’s Facebook page. You can check out the entire gallery here on Facebook. 

Paper Birds Craft Work | Diana Herrera Beltran

Diana Beltran Herrera is a Colombian multidisciplinary artist, she paints and makes sculptures and collages. Fascinated by nature and its diversity of colors and shapes, a complex series of tropical birds paper. It consists of soft materials and bright colors, nature may be unreal, but she dreamed nature, where things are made of magic in a poetic world. A reinterpretation still close enough to our world. The result is beautiful, the interpretation and the technical craft work.

Bimmah Sinkhole | Hawiyat Najm Park, Oman

The Bimmah Sinkhole, located in Hawiyat Najm Park, literally meaning Meteor Fall Park in Arabic, is a sinkhole in Muscat Oman. Bimah sinkhole is beautiful natural landmark - a place of refreshment at the long coastal road of Oman. Bimah sinkhole was formed in limestone by a collapse of large cave chamber. Earlier locals believed that this hole was formed by meteorite ("piece of Moon"). The sinkhole is approximately 50 by 70 m large, 20 - 30 m deep. At the bottom is located deep blue-green lake with a heap of rock - remnants of the collapse. Municipality has developed a park around the sinkhole, there is built concrete stairway leading to the lake. Locals and tourists often enjoy a refreshing bath in the lake. Most likely the sinkhole is connected to the 600 m distant sea. Top layer in the lake is crystal clear, but at the depth of some 8 m water has sulphuric taste due to sulphur oxidizing bacteria and is less clear.

UK Aerial Photography by Jason Hawkes

Photographer Jason Hawkes has been making fascinating aerial images since 1991. With a gyro-stabilized camera, he takes photos directly from the open door of a helicopter. Hawkes has covered subjects around the world like DUBLIN NEW YORK LIBYA but i like the some aerial shots of the United Kingdom. 

An offshore wind farm standing in the North Sea off the coast of Kent.

Atomic Overlook | The view of atomic explosion by Clay Lipsky

Atomic Overlook, L.A. artist Clay Lipsky opens an engaging dialog about public fascination with the nuclear bomb. The entire series of images created by combining images of boring tourist photos and explosions carried out during the atomic bomb tests. According to the author of "Atomic Ovrelook", tourists are always willing to look at anything, even if it is a bit boring and mediocre. In his series of photos Clay Lipsky "painted" people looking at something really unusual and different. Looks really unusual, and thank God that the photos are not real.

The Gateshead Millennium Bridge | A Pedestrian and Cyclist Tilt Bridge

The Gateshead Millennium Bridge is a pedestrian and cyclist tilt bridge spanning the River Tyne in England between Gateshead's Quays arts quarter on the south bank, and the Quayside of Newcastle upon Tyne on the north bank. The award-winning structure was conceived and designed by architects Wilkinson Eyre and structural engineers Gifford. The bridge is sometimes referred to as the 'Blinking Eye Bridge' or the 'Winking Eye Bridge' due to its shape and its tilting method. In terms of height, the Gateshead Millennium Bridge is slightly shorter than the neighbouring Tyne Bridge, and stands as the sixteenth tallest structure in the city.

Mud Volcanoes of Gobustan | Azerbaijan

Mud Volcanoes - Gobustan, Azerbaijan is home to more than any other mud volcanoes in the world. There are more than 300 mud volcanoes in Gobustan; more than half the mud volcanoes known to exist in the entire world. The rare formations draw geologists and tourists from around the world to see the spectacles, which can shoot flames more than 15 meters long and drop prodigious amounts of mud in the process. There are also those who seek the mud volcanoes of the Baku area for their medicinal properties. The Firuz Crater, Salyan, and Gobustan are all sought-after destinations for their healing qualities, where tourists plunge themselves into the mineral-laden mud.

Avenue of the Baobabs – Madagascar

The beautiful avenue of the baobabs is a popular chain of unique and  pristine bao bab trees lining on the dirt road connecting between Morondava and Belon'i Tsiribihina in the Menabe region in western Madagascar. Avenue of the baobabs is one of the most visited locations in the region and Madagascar's first natural monument. The phenomenal landscape of these Madagascar trees attract travelers from around the world. 

3D Garage Door Sticker | Style Your Garage

To decorate your garage in special way to create incredible optical illusions that would make any nosy neighbor envious of your lifestyle. German company StyleYourGarage makes deceptively realistic garage door stickers that will cause neighbors, friends and passers-by to stop and stare. These garage billboards, as they are known, are made from high-quality material and can withstand sun, rain, wind and cold weather. The designers added some elephants and alligators in there just for fun, this leaving aside the stickers that actually feature cars. There is also a tank in there, a bunch of gold, a horse and a wine deposit. We feasted our eyes on each and everyone of them and we appreciate their subtle humor.

The Magnificent Structure of Ancient Step well, Chand Baori | Rajasthan India

Chand Baori is a stepwell situated in the village of Abhaneri near Jaipur in the Indian state of Rajasthan.  Abhaneri is a village in the Dausa district of Rajasthan state in India. It is situated at a distance of 95 km from Jaipur, on the Jaipur-Agra road. It is located opposite Harshat Mata Temple and was constructed in 800 AD. Chand Baori is one of the oldest and is considered to be among the biggest in the world, even most attractive landmarks in Rajasthan. It was built by King Chanda of the Nikumbha Dynasty between 800 and 900 AD and was dedicated to Hashat Mata, Goddess of Joy and Happiness upon completion.