ABOUT AS SCARY AS A BRIDGE GETS

AN INCREDIBLY COOL DESIGN FOR GATES

SCARIEST COASTER EVER?

I WANT ONE!

AWESOME ARCHITECTURE - CRESCENT MOON TOWER, DUBAI

Dubai has some of the coolest modern architecture and among them is the Crescent Moon Tower. Photo is from the Discover Earth Facebook page.

THE BLUE MOSQUE AT NIGHT

Certainly a little photoshop work here but nevertheless an awesome photo of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul Turkey. Photo is by Ramy Alaa and can be found on the Dreamworld Facebook page.

WHERE PHONE BOOTHS GO TO DIE?

The phone booth is a less and less common artefact of the pre smart phone world but where do they go to die? According to the website worldgeography.com in the UK they go to a phone booth graveyard located between Ripon and Thirsk, near the village of Carlton Miniott.

NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL A BACK YARD!

I guess if someone really twisted my arm I could put up with this for my back yard! Taken on MyKonos Island, Greece from the Facebook Page Amazing World.

THE WINDOW THAT MORPHS INTO A BALCONY

No idea if this would work out cheaper to build than a conventional balcony and it seems to me that it has a disadvantage over a conventional balcony in that there is no door and the apartment is "open" to the elements when it is used as balcony. So in the heat of summer you are letting hot air in and in the winter cold. All of that said it does look like a rather awesome piece of tech/architecture.

BUILD A HOME IN JUST 3 DAYS - GREEN MAGIC HOMES

Cool Green Magic Homes that can be built in just 3 days. They remind me of Futuro in the sense that they use prefabricated sections that can be assembled easily and quickly with limited tools and personnel.

CENTRAL PARK - CRUISE SHIP STYLE

You could easily be forgiven for thinking this is a photo of a rather cool land based outdoor atrium, perhaps associated with a large hotel, a mall or other complex.

In fact it is actually one of the "neighborhoods" on board the Royal Carribean cruise ship Oasis Of The Seas taken during a 2015 cruise. Sometimes technology has its issues and perhaps progress is not always for the good but I have to say that in this case that is not so; the Oasis is simply an awe inspiring technological, design and construction marvel.

SO YOU THINK YOU HAVE A HEAD FOR HEIGHTS?

I am no daredevil for sure but I thought I had a reasonable "head for heights" until I saw this. Crazy, daredevil, plain stupid? Make up your own mind!

SO YOU WANT TO GET AWAY FROM IT ALL?

Most of us from time to time get the urge to spend a little time "away from it all". The island of Elliðaey, located in the archipelago of Vestmannaeyjar to the south of Iceland looks like it would provide the perfect spot for that "hermit" experience.

According to travel.spotcoolstuff.com the island was inhabited by five families some 300 years ago but, over the next two centuries, life on the island became more and more impractical and the last permanent residents of the island left in the 1930's.

Move forward to 1953 and the Elliðaey Hunting Association built a lodge on the island for its members to use.

Unfortunately that weekend getaway is probably not actually going to happen for most of us because unless you are a member of the Elliðaey Hunting Association or are friends with some one who is [and we all are - right?] you can't stay in the lodge though for those intrepid enough it is possible to visit the island on a boat tour from the main island of Heimaey.

So, for the perfect secluded getaway or at least the dream of the perfect secluded getaway, check out these photos. The first, by Chris Zielecki, gives an idea of just how secluded Elliðaey actually is [Chris' original photo is on Flickr], the second by Diego Delso [CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37347785] provides a stunning panoramic view of the island and the third is an edited version of Diego's photo that provides a closer look at the area around the hunting lodge.