Unit 4 control room in the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power station

The glittering lights of London's Piccadilly Circus went AWOL one afternoon thanks to a power failure.

A volcanic plume rising from the North Island of New Zealand

When tremors hit Seattle, USA they left an imprint in a sand tray, caused by a suspended pendulum. As the earth shook, so did the tray... and the weight traced out the pattern of a flower.


Then, some years later, when I visited Mexico City, a city that experiences some seismic activity, the hotel I stayed in had their own quake rose apparatus set up.

The view from the top of an escalator shaft on the new Jubille Line Extension of the London Underground, before the escalator has been installed. I think they should install a big slippery dip instead (that's a "slide" in non-Australian English).

Who forgot to turn the oil well off after they last used it?

The new terminal at Melbourne Airport.

This is the logo for Expo 2000, which was held in Hanover, Germany. I like this because it is the antithesis of a good logo. A good logo should be clear, bold, recognisable from a distance and easily reproducable. This is a sort of anti-logo. And it's still a good logo.