Bridges That Babble On: 15 Amazing Roman Aqueducts
Aqueducts, those most triumphal examples of Roman arched architecture, have been displaying the engineering genius of the ancients for tens of centuries. These spectacular monuments not only ...
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Used Tires: Recycled Tire Rubber Furniture, Art & Design
Tires are boring. Except for the occasional horror experienced when one bursts or hits a nail, they're simply an additional expense for your car. It's amazing then, to see how many uses, both ...
15 High-Dollar Hacks: Steampunk Home Hacks & Vehicle Mods
You've seen Steampunk moving closer to mainstream. There's steampunk fashions, housewares, computer mods, guns, guitars, books, games, tattoos, and even and steampunk iPhone apps. Steampunk ...
Eye See: Astronomical Architecture Of The Jantar Mantar
The Jantar Mantar - 5 sprawling astronomical observatories - was built by Maharaja Jai Singh II in the early years of the 18th century. Not one of these elaborate ancient observatories boasted a ...
Global Ossuaries: 7 Creepy Wonders of the (Un)Dead World
It sounds like a horrible nightmare: human bones stacked in patterns on the floor, their skulls lining the walls and staring, gaping-eyed, at visitors. It's no nightmare, though: in churches, ...
Tilted In Your Favor: 13 (More!) Famous Leaning Towers
Just as there's more to food than pizza, there's more to leaning towers than Pisa. These 13 slanted spires show that staying on the straight & narrow isn't all it's cracked up to be; though if ...
Arkansas Innovation: Stunning Southern-Style Architecture
Architect Marlon Blackwell does something with his designs that many architects seem unable or unwilling to do: he takes the building's environment into consideration when designing a structure. ...
Shining Examples: 20 Cool Concept Cars of the Golden Age
A map of the history of the auto industry would show dozens, if not hundreds of roads not traveled. What if some of these visionary concepts had been allowed to hit the street? These outstanding, ...
Deserted Old-World Technology: 8 Abandoned Windmills
Windmills were one of humanity's prime sources of electricity before the technological revolution. Monuments to the technology of simpler times, these structures come in all shapes in ...
Watch it Bend: Record-Breaking Tower Tilts More Than Pisa
The leaning tower of Pisa was famously slanted for centuries before architects righted its stance. But there’s another leaning tower – this one is a Dutch church built in the 12th century. The ...
