On the morning of April 18th 1906, San Francisco was struck with violent tremors coming from the San Andreas Fault. The resulting quake ranked a 7.8 magnitude on the Richter scale, it was a quake so massive that it was recorded as far away as Cape Town, South Africa...
Just like bees building a new hive, human beings are no strangers to changing their environment through building up new structures, as one of the oldest cities in the US, Boston is one of the best examples of this concept. With its constantly shifting landscape, nary...
One wonders if the Dutch soldiers manning the walls of Fort Amsterdam could have ever imagined the city that would grow from the wild river and terrain that surrounded them in 1624, I’m sure they didn’t have any clue that in just 30 years the colony containing the...
Among the many roadside attractions that Texas has to offer, one might not expect to find a replica of Stonehenge, the famous English stone structure thought to be everything from a burial site to a celestial calendar. Nestled on the campus of the University of Texas...
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel and the World’s First Underwater Tunnel The Thames Tunnel was the Big Dig of its day, what was originally supposed to be a project of only a few months took over 40 years to complete, with numerous engineering problems and even a few deaths...
As far as jackrabbits go, eight feet is pretty big to say the least. Don’t worry though, I’m not talking about some gargantuan mutant from the deepest, farthest reaches of cult cinema, I’m actually talking about Jack Ben Rabbit, the giant jack rabbit sculpture of...
