Titan bases contain over 2,500 feet of underground passages, built to withstand a nuclear attack as close as 3,000 feet away (photo copyright Jon Haeber).
Over 1/2-mile of underground passageways; three 150-foot-deep launch silos; PCBs, lead paint, zinc, cadmium, mercury — it’s a toxic soup, stagnant for over 40 years.
Photo courtesy SiloWorld.com
In 1962, these gigantic […]
The 144-foot tall 13-story “log cabin” built by a Russian gangster draws the ire of its neighbors and the awe of geographers. This puppy is half as big as Big Ben! (from the UK Telegraph)
Arkhangelsk, Russia — It’s 1992. Windows 3.1 ships out to stores nationwide. A meteor hits a family’s car and demolishes […]
The Kualoa sugar cane refinery in Oahu began operation in 1863 by Charles H. Judd and Samuel G. Wilder. It met with little success and closed thirty years later.
What does bird guano and sugarcane have in common? Well, historical geography often has strange bedfellows. The photo above is the Kualoa Sugar Mill, an enterprise […]
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