Tired of the same vacation photos? Well, so were these travelers. This style of photography, called forced perspective, uses optical illusion to make objects appear closer or farther than they really are.
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The blood moon eclipse returned for an encore early Wednesday morning. People in North America and Australia, and parts of South America and Asia, were treated to a total lunar eclipse. iReporter Paulo Solano combined three different exposures using HDR photography to create this beautiful image of the blood moon in Van Nuys, California.
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There’s a real-life yellow brick road that leads to the Land of Oz, a vintage theme park that sits alone on top of Beech Mountain in North Carolina. Jessica Georgia and her family visited the revived theme park, which now operates as a vacation rental property, in late May. She says it was like being transported into “The Wizard of Oz” movie. “The gates are there, there were the yellow bricks, and the shell of what used to be a castle,” she said.
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"I was immersed in green. Everything was green. And the air — the air was crisp and clean and just seemed to have more oxygen in it," Jill Thorton said about Scotland after her trip there in June.
On September 18, Scotland could become independent from the United Kingdom.
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Did you know lighthouse keeping was one of the first U.S. government jobs available to women?
Here are 9 more interesting facts about lighthouses in honor of National Lighthouse Day.