The Smallest Airports World Wide

 Airports can be huge, sprawling places with multiple buildings, terminals and gates. But the big, grand airports aren’t what we’re talking about here. These are the smallest airports from around the world. 

1. Morgantown Municipal Airport

This airport is mostly for general aviation, however, there is one commercial airline that connects the area to the Washington Dulles International Airport. This airport has free coffee, Wi-Fi, and parking. There is only one runway and it’s less than 2,700 feet long.

2. Dawson Community Airport

According to the Federal Aviation Administration, also known as FAA, this is the smallest airport in the United States. The airport serves less than 3,000 passengers each year. 

3. Charles Kirkconnell International Airport

This teeny airport is located in the Caribbean. Travelers are happily surprised when they see how comfortable this airport is. There’s Wi-Fi, air conditioning, an outdoor observation deck, and a bar/restaurant. The airport has only one runway, and four daily flights as of August 2020.

4. Juancho e Yrausquin Airport

This airport services the small Dutch Island of Saba in the Caribbean. The airport is known for being the smallest in the world, with the shortest runway, and high hills on one side with cliffs that drop off into the sea at both ends. The runway is so short, it comes in at just under a ¼ mile. (The runway is only slightly longer than a typical aircraft, and because of this jet aircraft cannot land here, as they may overshoot the runway and end up in the ocean.) The sole airline operating through Juancho E Yrausquin Airport is Windair, and has only two flights a day. The flights are to nearby Saint Eustatius and Saint Martin, both of which are less than 15 minute flights. 

5. Tenzing-Hillary Airport

This airport in Nepal is known as one of the smallest, and also one of the most dangerous. It’s got a super short runway as well and along with that steep cliffs and even steeper drop offs. The airport is named after Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, the first two to ever summit Mount Everest. The airport may be one of the smallest in the world but in 2016, it did see about 120,000 passengers as it’s a common starting point for people visiting or attempting Mt. Everest. 

6. Barra Airport

The smallest in Europe and the smallest in the UK, this airport is known for its many trivia facts.  The Barra airport has one of the runways with the best approach in the world. As well as being one of the smallest airports in the world, the runway is made entirely of sand. In fact, planes tend to land on the beach, much to the excitement of beach-goers. Because of the beach landings, this airport is familiar in movies and with filmmakers when beach-landings are required. The high tide here means Barra runaways are only functional for a few hours each day. There are only two airlines using the airport currently, Loganair and Flybe. 

7. Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport

You would think that the Toronto City Airport would be a major Canadian hub, but it turns outs that it’s actually one of the smallest in Canada. However, it still somehow manages to be the ninth-busiest in the country. In 2017 alone, the airport accommodated close to 3 million passengers. This airport was opened in 1939 and was intended to be Toronto’s main airport, but that went to Toronto Pearson. 

8. Olympic Dam Airport 

This Australian airport is the smallest and has only one Airline operating flights out of it, Alliance Airlines. There is only one runway and one carrier operating flights to Adalaide. Despite being little, Olympic Dam Airport accommodated almost 75,000 passengers in 2014. This airport has one main purpose though, and that is to serve the Olympic Dam mine that’s close by, as it’s the largest single deposit of uranium in the world. 

9. Luang Prabang, Laos Airport

Four airlines service this airport including Bangkok, Lao Airlines, Tonlesap Airlines, and Vietnam Airlines. The airport has only one runway but intends to expand in the near future, thus increasing flights to the location as well. The airport has a few shops, a restaurant, and a currency exchange center. 

10 Crazier Hotels of The World

 1.Dog Bark Park Inn (Idaho, US): a Beagle's Hotel

2.The Inntel Hotel (the Netherlands): a Hotel of Houses stacked on top of each other

3.Hamster Hotel (France): a Hotel that looks like a Rodent Cage

4.V8 Hotel (Germany): a car-themed hotel

5.Corona Save the Beach Hotel (Italy): the first hotel made completely out of garbage

