Located in the Hotel Millepini near Venice, Italy, Y-40 is the world's deepest swimming pool at 131 feet to the bottom. ...

It was one of the viral stories of the week: in 2018, daring members of society will be allowed to sail halfway around the world on a cruise ship named Titanic if they choose to tempt fate. But don't save up for the trip just yet. There's not much proof at this point that Titanic II will actually come to fruition. Back in the second week of 2015, a Belfast Telegraph proclaimed the unbelievable, saying, "." At the time, a...

In this Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016 photo, a worker collects plastic bottles among piles of broken glass, later to be recycled at the Phoenicia Glass Works Ltd. factory in the southern Israeli town of Yeruham. Phoenicia Glass Works Ltd., Israel’s only glass container factory, produces one million containers a day. Some 300,000 bottles a day come out with defects, and the factory grinds them into shards and piles them in a desert lot to be melted into new bottles. The...

Dr. Stephen Fabes started his journey at St. Thomas' Hospital in London, where he worked as a doctor. By the time he's done, he'll have cycled the length of six of the Earth's continents and raised more than 20,000 pounds for a medical organization. (Stephen Fabes/cyclingthe6.com) Dr. Stephen Fabes set out six years ago with little more than a bike and a few basic supplies. He left his job at St. Thomas' Hospital in London, where he was a doctor,...

25. Praia de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Cape Verde Praia de Santa Maria in Cape Verde ranked in 25th place on TripAdvisor's Traveler's Choice ranking for world's best beaches. (TripAdvisor) , the travel planning and booking site, announced the winners of its on Wednesday, and Grace Bay in Turks and Caicos came in first place in their world rankings. Located on the north shore of Providenciales in Turks and Caicos, Grace Bay was praised by one reviewer in the TripAdvisor...

Every year, the Utah-based company Ice Castles creates winter wonderlands by "growing" more than 5,000 icicles, which are then sculpted into beautiful structures open to the public. Each castle is made up of more than 20,000,000 pounds of ice, sculpted into tunnels, towers, archways, caves and caverns. This year, the company has built ice castles in Utah, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Canada. (Callie Chinen) Every year, Brent Christensen, the founder of , creates breathtaking ice castles across North America. This...

Photographer Mark Mervai spent five years capturing a series of sunrises and sunsets in Budapest, Hungary. (Mark Mervai) For photographer Mark Mervai, every sunrise and sunset is different. “I have seen a lot and [have] never seen two looking the same,” he told weather.com For the past five years, Mervai has traveled around Budapest capturing spectacular moments of dusk and dawn in the Hungarian capital. Though we encounter sunrises and sunsets every day, they’re not the easiest subjects to photograph,...

Photographer Hallgrimur P. Helgason captured this stunning image of the Northern Lights resembling a giant phoenix. (Caters News Agency) For many, simply witnessing the Northern Lights can be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. PhotographerHallgrimur P. Helgason has had that pleasure several times, but perhaps no other time has measured up to this recent photo shoot. "It’s really a thrill shooting the aurora, especially when they are so playful like they were that night," Helgason told . After photographing for about an hour,...

Dotted with some of the world's wackiest architecture, China's skyline will now officially feature less "bizarre" buildings. In a new push for "economic, green and beautiful" architecture, China's State Council released that willprohibit the construction of "bizarre" and "odd-shaped" buildings that are devoid of character or cultural heritage. The blueprint for the development of China's new cities, which was released on Sunday, bans bizarre architecture that is "not economical, functional, aesthetically pleasing or environmentally friendly" while construction techniques that generate...

Iceland's most popular attraction - the Blue Lagoon - is a geothermal spa located in the middle of a lava field just outside of Reykjavic and visitors who visit swear by the therapeutic benefits of its mineral-rich waters. Meteorologist Kati Parker has the story. ...

An architectural model view of the Motiongate movie theatre at the Dubai Parks and Resorts complex is displayed in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday, March 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili) You've never seen anything like the new theme park Dubai is planning. Dubai Parks and Resorts will six theme parks in one massive, sprawling stretch of land spanning 25 million square feet. At a price tag of about $2.8 billion, it promises to make the United Arab Emirates a must-visit...

Today is World Wildlife Day, which the designated as a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the planet's wild animals and their conservation. In honor of this special day, here are some some of the best destinations, from huge wildlife reserves to small sanctuaries rehabilitating wounded or displaced wildlife, that offer unique and unforgettable opportunities to see some of the world's most amazing creatures outside of a zoo. (MORE:) One animal that is worth seeing in the wild is...

A view of the mountains near Adrar, Mauritania in the Sahara Desert. (Michał Huniewicz) Polish photographer , 31, has been traveling the world for the last seven years with the goal of visiting and photographing some of the most interesting - and remote - places on earth. And while on a trip through Mauritania in West Africa, Huniewicz discovered the ancient stone city of Chinguetti, a remote destination home to to one of the world’s most impressive collections of ancient...