Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg: America’s Longest Place Name

There are plenty of unusual lake names in the United States, but few can compete with Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. Located in Webster, Massachusetts, this extraordinary name has become almost as famous as the lake itself.

Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, also known as Webster Lake, in Massachusetts.

U Bein Bridge, Myanmar | The Oldest and Longest Teakwood Bridge in the World

U Bein Bridge — Myanmar, A country located in Southeast Asia, the Indochina peninsula, while not so popular among tourists as India or Hong Kong. But even this relatively small country has a number of attractions that certainly deserve the attention of travellers.

Birds Painting on Unfolded Medicine Boxes

Madrid-based artist Sara Landeta is currently working on a series of birds painted on the backs of unfolded medicine boxes. You can follow her work on the ongoing series on Facebook and on her blog. Landeta is represented by 6mas1.

The Zhangye Danxia landform | The Colorful Mountains of China

The Zhangye Danxia landform is also known as the eye candy of Zhangye. Many artists admire this masterpiece as it appears like a perfect painting on canvas. This 400-square-kilometer attraction is located in in Linze and Sunan counties in Gansu Province in central north China.

Zhangye danxia landform, colorful mountains

Portraits Painted On Beer Cans by Kim Alsbrooks | My white trash family

An amazing series by American artist Kim Alsbrooks, based in Philadelphia, who uses crushed cans of beer or soda to create portraits of historical figures found in museums. Kim's inspiration to create this series is that it causes frustration that some ideologies, such as classism, are maintained; these paintings are part of "My white trash family". Kim took portraits that were painted on ivory (from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries) to make a replica of them on crushed cans and fast food wrappers. Kim's idea is to play with the perception of the elite in society today.

Glass-Bottomed Bridge in China

Glass bridge in China — Recently, China has opened an extraordinary suspension bridge, which is located in Pingjiang County, in the province of Hunan, southern China, at a height of one hundred and eighty metres. Rocks, between which there is a unique bridge that straddles two rocky peaks 300 metres apart. All the tourists passing the data structure are in this horror, as the blade is a fully transparent glass-bottom bridge. The construction of the bridge is loosely fixed, and the breeze is constantly rocking the bridge. People who panic passing attraction left unattended. Emergency here is specially trained personnel.

Tree of Life, Bahrain | Shajarat-al-Hayat

In the desert of Bahrain, where there are no surface or groundwater sources, quite inexplicably, for 400 years, a lonely acacia tree, called by locals "Hadzharat Al Haya" or "Shajarat al-Hayah", which means "tree of life", has grown. According to biblical tradition, the tree of life is located in the paradise gardens of Eden in Bahrain, and so many call it the tree of the Garden of Eden. Lonely Acacia has become the main attraction of Bahrain; tourists pull, feel involved in the secret, and touch the symbol of survival and triumph over circumstances.

Henna Tattoo Crowns Art

Henna Heals is managed by a committed team of 150 artists worldwide. They create elegant henna crowns, which feature traditionally feminine floral patterns, religious symbols and messages of hope, help women suffering from cancer cope with the loss of their hair to cancer, as a form of empowerment for people experiencing hair loss caused by the cancer treatments. For people suffering from cancer, losing their hair to chemotherapy is a demoralizing difficulty that only adds to the emotional and physical struggles that come with their disease.

Tsunoshima Bridge | Japan's longest toll-free Bridge

Japan's longest toll-free bridge, linking the island of Tsunoshima in Yamaguchi Prefecture with Honshu, was built in 2000. Since then, a longer bridge has been built in Okinawa. The Tsunoshima Bridge, built at a cost of 14.9 billion yen, which works out at about 150,000 USD per inhabitant, spans 1.78 kilometres, 90 metres longer than the Kuruma Bridge in Okinawa, the longest toll-free road bridge in Japan until now. Tsunoshima, with a population of 996, is a small, 4.1-square-km island off the coast of Hohoku, a fishing town in western Yamaguchi.

Daily Overview — Planet Earth

Daily Overview is a project that shows daily satellite images of different parts of the Earth, giving us a new point of view to observe our planet. The idea of this project is the "Overview Effect", which is what astronauts experience when they look at Earth. At that point, they can understand the true value of our planet and how important it is to take care of it. The images that give us this project provide us an idea of our presence and size on the planet; we can see how the human geometry adapts, occupying and transforming the surface.

Shin-Nagoya Thermal Power Station, Japan