Man digging to find Megapode birds eggs in Tavurvur Volcano sands, Rabaul, New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea. (Eric Lafforgue/Caters News) From the ashes of three simultaneous volcanic eruptions, a community of survivors has risen to forage in the cinders for a new life. These haunting portraits by Eric Lafforgue, a French photographer, document a city, its residents and the danger of living in the shadow of still-active volcanoes. The volcanoes Tavurvur, Vulcan and Rabalankaia wreaked havoc on Rabaul, Papua...

'Escape,' 2012/2013. (Danila Tkachenko) Many people have the desire to find solitude, flee society and become one with nature. In his photo series and book, entitled “Escape,” Russian photographer Danila Tkachenko captured portraits of individuals who did just that. Tkachenko’s photos show men, living in the homes they have created for themselves in the forests of Russia and Ukraine. Instead of calling these men hermits or dropouts from society, Tkachenko calls them “Escapers.” (MORE:Extraordinary Lives of People Living Under Active...

On the Uruguay River, which runs along the border between Argentina and Brazil, there is a very unique waterfall: the Moconá Falls (also known as the Yucumã Falls). Unlike most waterfalls, Moconá Falls runs parallel, rather than perpendicular, to its river for a three-kilometer stretch, giving the river a two-tiered appearance. Water spills over the elevated side of the riverbed into a gorge below, creating two streams that run parallel at different elevations. According to Wondermondo.com, the name Moconá means...

The Hornocal mountains in Argentina. (Kevin Zaouali/Caters News) Are these colorful landscapes photos or paintings? It’s hard to tell, but they are in fact images photographer Kevin Zaouali captured of the Hornocal Mountains in northern Argentina, near the Bolivian border. “The mountains are magical places,” Zaouali told Caters News. “They are a range of wonderful colors and sometimes don’t look real.” Zaouali, who is from the Jujuy province of Argentina and studies biology, says the light in the mountains helps...

A photo from the 'By the Silent Line' series of La Petite Ceinture, an old Parisian railway. (Pierre Folk) Chemin de fer de Petite Ceinture(French for "little belt railway") was a Parisian railway that pre-dated Paris’ Metro and connected the City of Light’s five main lines. Today, the railway, which stopped serving commuters in 1934, sits derelict and overrun with various flora and fauna. Photographer Pierre Folk captured eerie images of old train route for his photo series entitled, “By...

Talk about some cool wedding photos! One couple decided to ditch the traditional photos inside a church or along a beach, and instead head to Alaska's Knik Glacier. (MORE: Huge Fish Surprises Everyone on the Beach) The stunning photos remind of us a few other incredible weather moments in matrimony, including when a tornado turned into the backdrop for this couple's big day in Toronto. You have to agree the images are breathtaking, and weather.com digital meteorologist Ari Sarsarlari has...

Passengers aboard a harrowing transatlantic flight from Madrid to Buenos Aires might be kissing the ground this week. On September 9th, an AirEuropa Airbus A330 flying into Argentina’s Ezeiza Airport encountered a serious hailstorm in the last 20 minutes of a 12-hour flight, theblaze.com reports. "Ahead of a strong cold front front, a band of thunderstorms erupted across extreme northeast Argentina, Uruguay, and the adjacent South Atlantic waters up to about 100 miles east-southeast of Buenos Aires on the morning...

The White Desert, Egypt Unusual islands of chalk shine as the sun rises in the Egyptian White Desert on September 2, 2007. The desert is known for its unusual wind-eroded rock formations in the Farafra Depression, 400 kilometers southwest of Cairo. (Cris Bouroncle/AFP/Getty Images) Stark and mysterious, deserts cover approximately one-third of the Earth's land surface, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. And while most of these vast, dry areas of sand and rocks are beautiful, a number of them...

Deep in the heart of Turkey, in the semi-arid, historical region of Cappadocia, the landscape has a lunar-like appearance with rocky peaks, standing pillars, chimneys and cones. These otherworldly formations are created from sedimentary rock eroded by rain and wind into unique and beautiful shapes, reports Scribol. (MORE: 10 Desolate Ghost Towns) Starting in the fourth century A.D., local people also began to carve into the rocks, creating a series of cave-like houses, churches, monasteries, known as the fairy chimneys...

It’s every traveler'sworst nightmare: Imagine, mid-flight, hearing a thundering boom and being choked by thick smoke as flight attendants warn you to brace for impact. Passengers aboard a JetBlue flight are thankful to be alive after a harrowing experience on Thursday when a flight that took off from Long Beach Airport in California blew one of two enginesjust 15 minutes after takeoff, USA Today reports. Flight 1416, which was destined for Austin, Texas, had just taken off when trouble began...

Pinnacle Adventures, an adventure travel group, says its mission is to live life on the edge. As weather.com’s Kyla Grogan points out, they sure deliver in video John Nygren posted to his Facebook page. The video shows him swimming incredibly close to a crocodile at Banco Chinchorro, a protected marine reserve off the coast of Mexico near Belize. (MORE: Largest Gator Found in Mississippi) Most people probably wouldn’t get this close, but it does look like a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. MORE...

Church, Pennsylvania. Photographers Daniel Barter and Daniel Marbaix captured stunning images of abandoned buildings left to the elements for decades. (Courtesy of Daniel Barter and Daniel Marbaix) Photographers Daniel Barter and Daniel Marbaix captured stunning images of abandoned buildings left to the elements in America's once booming Rust Belt while taking a tour of the country. Many of the structures they documented show years—some, decades—of decay and neglect. The crumbling structures are being reclaimed by nature. "In the winter months,...