A ’blue marble’ covered in swathes of indigo, green, and gold, our precious planet is filled with amazing landscapes. Formed by the forces of nature, Earth’s unique environment includes rainforests so dense they can only be seen from above, sandy desert oases that have fostered the world’s oldest civilisations, and gorgeous water features that look as if they were designed by an artist. For many travellers, the natural world easily beats

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Discusses examples of mankinds' attempt to explain mysteries of life through creating monuments.

Text and photographs examine various aspects of these natural wonders including their formations, rocks, weather, plant and animals life, and their future.

Discusses the history, design, and construction of New York City's Empire State Building.

Discusses what quicksand is, how it is formed, its dangers, and how to avert disasters.

An overview of South America's Amazon River, which is approximately 4000 miles long.

Discusses the Great Barrier Reef, where it is located, and life on the Reef.

Investigate the incredible phenomenon of crop circles.

Oscar Wilde compared it to a white goddess, Evelyn Waugh to Stilton cheese. In observers from Lord Byron to Sigmund Freud to Virginia Woolf it met with astonishment, rapture, poetry, even tears-and, always, recognition. Twenty-five hundred years after it first rose above Athens, the Parthenon remains one of the wonders of the world, its beginnings and strange turns of fortune over millennia a perpetual source of curiosity, controversy, and intrigue. At...