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These Seven Bizarre Bus Stops Are All In The Same Tiny Austrian Town
Krumbach, a tiny, 1000-person village in Austria, has some of the most avant-garde bus stops in the world. In exchange for a week-long holiday in the village, seven architects designed bus stops that are alternately whimsical, weird and dazzling.
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Monster Machines: 12 Pieces Of Tech That Turned The Tide At Normandy
The Allied Invasion of Normandy was one of the single most logistically and strategically complex manoeuvres ever concocted by the US military. With a strike force numbering in the hundreds of thousands and the momentum of the entire counter-offensive hanging in the balance, there was simply no room for failure.
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These Landscapes Covered In Oil Wells Are Like Huge Alien Cities
Crude oil — or petroleum — has been used since ancient times for several purposes, mostly for dimly lighting up buildings and streets. Only after inventing the fractional distillation of oil and discovering vast mineral oil fields under the ground and sea in the 19th and 20th centuries, petroleum became the most important material for…
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23 Amazing Landscape Photographs That Are Actually Renderings
It can be difficult to know what’s real and what’s fake when it comes to digital art these days. But don’t torture yourself worrying about it now: Here are 23 of the most amazing photorealistic 3D renderings of landscapes on the web. Each one is completely synthetic; every single detail generated by madly talented 3D…