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Meet the Father of Modern Space Art
Saturn as seen from Titan, 1944 (Photo: Reproduced courtesy of Bonestell LLC)Twenty-five years before Neil Armstrong set foot on the lunar surface, Chesley Bonestell showed humanity a view from...
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Man Mound in Baraboo, Wisconsin
Sprawled across a rural county road in the rolling hills of southern Wisconsin are... the severed legs of an ancient humanoid giant?The Mound Builder civilization that once thrived in the American...
View ArticleA Previously Undiscovered Boa Constrictor Has Been Found
Amazing new silver boa constrictor species found on remote island https://t.co/LxBLizPqV4pic.twitter.com/i1f8T6SSt3— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) May 27, 2016Last year, a group of scientists were asleep...
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Cumberland Pencil Museum in Keswick, England
“Fraser-Smith. Charles Fraser-Smith”.OK, he wasn’t James Bond. But Charles Fraser-Smith was thought to be the inspiration for the gadget guru “Q” in the Ian Fleming series, serving as an agent for...
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The First Flying Subterranean Insect Discovered in One of the World's Deepest...
Photo of Troglocladius hajdi showing the pale color and the broad wings. (Photo: Anderson, et al. / CC BY-4.0)There are cave dwellers, and then there are obligate cave dwellers. Our view of what that...
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Spend a Night in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Secret Sewer Lair
Cowabunga, dudes and dudettes! (Photo: AirBnB)The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have made numerous pop culture contributions over the years—chief among them, making living in the sewers of New York...
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The Best Visualization of Climate Change isn't a Graph—It's a Death Spiral
NOAA's land & ocean temperature records for April, 2016. Global temperatures can be broadly summarized as "unseasonably warm." (Illustration: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Public...
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Lehman Caves in Baker, Nevada
Enter the Lehman Caves, and you’ll step into a dazzling and seemingly endless array of stalactites, stalagmites, and helictites reaching down from above and up from below. In total, the cave’s delicate...
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Work Out in a Bank Vault in Baltimore's Art Deco Gym
The entrance to the Baltimore Trust Co. Building at 10 Light Street. (Photo: Vincent van Zeijst/CC BY-SA-3.0)The Baltimore Trust Co. building in Downtown Baltimore has a new ground-floor tenant—the...
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Found: A Rare Nazi Coding Machine, Hiding in a Garden Shed
The Nazi Lorenz teleprinter. (Photo: National Museum of Computing)During World War II, the Nazi elite used special cipher machines to send coded messages among members of the High Command. One of the...
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London's Real Estate is So Nuts that Businesses are Opening in Public Toilets
The bar Ladies & Gents, housed in a former public toilet in Kentish Town, London. (Photo: Ewan Munro/CC BY-SA 2.0)William Borrell walked by the same the abandoned public toilet at a junction in the...
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How a Black Man From Missouri Passed as an Indian Pop Star
Korla Pandit sitting at an organ. (Photo: Collection of John Turner)This article originally appeared on What It Means to Be American.Turning on the TV in Los Angeles in 1949, you might have come...
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Majlis al Jinn Cave Chamber in Oman
Majlis al Jinn is the second largest cave chamber in the world by surface area. The base of the cave is 624,000 square feet, the size of nearly 11 football fields. However the only way to get in is...
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A Young Couple's Illicit Photo Shoot Inside a Historic Indian Palace
An allowed image of Mysore Palace. (Photo: Ramesh NG/CC BY-SA 2.0)India’s Mysore Palace is a wonder to behold, not only from the outside, but on the inside as well, although you are not allowed to take...
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It Was A Record Year For Québécois Maple Syrup Production
Quebec produced enough syrup this spring to fill approximately 287 million 6-ounce bottles. (Photo: Ano Lobb/CC BY 2.0)Pancake-lovers, tuck in your napkins: the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup...
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Whakaari/White Island in Bay of Plenty , New Zealand
It’s called White Island, but what’s striking about New Zealand’s most active volcano is its riot of colors. Underneath the continuous plumes of white smoke there are brilliant yellows, teal blues,...
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The Irrepressible Palm Tree Tourists Who Travel the World to See Fronds
Palms in Argentina. (Photo: Public Domain)Grant Stephenson can rattle off facts about palm trees in the way others chatter about baseball: Did you know palm trees have the largest seed of any plant?...
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In the 16th Century, the Best Office Decor was a Tiny Rotting Corpse
A 16th-century memento mori attributed to Hans Leinberger. (Photo: The Walters Art Museum/Creative Commons)There are many additions you can make to your office desk in order to remind yourself to stay...
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University of Al-Karaouine in Fes, Morocco
The University of Al-Karaouine, also written as al-Quaraouiyine and al-Qarawiyyin (in Arabic: جامعة القرويين), is considered by the Guinness World Records as well as UNESCO as the oldest continuously...
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Turkey Creek Schoolhouse in Mountain View, Arkansas
For a time Turkey Creek, Arkansas, with a population averaging around 300 people, had its own school. There was one room, two doors, 10 windows, some slate blackboard, and a woodstove. It was built in...
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