The largest cave in the world is so high that it could house 40-story skyscrapers

In the year 1991, a man named Hồ Khanh discovered a cavity in the Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng park on the…

Why are there firefighters in Antarctica? Fire services at the South Pole

In 1948 an accidental fire destroyed the facilities of Station D, the scientific base that Great Britain had built in…

The mysterious seismic pulse that repeats every 26 seconds, coming from the Gulf of Guinea

Seismic detectors around the world have been capturing a curious and strange phenomenon for decades. Every 26 seconds the earth…

The world’s largest globes

A globe is a three-dimensional scale model of planet Earth represented on a sphere where, sometimes, the topography of the…

More than 200 people live in Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, the remotest town in the world, where outsiders are forbidden to settle

If you have ever wondered what it would be like to live in a place so isolated that there is…

Welcome Stranger, the largest gold nugget ever found

Mainly thanks to the cinema we identify the Gold Rush with the one that broke out in 1848 in California…

The spectacular coloured mountains of China and Peru

There are times when Nature seems capricious and turns something that should fall into the category of normal into a…

The unusual square waves of the island of Ré

Sometimes Nature is entertained in playing with shapes and textures, as if, boring and mischievous, it wanted to attract our…

The massive Pilat sand dune that devours trees and houses

Dune systems are often protected areas because of their high ecological and often tourist value. There are many, and some…

The highest mountain on Earth that no one has ever climbed

Everest and K2 see how every year many expeditions reach their summit. In fact the agglomeration of climbers in the…