This is a beautiful flyover of ancient Rome as it was around 4AD, digitally reconstructed in 3D by the folks at History In 3D. The eight-minute video represents about 40% of Rome, and the team hopes to reconstruct the rest in the future. Some more info about the video and

This is a nighttime fly-through of Duisburg, Germany’s ‘roller coaster staircase’ as captured by drone pilot Tony Catapano (aka Tonnoz). The staircase is actually an interactive art installation created by artists Ulrich Genth and Heike Mutter and consists of a 220-meter (~722-feet) circuit with 249 steps. Oh, and it’s actually

This is a video of Red Bull extreme athletes Fred Fugen, Vincent Cotte, and Mike Swanson performing wingsuit fly-bys of the Pyramid of Khafre in Giza. Stunning. You know, I hope I have the opportunity to visit the great pyramids one day. And I also hope I’m the first to

This is a video of a dam gate being opened after years of remaining closed. The amount of mud and silt that gets pushed through before the water really starts flowing — my goodness! Reminds me of all the extruding I used to do with my Play-Doh Fun Factory as

This is a beautiful and well-edited timelapse video captured by amateur astronomer and Youtuber k2qogir featuring the James Webb Space Telescope passing in front of Alnilam, the middle and brightest star in Orion’s Belt, part of a nebula some 2,000 light years away. In k2gogir’s own words while I pound

This is a video demonstration and explanation of Matt Pritchard’s ‘The Phantom Queen’, the winner of 2021’s Best Illusion Of The Year Contest. In the illusion, a queen chess piece is visible in the mirror of a chess board, but not on the chess board. How does it work? SPOILER:

This is a full concert video from 1989 of Nirvana opening for fellow Washington-based grunge rock band Tad at Fahrenheit in Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. This was after the release of Nirvana’s first studio album Bleach, but obviously prior to the band’s 1991 Nevermind and subsequent mainstream success. It also features Chad

This is a video of science experimenter and TikTok user Joemyheck using a massive lens to focus the sun’s energy on a tiny pinpoint on a rock, harnessing so much power it’s able to spawl, fracture, and melt the rock, eventually cracking it in half, forming a crack rock. Wow!