The Sterling Hill Mining Museum in New Jersey, United States, is known for its variety of immersive and educational exhibits, but is best known for its massive collection of fluorescent minerals. Continue reading
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The Japanese Museum of Rocks That Look Like Faces
In Chichibu, Japan, two hours northwest of Tokyo, there’s an odd museum; perhaps the only one of its kind. It’s called the Chinsekikan (which means hall of curious rocks) and it houses over 1700 rocks that resemble human faces. Continue reading
Assembled Figurines Appear to Burst With The Seasons
Assemblage artist Garret Kane just unveiled this new series of figurative sculptures depicting fractured individuals who appear to merge with the seasons. Continue reading
Boulder Field of Hickory Run State Park
Hickory Run State Park, located in northern Carbon County, on the Pocono Plateau of northeastern Pennsylvania, is home to one of the most striking geological feature in the state. It’s a huge bed of rocks measuring approximately 400 feet by 1,800 feet and at least 12 feet deep Continue reading
Stromatolites of Hamelin Pool
What appear to be rocks submerged in the hyper-saline water of Hamelin Pool at the base of Shark Bay in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia, are not quite rocks. They are living things called stromatolites, created by tiny, single-celled microbes called cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), which are some of the earliest forms of life on earth. Continue reading
Gallery Of Precious Stones
The Gallery of Precious Stones is an exhibition of rocks galore. An exhibition of stones displaying earthly things that have been admired since the dawn of man, and continue to fascinate with their colors, formations and sudden surprises within. Continue reading
World’s Longest Tunnel to Open in Switzerland
World’s longest and deepest Gotthard Base Tunnel, in southern Switzerland, after 17 years, is set to open on June 1.
Gotthard Base Tunnel, a 35.5 miles railway tunnel through the Alps in Switzerland, cost $12 billion and displaces 31 million tons rock. Continue reading