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

Because I’m covering all the hard-hitting news today (and every day — the Pulitzer prize committee should just hire me to give prizes to myself), this is a video of a dog head that turns into a cat. Crazy — one second it’s a dog’s head, and the next it’s

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 video of Youtuber Glen Makes modding a $30 Millennium Falcon model into a very impressive levitating version that appears to be hovering over the sand dunes of a faraway planet. The video quickly walks us through the steps Glen took to make it, which, from the best

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 video from outside the Little Millers ice cream shack in Wasilla, Alaska of a heavily modified truck with no bed. Without any further information you might guess it was customized just for the sake of creating an unusual truck, but it’s not. It’s actually a float truck

Height: it’s my middle name (well, Hite anyways). But despite it, I’m still terrified of them, so China’s ‘Flying Kiss’ attraction in the Wulong Baima mountains near Chongqing is probably not for me. But maybe it’s for you. FaceTime me from the top so I can live vicariously through your