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Remarkable skills. Clever inventions. Unreal places. A wonderfully wild world.
Five UNESCO World Heritage landscapes, from the Giant's Causeway to Socotra, described with the figures UNESCO gives on each property's own page.
Explore the story →What’s your kind of awesome?
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Explore adrenaline sports, exceptional skills and the work behind remarkable achievements.
Discover inventions, unusual gadgets and ingenious engineering. We distinguish real products from prototypes and concepts.
Discover remarkable landscapes, unusual architecture and natural phenomena—with the story behind the scenery.
Explore animal intelligence, unusual behaviour and remarkable wildlife, with context that goes beyond the clip.
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Unreal PlacesFive UNESCO World Heritage landscapes, from the Giant's Causeway to Socotra, described with the figures UNESCO gives on…
Wild & AwesomeFive ocean facts that sound exaggerated, from living light to the mid-ocean ridge and Challenger Deep, checked against…
Wild & AwesomeThe biggest tree by volume, the oldest non-clonal species, the lowest point in North America, the longest known…
Unreal PlacesNASA's own descriptions of Olympus Mons, Valles Marineris, Saturn's hexagon, Titan's seas and the water jets of Enceladus,…
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A spectacular photograph. An impossible-looking invention. An animal doing something unexpected. We look beyond the wow to find the explanation.
Look behind the wow →We aim to trace stories to their original sources, explain what makes them remarkable, and be clear about what’s verified. Because the story behind the wow is often the most interesting part.
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