Archive for the ‘Places’ Category
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Cueva de los Cristales
This is not a film set. This is a real cave situated 300 metres below the Chihuahuan desert in Naica, Mexico. And it is truly filled with giant crystals, such as should only really be found … View article
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Amazing one second films
Ok, so they don’t last one second, in fact a lot longer. But these are collections of one second clips are cropping up all over cyberspace, and seem to be the new way of showing people where you are and … View article
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Bajau Laut – sea gypsies
The Bajau Laut people of the south-western Philippines and Indonesia live their entire lives on the sea. Known as “sea gypsies” or “sea nomads”, they inhabit amazing villages built on stilts in the middle of the ocean.
Many Bajau people … View article
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Miniature world
Travelling to amazing places is great, but why do they all have to be so far away? Friends, don’t worry about answering that question, because there is no need: some people in Hamburg have created a working model of (nearly) the entire world, known as Miniatur Wunderland. This new version of the world covers an easily navigable area of just 1,300 square metres, and what’s more it is all amazing. You will just have to go to Hamburg… View article
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El Caminito del Rey trail
Imagine crossing this path to get to work every day. This is El Caminito del Rey, the world’s most dangerous path. It was built in 1905 for workers to pass between two hydroelectric plants and Chorro Falls and Gaitanejo Falls … View article
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Centralia
America’s PA route 61 runs eighty one miles from Reading to Smamokin Dam. It passes through a small town called Ashland where the northbound traffic branches of onto a small detour. If you were to ignore the detour and head … View article
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Vogalonga – Amazing race 1
At Amazing Stuff, we like a good race, so we have decided to compile a selection of the world’s most amazing races. First into the Hall of Fame is the Vogalonga.
The British love a good river race. Henley Regatta, … View article
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Djemaa El Fna, Marrakech
As the world becomes more populated, time becomes more precious, and communications more virtual, the phenomenon of human interaction is in decline. Places which less than a hundred years ago would have been the hubs of communities, the centre of … View article
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First all-aerial movie
If you’re acquainted with Yann Arthus-Bertrand‘s amazing ‘Earth from Above’ photography series, you’ll be pleased to learn that he’s now made an amazing movie: Home.
Home is a film about the Earth, its beauty and how (as you … View article
