Streets

Most Winding Road, San Fransisco, USA




Narrowest Street, Castletown , England



Widest Road, Buenos Aires , Argentina



Most Uphill Street, Dunedin , New Zealand



Most Confusing Street, Svindon , England



Most Jammed Street, Jakarta , Indonesia

10 Geological Miracles

1. The Wave. Between Arizona and Utah - USA

made of sand 190 years ago that turned into rocks.


2. Antelope Canyon . Navajo Land, Arizona - USA




3. Great Blue Hole ( Belize )

Lay 60 miles from Belize, form a circle with 0.4 km as its diameter. great place for diving. its depth is around 480 feet or 145 meter, thats where its dark blue color come from.


4. Crystal Cave of the Giants ( Mexico )

Lay in a mining at Chihuahua, Mexico . Various colors and sizes, including silver and golden ones.


5. Eye of the Sahara ( Mauritania )

Lays in south west Sahara desert with 30 miles diameter, looks very clear from the sky. the rounded shape still remains a mystery.


6. Blue Lake Cave ( Brazil )



7. Giants Causeway ( Ireland )

caused by volcanic reactions when the mountain erupted. mostly are hexagonal with highest peak of 12 meters.


8. Hell Gate ( Uzbekistan )

usually called as "the door to hell". lays near a small town, Darvaz. 35 years ago, a geologic team was searching for a gas source. but what they found was this big fire cave. it's assumed that it will keep burning forever.


9. Wave Rock ( Australia )

made naturally itself. called as "Wave Rock" for its shape looks like wave. the height could reach 15 meters and 110 meters length.

10. Chocolate Hills ( Bohol, Philippines )

width reaches 50 km square.

Kung Fu Pandas

These photos were taken in Beijing, China, at the Panda Reserve

"OK, Mum, you can come and get me down now!"



"I'm only three years old, but I'm the King of the World!"



"Look deep into my eyes. You are starting to feel sleepy."



"I'm a Kung Fu Panda. Bring it on!"



"Okay, on the count of three, lift!"



"Does this log make my butt look too big?"



"Peek a boo!"



HELP!!



"Sometimes, I just take a little nap!"



"You are accusing the wrong panda. I didn't steal this bamboo shoot. I looked up, and it was just there!"



"Panda aerobics were fun, but they are so tiring!"



"Finished, Mum! Look, I licked the bowl clean."



"Do I have any milk on my face?"



"Let me out of here, so I can play with you!"



"Sometimes I dream of bigger things!"



"It was fun getting here, but how am I going to get down?"



"She said I was a naughty Panda and had to stay in the "time-out" corner."



"Forgive me Father, for I have sinned"



"Wow, that was the best joke that I have ever heard!"



Panda Tai Chi



" I'm just contemplating life."

Cool Bridges

Pedestrian Bridge, Texas
This beautiful arched bridge in Lake Austin was a private build by Miro Rivera Architects and is used to connect the client's main house to the smaller guest house on the other side of the water. The idea was to make the bridge seem as natural as possible within its surroundings and to do this they made the decking and reed-like hand rails as imperfect as possible. The result is a bridge that looks extremely fragile but definitely worth the risk.



Octavio Frias de Oliveira Bridge, São Paulo, Brazil
Opened in May of this year, the Octavio Frias de Oliveira Bridge is a stunning x-shaped cable-stayed bridge that crosses the Pinheiros River in Sao Paulo . It's design is unique in that the 2 curved decks of the bridge cross each other through its x-shaped supporting tower, an illuminated structure that stands 450 ft tall and has attached to it 144 steel cables.



Kintaikyo, Iwakuni , Japan
The original Kintai Bridge was built in 1673 and didn't stand very long until it was damaged due to flooding. It was then rebuilt and survived for more than 200 years until a typhoon battered it to death in 1950. The bridge that stands now over the Nishiki River is the 3rd build and looks magnificent, it's 5 wooden arches displaying an incredible amount of detail and craftmanship. Interesting fact: no nails or bolts have been used to build the arches, only clamps and wires.



Juscelino Kubitschek Bridge , Brasilia , Brazil
The JK Bridge in Brasilia is a lesson in elegant bridge design. The 3 huge arches diagonally hopping over the deck of the bridge give the structure an amazing visual fluidity and make the whole 1.2 km bridge look effortlessly cool. Since being built the bridge has won awards for its design but is still massively underappreciated on a wider scale.



Rolling Bridge, London , UK
Thomas heatherwick's award-winning rolling bridge is an ingenious addition to the grand union canal system in London and is unique in its design. Unlike regular movable canal bridges, the rolling bridge curls up on itself to form an octagon by way of hydraulics. It's an amazing sight and a reminder that a fresh perspective can produce great, innovative results, even when dealing with a structure as common as a bridge.



Beipanjiang River Railroad Bridge , Guizhou , China
Beipanjiang River Railroad Bridge in Guizhou is an enormous railway bridge that was built as part of the much larger 'Guizhou-Shuibai Railway Project'. Connecting 2 mountains over a deep ravine, at its highest point the bridge's deck sits 918 ft above the ground (to compare, at its highest point the Millau viaduct's deck clears the river underneath by 890 ft). The bridge has succeeded in connecting 2 of the country's poorest areas.



Pont Gustave Flaubert, Rouen , France
This is the incredible, brand new vertical lift bridge in Rouen, France, a beast of a structure whose 2 bridge spans weigh 1,200 tons each but can be hoisted 180 ft vertically by the bridge's lifting mechanism in an impressive 12 minutes. Just the angular structures at the top of each tower weigh in at 450 tons each, helping to support the lifting system as cruise ships sail through.



Hegigio Gorge Pipeline Bridge , Southern Highlands Province , Papua New Guinea
Technically, this is a bridge: it's a structure which spans a gorge. The only difference is, the bridge can't be used by humans due to the fact that its purpose is to support 2 pipelines - 1 gas, 1 oil - across the extremely high gap in Papua New Guinea . So high in fact that if this were to be officially recognised as a bridge it would rocket to the top of the 'world's highest bridge-span' list at an impressive height of 1,290 ft. By comparison, the current highest bridge span belongs to the Royal Gorge Bridge in Colorado , hanging a mere 1,053 ft above ground level, while Manhattan 's Chrysler Building measures 1,047 ft.

What A Wonderful World