6.Tianzi Hotel (China): the world's biggest image building hotel

7.Nhow Berlin (Germany): Europe's first music hotel

8.9h Hotel (Japan): the first luxury capsule hotel

9.Pavillon des Lettres Hotel (France): the first literary hotel

10.The Salt Hotel (Bolivia): a hotel made of salt

Most Creative Buildings of the World

 Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

 Fuji television building, Tokyo, Japan

 Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo, Japan

 Container City, London, UK

 The Hole House, Texas, USA

 Manchester Civil Justice Centre, Manchester, UK

 Gas Natural headquarters, Barcelona, Spain

 Erwin Wurm: House Attack, Vienna, Austria

 Ryugyong Hotel, Pyongyang, North Korea

 Solar Furnace, Odeillo, France

 Beijing National Stadium, Beijing, China

 CCTV Tower – China Central Television Headquarters, Beijing, China

 The Puerta de Europa towers, Madrid, Spain

 Ripley’s Building, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

 Wonderworks, Pigeon Forge, TN, USA

 Habitat 67, Montreal, Canada

Edificio Mirador, Madrid, Spain

 

Most Unique 5 Airplane Hangars in the World

 However, some airplane hangars are so unique that even those who generally aren’t interested in the topic enjoy learning about them. Consider the following examples!

 

The ‘Hidden’ Swiss Airplane Hangars

Not all hangars are immediately recognizable as being storage spaces for aircraft. There are various hangars that are difficult to spot if you’re not looking for them. Some of them may even be intentionally disguised for military purposes.

That’s one explanation some have for the hidden airplane hangars in Switzerland. In some parts of the country, hangars are essentially hidden inside of mountains, with fake rocks, shrubbery, or stone facades hiding them. The roads near them can be converted into makeshift runways when pilots need to take off or land. Additionally, sections of Swiss highways can become runways when necessary.

 

The ‘Home’ Hangars

Most pilots wealthy enough to own their planes tend to keep them in hangars owned by others. However, some of these hangars are designed to look like personal homes. Some even are homes!

For example, in Peyton, Colorado, you can find a Mediterranean inspired villa on a 2.5 acre lot featuring an adjacent hangar that the home’s owner can reach without ever actually going outside.

Silverwing, in Sandpark, Idaho, is similar. Residents of this development have easy access to a nearby airpark and can even store small planes in their own garages. Even James Bond would be jealous.

 

Hangar One

Most airplane hangars are relatively large structures. They have to be in order to store planes, after all.

However, Hangar One, in Mountain View, California, is particularly massive. Covering eight acres, it’s among the largest freestanding structures in the world. Its size is due to the fact that it originally served as a naval airship hangar. Now it belongs to NASA’s Ames Research Center.

Goodyear Airdock is a similar structure. When it was first completed in 1929, it was the largest structure in the world without interior supports. As the name implies, it was built as a hangar for Goodyear zeppelins. Along with its size, it’s well-known for its unique shape, which some have compared to a silkworm’s cocoon cut in half.

 

Hangar 7

Hangar 7, in Salzburg, Austria, was built by the founder of Red Bull as a hangar for the Flying Bulls, a fleet of unique aircraft owned by devoted pilots. It earns a spot on this list thanks to its interesting glass-centric design, as well as the fact that it may be one of the few hangars in the world with its own attached restaurant where various high end chefs serve up meals throughout the year.

 

Spruce Goose Dome

This famous hangar is now a cruise ship terminal. However, when it was first built, it served as a hangar for the Spruce Goose, Howard Hughes’ famously massive aircraft. As such, the hangar itself must also be extremely large, making it an iconic structure that remains the subject of much attention to this day.

Those are just a few examples! They highlight a point many forget: an airplane hangar’s main purpose may be aircraft storage, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be an interesting structure on its own. These noteworthy examples are proof.

Beautiful & Amazing Libraraies

 There are plenty of breathtaking places to visit in the world.

There are natural wonders like the Grand Canyon or ancient ruins like the Colosseum, or fantastic buildings with sky-high observation decks.

But there are a few places, pretty much in every city, that you might not expect to take your breath away: libraries.

No, you don’t have to be Belle from "Beauty and the Beast" to appreciate a good library. So many libraries, whether they’re several centuries or just a few decades old, can be a wonderful stop to make on your next trip.

Some libraries are even famous institutions of some of the best cities in the world. Libraries like the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building of the New York Public Library, for instance, has been photographed and appeared in movies hundreds (or possibly thousands) of times. You’ve probably seen this library, even if you haven’t been to New York.

Or, there are libraries that are celebrations of innovative design. The interesting, clean, and minimal architecture of the Stuttgart Library in Germany, for instance, would make any modern design-lover leap for joy.

And some libraries look as if you’re stepping into a royal palace, like the aptly-named Royal Portuguese Reading Room in Brazil, or the Rampur Raza Library in India.