Lightning lit shelf cloud in Salado, Texas. (Jason Weingart/Barcroft Media) Storm chaser Jason Weingart, 34, has captured everything from eye-blinding lightning bolts to heart-stopping tornadoes, but he has never considered settling down for the quiet life. “There’s never really been a time when I’ve considered giving it up,” he said. “It’s what I really love to do, I’m very happy doing it and I’m starting to get really good at it.” Chasing after this passion, however, can sometimes lead him...

Amateur Danish photographer Michael Rasmussen has taken his hobby of 20 years to new heights with a drone, producing stunning aerials of forests in Denmark. (Michael Rasmussen/Caters News) After 20 years of “normal” photography, amateur photographer and car parts salesman Michael Rasmussen decided to take his passion to new heights—using a drone. “The world looks so different from a drone’s point of view, so I was pleasantly surprised when I first was able to photograph from that unique perspective,” Rasmussen...

Wingsuit athletes Joakim Sommer, Armando del Rey, Marco Waltenspiel and Georg Lattner paid tribute to the Perseid meteor shower by flying across the skies over La Palma, Canary Islands, wearing LED wingsuits and "joining" the meteor shower on August 10, 2016. (Daniel Lopez / Red Bull Content Pool) As stargazers turn to the skies to catch a glimspe of this year's , which is expected to be the most spectacular in 20 years, wingsuit athletes actually "joined" the meteor shower...

View of the abandoned Grand Orient Express train in Belgium. Abandoned seven years ago, the once-luxurious train is crumbling in decay. (IMP Features/Brian Romeijn) The golden age of train travel was a time when the journey didn’t take a backseat to the destination, when travelers watched changing landscapes fly by their windows, while enjoying luxurious amenities. Created in 1883, the Orient Express train ran between Paris and Istanbul (new routes were later developed) and was synonymous with luxury travel—and mystery....

A site in Bangkok, Thailand serves as an airplane graveyard for jetliners formerly operated by Orient Thai Airlines, and has become an unconventional tourist attraction. (Dax Ward/Barcroft Images) In Bangkok, Thailand, a site where two abandoned airplanes have been left to rot, has become an unusual tourist attraction. The airplane graveyard is home to MD-82 jetliners that were formerly operated by Orient Thai Airlines but now left to decay in the elements. The airplanes are now covered in rust and...

As a cultural cleaning expert with nearly 25 years experience, Thorsten Mowes has been commissioned to make wonders all over the world shine like new - from the London Eye to Christ the Redeemer. (Caters News) Many of us want to preserve our cultural legacy, but there’s one man who does it literally. With 25 years of experience, Thorsten Mowes has spent his entire career cleaning and preserving the world’s most famous monuments—perhaps more than anyone else on the planet.He’s...

A pet dog jumps into pool on August 16, 2016 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province of China. As the hot weather continues in Southwest China's Chengdu City, the newly opened pet pool has attracted pet owners, who are allowed to swim with their pets. Rates for using the pool depend on breed, weight and the length of the pet's hair. (Wu Xiaochuan/West China Metropolis Daily/VCG/VCG via Getty Images) As hot weather continues to engulf the city of Chengdu in China's Sichuan...

Daredevil surfers have made headlines or paddling out in, but Alison Teal takes extreme surfing to a new level, becoming the first woman to hot-surf around an erupting volcano. Teal, 30, rode her pink surfboard up to Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii as it erupted into the ocean for the first time since 2011, and photographer Perrin James was there to document the extreme surf session. "This was a lifelong dream," Teal, who has been called the "Female Indiana Jones," said...

Mount Nyiragongo is an active volcano located in Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Klaus Thymann) As viewers we see the end product of a photograph, the frame that freezes a moment in time. However, we need to remember that there was a process and a journey in the creation of the image.“It’s the whole journey that’s interesting,” photographer told weather.com. “I think my approach to photography always originates from a storytelling perspective.”Thymann is an award-winning photographer and storyteller who recently...

A breathtaking photograph captures the moment a rainbow appears out of a waterfall in Karnataka, India. (Tapas Chattopadhyay/ Caters News) A thundering waterfall crashing several hundred feet down to Earth is an impressive sight on its own, but add a rainbow into the mix and the watery wonder is elevated to awe-inspiring (and Instagram-worthy) status. Civil engineer Tapas Chattopadhyay was at the right place at the right time and captured that spectacular moment a rainbow emerged out of a waterfall...

At a Glance The world's longest and highest-bottomed glass bridge opened in Hunan Province, China, on Saturday.The bridge is located at Zhangjiajie Mountains, the UNESCO World Heritage site that inspired the Hallelujah Mountains depicted in "Avatar". If you suffer from vertigo, this might not be the destination for you. For others, the world's longest and highest glass-bottomed bridge that opened in China's "Avatar" mountains this weekend is one that must not be missed. The bridge, which opened to the public...

Ecuador. (Lisa Kristine) Curiosity may have killed the cat, but photographer Lisa Kristine trusts hers to keep her moving. “I am very curious and very trusting of my curiosity,” she told weather.com. “I feel like things culminate from that.” Her curiosity has served her well, even as a child when she would browse her mother’s bookshelf of anthropology books. “I would go to this bookshelf full of these big books and look at these people who looked like the earth,”...

A mini-van sits with a severely cracked windshield after a two-car crash. (Photo by Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images) It's hard to imagine life in the United States without our trusty automobile. We use cars daily to commute to work and school, run errands and visit friends and family. Driving is one of the, but it can also be one of the deadliest. According to Newsweek, 36,300 people lost their lives in automobile wrecks in 2015 and another 4.4...