After its defeat in the Crimean War (1853-1856), the victorious powers forbade Russia from operating battleships on the Black Sea. Once these restrictions ended, Russia rebuilt its Black Sea fleet with modern warships th...

(Photo: US Navy)It’s not unusual for warshi...  ...aunched in January of 1865.(Photo: A Photographic History of the American Civil War, 1911)The ship had a su...

(Map: Google)Geldrop is a town in the southern part of the Netherlands. One of the neighborhoods in that town is named for characters in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings books.I don't see a Sauron Street. If there...

(Photo: Bob Embleton)Sea stacks are large rocks in bodies of water that have resisted the forces of erosion which have destroyed the land which connects them to the shore. This one is Dun Briste, which is located off Dow...

Mount Nyiragongo is an active volcano in the Democ...  ...ratovolcano, which Elsevier’s Dictionary of Geography defines as “a volcanic core of bedded struc...

(Photo: Torpe)A flysch is a sedimentary rock formation consisting of mostly sandstones and marls near the sea and adjacent to mountains. There’s a particularly lovely one near the town of Zumaia on the northern coa...

(Photo: Shantavira)This isn’t a road or a sculpture, but a naturally occurring rock formation on the Australian island of Tasmania. It’s called the Tessellated Pavement of Eaglehawk Neck. It consists of slabs...

(Photo: Mickaël T)(Photo: Julen)(Photo: Julen)Fadiouth is an artificial island off the coast of Senegal. It’s made almost entirely of clam shells. People living in the area built it over generations of clam ha...

(Image: NOAA)Even before there was a United States...  ...rtle in 1775. It was the first submarine in naval history to see combat.(Image: Library of Congress)Bushnel...

(New Orleans moonlight tower, c. 1882)Before the United States became widely electrified, it was not practical to build individual street lights in many cities. That’s why some cities built “moonlight towers,...