Unfinished Church - Bermuda, St. George Some of the most beautiful buildings in the world take decades or even centuries to build, but sometimes the years stretch on and the buildings are never completed, leaving them vulnerable to the elements. The weather can quickly take a toll on buildings that have been left incomplete and uninhabited. "Rainfall entering the building can cause extensive water damage," said Weather.com meteorologist Christopher Dolce. "Freeze and thaw cycles may lead to the decay of...

Aerial view of the Caribbean Sea, 2012. (Jakob Wagner) German photographer Jakob Wagner’s series of aerials over the Mediterranean and the Caribbean Seas show breathtakingly clear views of clouds from above, despite the fact that they were captured from inside passenger planes. “In common airlines the conditions are unpredictable,” Wagner explained to Weather.com. “The windows might have little scratches or they are just too dirty from the outside to allow for good photos.” In addition to the plane’s windows, Wagner...

The Chinese city of Qingdao made the news when its beaches turned green afterspectacular amounts of algae bloomed in its coastal waters, covering 28,900 square kilometers (11,158 square miles) and driving swimmers away with the smell. On the other end of the color spectrum, at Red Beach in Panjin (about 300 miles northeast of Beijing), a unique variety of alkali-tolerant seaweed will turn from green to a vibrant crimson red in the fall, to the delight of tourists who flock...

Ten years after a tornado felled 11 of its 20 bridge towers, the historicKinzua Bridge in McKean County, Pa., once considered an "Eighth Wonder of the World," is now a reinvented tourist attraction. Its ruins lure visitors by the thousands, and serve as a reminder of man's engineering feats and how Mother Nature can take them down. Originally built in 1882, the Kinzua Bridge once held the record for tallest railroad bridge in the world. It was rebuilt in 1900...

It's an adrenaline-junkie's perfect hiking trail: a crumbling 3-foot-wide path hangs 300 feet above a rocky gorge and has been slowly falling apart for the last 100 years. El Caminito del Rey, known as the most dangerous trail in the world, is a path in Malaga, Spain that was built in 1905. Originally meant to connect two hydroelectric power plants, the path follows the walls of El Chorro Gorge and has no handrails, according to Atlas Obscura. It's been a...

Wild ponies are herded into the Assateague Channel during a rain storm for their annual swim from Assateague Island to Chincoteague on July 24, 2013, in Chincoteague, Va. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) More than 100 ponies braved thunder and lightning to make the annual swim across the Assateague Channel in Virginia this week, thrilling huge crowds who came from near and far to see the wild ponies. The 88th Pony Swim was nearly derailed by the combination of a high tide,...

Officials investigate a United Express passenger plane that landed safely at Newark Liberty International Airpor after taking off from the airport after reporting smoke in the cockpit. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) NEWARK, N.J. — A passenger plane has landed safely at Newark International Airport in New Jersey after the crew detected the smell of smoke in the cockpit. (MORE: ) Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Steve Coleman says United Express Flight 4890 was headed for Pittsburgh. The...

In this photo provided by Jared Rosenstein, a Southwest Airlines plane whose nose gear collapsed as it touched down on the runway is surrounded by emergency vehicles at LaGuardia Airport in New York. (AP Photo/Jared Rosenstein) NEW YORK — A Southwest Airlines jet that made a hard landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport touched down on its front nose wheel before the sturdier main landing gear in back touched down, federal investigators said Thursday. The nose-pointed-down landing described by investigators...

Honeybees form swarms when they're looking for a new home. (Thinkstock/John Foxx) A soccer ball-sized swarm of honeybees descended upon the Charlotte airport in North Carolina on Thursday, causing a delay of more than two hours while passengers sweated in the hot plane and waited for the winged insects to be lured away. The bee swarm, which included a queen, was searching for a new place to build a hive on the tug at the front of the plane, said...

Summer is the season for growing and harvesting, when a number of vibrantly colored flowers bloom across acres and acres of farmland. Among some of the most beautiful of the crops are lavender, canola, poppies and cotton. Farms filled with these plants are dazzling when seen from high above or from on the ground, and they attract tourists interested in agriculture, regional economics, and health. Although poppies are most infamous for being the plant from which opium is derived, the...

Some of the best views of a city can be seen from above -- an impressive skyline lit at night, buildings engulfed in dramatic fog, or majestic monuments set against a mountainous landscape. Aerial views offer a unique perspective of a city, and highlight its natural features, such as parks, rivers or canals, as well as its architecture and other man-made wonders. Aerial photographs, however, are some of the most tricky to successfully shoot and aerial photographers need to depend...

(Chris Hondros/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — Top U.S. officials met Saturday to review the threat of a terrorist attack that led to the weekend closure of 21 U.S. embassies and consulates in the Muslim world and a global travel warning to Americans. President Barack Obama was briefed following the session, the White House said. Obama's national security adviser, Susan Rice, led the meeting and then joined Lisa Monaco, Obama's assistant for homeland security and counter-terrorism, in briefing the president, the White...