Not everything on this planet that stops you in your tracks comes from nature. For good or bad, mans attempts to control nature have led to some successes and stunning failures. One of the largest hydro electric damming projects in the world is the Itaipu Dam in South...
Smaller than its infinitely more famous southern neighbour Pompeii, the port town of Herculaneum (along with Stabiae, Oplontis and Boscoreale) was also wiped off this planet when Vesuvius erupted in 79AD. Sitting on the north western flank of Vesuvius,...
Sitting ominously atop a hill in the residential district of Fairmount in Philadelphia, the Neo Gothic walls of Eastern State Penitentiary are as imposing today as they were when the building first opened in 1829 becoming home to 450 prisoners. A pioneer of the...
It’s perhaps one of the most famous historical sights in the world. Right up there with the Colosseum in Rome or the Acropolis in Athens but what exactly draws visitors in their millions annually to Pompeii, a ghost town of Vesuvius once it erupted in...
The bright lights and buzzing atmosphere of New York holds a fascination with many people. Whether you’re big on the shopping that the city is well known for, or you just want to experience the atmosphere for yourself, New York draws hundreds of thousands of visitors...