| Phantom City of Pripyat: Chernobyl's Alienation Zone [PICS] | Prypiat is an abandoned city in the Zone of alienation in northern Ukraine, Kiev Oblast, near the border with Belarus. It was home to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers. The city was abandoned in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster. |
| Aerial View of the Salt Ponds of San Francisco (PIC) | The vivid colors are from brine shrimp, algae, and other stuff growing in the ponds. |
| Will We Drive On Underground Automated Highways? | Need to travel cross-country to visit your parents? You would simply drive down into the nearest UAH entrance and let your specialized vehicle's automated guidance system sync up with the highway system. You'd turn the controls over to the vehicle, which would allow you to sleep, work or play for the remainder of the drive. |
| The Largest Compass Rose on Earth [PICS] | The compass has been painted on the bed of an enormous dry lake next to the research centre and measures a whopping 1.21km in diameter. according to wikipedia, ?it is inclined to magnetic north (around 13 degrees east of true north) and is used by pilots for calibrating heading indicators?. |
| Action Park: The Most Dangerous Park in America (1978 - 96) | Action Park was waterpark/motor themed park open from 1978 to 1996 in Vernon Township, New Jersey. Its popularity came with a reputation for poorly-designed, unsafe rides; inattentive, underaged, underpaid and under-the-influence employees; equally intoxicated and underprepared visitors ? and a poor safety record that resulted in 6 deaths. |
