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At night the hot gases burn to emit an eerie blue glow that is unique to Kawah Ijen. Kawah Ijens sulphuric gases are also mined for sulphur. The miners break the cooled material into large pieces and carry it away in baskets to a nearby refinery. A worker can earn up to $13 dollars a day in this way. The workers work in extremely hazardous condition with insufficient protection. Most of them suffers from numerous respiratory problems due to breathing toxic fumes day in and out....

The park has two other volcanoes on the northern end that last erupted over 20,000 years ago. These volcanoes have been together building the mountains of Tongariro National Park for over two million years. Ruapehu is one of the world’s most active volcanoes and the largest active volcano in New Zealand. Between major eruptions, a beautiful emerald crater lake forms, fed by melting snow. Their brilliant colors are due to dissolved minerals leaching from the surrounding rocks....

The lake is believed to have been formed when a meteor struck the earth approximately 25 million years ago. Eventually melt water from the surrounding mountains filled the basin forming Lake Karakul with a diameter of 25 km. The name was changed with the advent of the Soviet system in the 1920s. Lake Karakul has two basins separated by a peninsula from the south and an island in the north....

The Sivash lagoons are extremely shallow with a mean depth of just 50 cm to 1 meter. The deepest place is only about 3 meters. The bottom is covered with silt up to 5 meters thick. Over 200 million tonnes of salt is estimated to exist in Sivash. Salt harvesting is hence, a big business in Crimea. This satellite picture shows the variety of colors the lagoons produce owing to its varied chemical composition....

Some of these aquascapes can take months to prepare. Whisper of the pines, designed by Serkan Cetinkol of Istanbul, Turkey. The aquarium contains 150 liters of water and is pictured after 4 months of growth. Forest Morning, designed by Pavel Bautin of Saint Petersburg, Russia. The 400-liter tank contains 8 types of plants and took 6 months to grow. Way to Heaven, designed by Dmitriy Parshin of Moscow, Russia. This 600-liter tank took 9 months to prepare....

The worlds tallest Ferris wheel opened on the Las Vegas Strip on March 31, 2014. High Roller has 28 glass enclosed cabins that can fit up to 40 people each.

But are those human hands? The crusts incorporate small amounts of uranium, which decays into thorium over time. Modern humans arrived in Europe from Africa some 41,500 years ago. Another possibility is that the paintings werent made by humans at all, but by Neanderthals. Many scientists had long doubted whether Neanderthals were capable of producing symbolic art. It does however surprise archaeologists like Pat Shipman, who has spent a lifetime studying symbolic behavior....

The restaurant is powered by the thermal energy generated by the incinerator itself. The incinerator was inaugurated in 1991. To make the air quality safe for the restaurant, the incinerator was fitted with special anti pollution devices. you might also see Yangming Shan, Kuan-yin Shan and the whole of the Taipei Basin. “Here, we are cleaning up the mess which is produced in our daily lives.” Instrument readings help visitors understand the efforts being undertaken at the facility to treat the waste gases....

The population of Sealand rarely exceeds five, and its inhabitable area is 550 square meters. At the time of its construction, the forts were on international waters. The facility was called Roughs Tower, and was occupied by 150300 Royal Navy personnel throughout World War II. Lacking any real economy, none of them ever made it into circulation. As many as 150,000 passports were in circulation. Instead, Sealand started taking bookings for tourist visits....

It is the third highest skyscraper in the country. But a banking crisis brought those plans to an abrupt halt in 1994. The government took control over the building and construction was never completed. Some residents even have cars, parked inside of the building’s parking garage. Some seven hundred families comprising over 3,000 residents live in the tower today. Residents claim that Tower of David is far more safer than anywhere else in Caracas....

Even the figures for the known wrecks are impressive. For example, the websiteWrecksite.eucontains records of more than 148,000 wrecks at the time of this writing. A large number of shipwrecks are historically significant and protected under UNESCO as underwater cultural heritage. Some of them have turned into tourist attractions because of the many photographic opportunities they offer. The capsized shipdrew thousands of eager touristto the area. Here are some spectacular wrecks that are worth visiting while they are still there....

The Central-Mid-Levels escalator system covers over 800 meters in distance and elevates approximately 135 meters from bottom to top. To ride the complete length of the escalator system one-way takes about 20 minutes. The trip can be shortened if you walk while the escalator is moving, which most people do. Opened in 1993, the Hong Kong Central-Mid-Levels escalator now carries more than 55,000 people each day. After 10am, the flow is then reversed so that the escalators travel uphill until midnight....

The water was rich in sulphate of lime that was deposited onto the lake floor. Photo credit Birridas are circular or oval in shape and range from 100 m to 1 km wide. They commonly consist of a central, raised platform ringed by a moat-like depression. Most birridas retain water for several months following rain. Some birridas are connected to the sea by channels and receive seawater, where they form shallow bays....