In April, 1986, the number 4 reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Northern Ukraine exploded. It remains the worst nuclear disaster in human history.
Nature’s power to take back abandoned spaces is humbling, to say the least. Sunken cities and overgrown ruins reveal how the wild reshapes what humans leave behind and how, in the fight between Man vs. Nature, nature always triumphs. These are 43 of those instances.
While humans build super tall skyscrapers, nature has been quietly growing its own giants for centuries. Here are nature's record-breakers that almost touch clouds while keeping their roots firmly in ancient soil.
Do you love to admire painting, reading, or just learning fascinating things about life and history, big and small? The Smithsonian Collection has all that for you.
As John Burgon said, "It seems no work of man's creative hand, by labor wrought as wavering fancy planned," Petra stands as humanity's most ambitious fusion of architecture and nature. Here is a little bit about this wonder.
Long before skyscrapers and bustling streets, Cahokia was the big league of urban living. With its ceremonial mounds and advanced society, it used to be a cultural and economic hub.
How you behave onboard can dramatically affect your journey—for better or worse. Check out what makes your flight neighbors remember you fondly and what will land you in a Reddit story.
If you dance to Samba, enjoy eating bacalhau (salted cod), or build using azulejos (decorative ceramic tiles), you have the Portuguese Empire to thank. All this influence is from the 15th century to the 19th century. Here is the story.
When millions of people in London started dumping their waste into the Thames, the river decided to fight back with a highly intolerable stink in 1858. Who would have thought that a nauseating crisis like this would bring about a sanitation revolution in London?
