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Forks Timber Museum in Forks, Washington
If you are driving around Forks, Washington and see two burly loggers hardily sawing away—yet who are not moving, but rather motionlessly carved into wood—then you’ve arrived at the Forks Timber...
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Take a Ride on 10 of the World's Most Mind-Blowing Elevators
This elevator doesn't go to space, it just looks like it. (Photo: motoyen/CC BY 2.0)Why take the stairs when the world is filled with so many amazing elevators? All over the world, there are elevators...
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Honeysuckle Is a Blob-Like Monster Taking Over American Forests
Amur honeysuckle blossoms. (Photo: Ryan McEwan)One of the signs of summer, for me, has always been tasting honeysuckle flowers. When I was a kid, they edged the yard of a family friend, and we’d stand...
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Do You Live in a Mail-Order Sears Kit Home? These House Hunters Will Find You
Great find—a Sears "Magnolia" in Canton, Ohio, and its catalog listing. Enthusiasts call the Magnolia the "holy grail of kit houses." (Photo: Courtesy Andrew and Wendy Mutch)This past Monday, a car...
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Found: Baby Falcons, High Up on NYC Bridges
A falcon on the Marine Parkway Bridge. (Photo: MTA/Patrick Cashin/CC BY 2.0)Peregrine falcons like to nest in high-up places, and in New York City that means they’re on top of bridges. Every year, the...
View ArticleFireflies That Blink In Sync Return To Tennessee
Good Morning #Tennessee Anybody heading to see the Synchronous Fireflies in the @greatsmokynps? #gsmnp#firefliespic.twitter.com/bMjdxO5Ss6— Instagram Tennessee (@InstagramTenn) June 3, 2016As most...
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The Carousel in Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York
It’s rare that one can actually climb on a 100-year-old work of art, but that’s exactly what you get to do when riding this Brooklyn treasure. “The Carousel in Prospect Park” was built in 1912 by...
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The First Woman to Drive Around the World Wore Men’s Breeches and Had a Pet...
The great Aloha Wanderwell. (All photos: © The Nile Baker Trust/Richard Diamond)An 18-year-old woman dressed in men’s riding breeches and a scout’s cap lay restless at the foot of the Great Sphinx in...
View ArticleAmerican Idol: Coyote Edition
If you've never had coyotes wandering in your backyard, languorously howling and yapping at the moon, then you're missing out on quite the pre-sleep soundtrack. But this snippet of video can give you a...
View ArticleWatch A Museum Visitor Touch and Destroy a Priceless Clock
Even a broken clock is right twice a day, but that still doesn’t mean you should go around putting your hands on delicate timepieces, a lesson one man recently learned first hand when he knocked a rare...
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9 Surprising Places that Inspired Famous Books and Music
Puzzlewood, in England, said to have inspired Tolkien. (Photo: GuyBerresfordPhotography/shutterstock.com)It's often said that inspiration can be found anywhere—and sometimes these creative triggers can...
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Seven Noses of Soho in London, United Kingdom
There’s a perfectly good explanation for why several plaster noses appear randomly around London's Soho neighborhood. However, the urban legends that have bubbled up around the mysterious sculptures...
View ArticleExtremely Rare Giant Panda Cub Born in 'True Miracle'
A giant panda has given birth to a male cub in #Belgium Thu. The cub is the 1st to be born outside #China this year pic.twitter.com/6ohgtcpPbg— People's Daily,China (@PDChina) June 2, 2016There aren't...
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Jeita Grotto in Jeita, Lebanon
In 1836, American missionary Reverend William Thomson was poking around in a cave in Lebanon when he happened upon an underground river. Intrigued by the find and suspecting the cave held more to be...
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The Long Quest to Find Ashkenaz, the Birthplace of Yiddish
(Photo: Public Domain)This article was written by Eran Elhaik, Lecturer, University of Sheffield. At 1,000 years, the search for the location of Ashkenaz– thought to be the birthplace of Ashkenazic...
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The World's Only Tiananmen Square Museum May Be Closing
The current entrance to the June 4th Museum. (Photo: Dltl2010/CC BY-SA-3.0)Nearly 30 years after the Tiananmen Square Massacre—generally referred to in Chinese as the June 4th Incident (六四事件)—public...
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Spanish Town Creates Graphic Sculpture for Dog Owners
The New York City Parks Department's blunt approach to encouraging responsible dog ownership. (Photo: Josh Madison/CC BY-2.0)As any urbanite will tell you, basic rules of civility are the only thing...
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How One Man Has Explained Almost Every Internet UFO Theory
The Space Shuttle Endeavor, silhouetted on the mesosphere. (Photo: NASA/Public Domain)If you happen to frequent the more UFO-happy corners of the internet, you'll see a lot of weird things: exploding...
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Turn Extreme Camping into a Career as a Wilderness Guide
I hope she knows where she's going. (Photo: attilio pregnolato/Shutterstock.com)Welcome back to AO Jobs, the weekly column where we spotlight jobs and career opportunities that you can apply for right...
View ArticleThe First Public Course for Drone Racing Is Opening Soon
The first public drone racing course will open this summer https://t.co/7YBUWlJ3qWpic.twitter.com/I0xGpZLwJX— MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) June 4, 2016Drones aren’t just the future of warfare, it looks...
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