Eltz Castle is a medieval castle perched on a hill above the Moselle River between Koblenz and Trier in Germany. It has been owned by a branch of the Eltz family since the 12th century.
Gran Abuelo from Chile is currently the oldest tree in the world, estimated to be 5,484 years old.
Nintendo’s first headquarters in Kyoto. Founded in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi, a craftsman who made playing cards, it was initially called Nintendo Karuta.
The town of Suoszowa in Poland, where all 6,000 residents live on the same street, creating a unique single-lane layout that stretches over 9 kilometers…
The 1910 Jones map, one of the earliest forms of in-car automatic navigation. Such paper discs were placed on a turntable connected to the car’s wheels and would rotate in real-time with the car’s movement to provide direction.
Aloe Polyphylla (also known as Spiral Aloe) is famous for its astonishingly symmetrical pentagonal spiral growth.
A photograph of the control room of an early German UB-110 submarine.
The indoor waterfall at LaGuardia Airport in New York.
This photograph was taken in 1942 – the quality of the photo is astounding.
A 1959 Volkswagen with an in-car coffee maker.
In Green Valley, Arizona, I-19 is the only metric interstate highway in the United States. To this day, it still uses metric units.
The size of the clock in the south tower of Santiago de Compostela Cathedral (Spain).
Charging an electric Gremlin AMC at a sidewalk charging station. 25 cents per hour. Seattle, 1973.
An incredible mist hanging over the Tiffany Falls in Ontario.
Kumbhalgarh Fort, the second-longest continuous wall after the Great Wall of China.
Gerasiya, once the largest brothel in Ulaanbaatar in the 1940s, was closed in the mid-1950s.
Flight attendants of a certain Mongolian airline.
A samurai sword made from metal found in a meteorite from 4 billion years ago. Known as “The Sword of Heaven”.
The newly constructed Elbe Bridge in Hamburg. The original design was completed in 1887, featuring two magnificent Gothic gates.
The Sunngard handgun, designed in 1909, could hold 50 rounds simultaneously in two 25-round magazines.
Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness Study Area, filled with mushroom-shaped rock layers caused by erosion and petrified wood.
In 1925, an immigrant family stands at the edge of Ellis Island, looking at the hazy outlines of New York City.