The Ryugyong Hotel – North Korea’s 105 storey Failure Places As one of the tallest hotels in the world, the Ryugyong Hotel has quite a story, and that's before it has even opened its doors to the awaiting,...
World’s Tallest 3D-printed Building – WinSun Decoration Design Engineering Things The ever advancing technology of the 3D-Printer has reached new heights with this: The World's Tallest 3D-Printed Building from Shanghai-based...
12 of the Strangest Homes You’re Ever Likely to See Things We like to embrace all kinds of architecture here on Sobify, but none come more fun than this unusual selection. With this series of buildings you...
Strange Places – Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew, Thailand Places As part of our series of articles on strange architecture, it is time to take a look at the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew complex in north-east...
22 Year Old Skydiving Hero Acts As A Human Shield On Impact People 22 Year old hero Robert Cooke, and the girl he saved, 21 year old Australian Kimberly Dear In 2006 a 22-year hero named Robert Cook made the...
Tinian Island – Declassified Pictures Taken Hours Before Dropping the Hiroshima Bomb. Things On August 6th and 9th of 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing unparalleled...
Saddam Hussain’s Abandoned Palaces Places Maqar-el -thartar palace, lake Thartar, June 11, 2003. Credit: Marco Di Lauro Absolute power can be a terrifying prospect in any society....
Secret Underwater Billiard Room Beneath an English Lake Places Witley Park is an intriguing abandoned place in the middle of the English countryside. Many of the photographs you see here are of a hidden space...
Modest Hero – A blind man saves his blind neighbour from a blazing house fire People Jim Sherman from Grangerland, Houston is a hero. When his neighbour became trapped in a blazing house fire back in March 2006, he did more than...
Ghost Ship in the Arctic floats Unmanned for nearly 40 years Things The S.S Baychimo while in use by the Hudson's Bay Trading Company Although the coast of Alaska is remote, and the region of the high arctic...
Groom Tries to Kill Himself at His Own Wedding after Seeing Bride for the First Time People Arranged weddings are a bad idea in any culture, however in many instances the couples involved do attempt to make it work. Not in this case...
Abandoned – The ‘Desertron’ Super Collider, Texas Places In the 1980s the Department of Energy began designing what would have been the largest and most energetic particle accelerator in the...
Maho Beach – Take a blast to the face by a passing jet plane Places On Maho Beach, on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, there is more to do than just sunbathe and swim. The beach is located right next to...
Solomon’s Castle – A Medieval Style Castle Made From Scrap Metal & Car Parts Things Moving from New York to Florida over 40 years ago, Howard Solomon took the saying, ‘a man’s home is his castle’, and made it into a 12,000...
NYC Subway Cars Dumped into the Ocean Things At first it may look like an environmental travesty. The photographs below show 40 year old NYC subway cars being dumped with reckless abandon into...
