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Mushi Mushi Land in Tamura-shi, Japan
Kodomonokuni Mushi Mushi Land is a theme park in the town of Tamura, in Japan's Fukushima Prefecture. "Mushi" means "bug" in Japanese (not to be confused with the Japanese telephone greeting "moshi...
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Dan Brown Is Paying a Lot of Money to Digitize a Library Devoted to Mysticism
Leonardo Da Vinci. (Photo: Public Domain)Dan Brown, who gave us tomes like The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, and words like "symbologist," is donating €300,000, or around $337,500, to a Dutch...
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A Famous Edible Bug Market in Beijing Is Closing
Among the delicacies you can purchase. (Photo: Guy Sie/CC BY-SA 2.0)Beijing's Donghuamen Night Market has been selling bug delicacies for over three decades, but its time selling edible scorpions on a...
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Coudersport Ice Mine in Coudersport, Pennsylvania
In the summer of 1894, a hapless fortune seeker scoured the slopes of what is now Ice Mountain with a divining rod, intent on finding the fabulous silver deposits he (for whatever reason) believed were...
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Prisoner Art of Guaita Tower in Città di San Marino, San Marino
Rocca Guaita is one of three castle peaks in the city of San Marino, capital of the tiny republic of the same name. Entirely encircled by Italy, this little country historically protected itself from...
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Museum of Pharmacy in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
It was 1573 when the first pharmacy in Cluj-Napoca was opened in this house, and it has been an almost uninterrupted apothecary's haven for close to 450 years now (with a regrettable stint as a...
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Los Feliz Murder Mansion in Los Angeles, California
On the night of December 6, 1959, in a mansion that sits on a Los Feliz hilltop in Los Angeles, Dr. Harold Perelson struck his wife to death with a hammer, severely beat his 18-year-old daughter, and...
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Aokigahara Suicide Forest in Koshu, Japan
Called "the perfect place to die," the Aokigahara forest in Japan has the unfortunate distinction of the world's second most popular place to take one's life. (The first is the Golden Gate Bridge.)...
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City West Ghost Town in Chesterton, Indiana
Though Chicago grew up to become America's third biggest city, 30 years before the Civil War it wasn't much of a place. In the early-1800s, Chicago still only had about 200 residents. Hounded by...
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If You Love Pokémon Go, Thank This 15-Year-Old Alternate Reality Game
His story was fake, the game was not. (Photo: Quentin X/Fair Use/Warner Brothers)We get it: Pokémon Go is a really fun new way to experience the world, and make it seem more mysterious and magical than...
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Why Pokémon Go Players Are Going to Keep Finding Dead Bodies
Pokémon Go will lead to some less-than-cute discoveries. (Image: shah141/DeviantArt)For the second time in a week, a Pokémon Go player has found a dead body. In the more recent incident. a player was...
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Meet the Snake-Hatted Woman and Elastic Skin Man of the Harvard Theatre...
German broadside depicting the varied performances of the ‘Fire-King’ Paul Schwarzenberg and the contortionist C. Coppal, 1839. (All photos: Courtesy of Houghton Library, Harvard University) If you’re...
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The Cartoon Museum in London, England
It might surprise the characters inside, but this London museum has a royal patron heading up their loyal following.In 2006 a dedicated cadre of cartoonists, comic artists and collectors known as the...
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The Incredible Complications of Living Atop the U.S.-Canada Border
Canadian customs at Pohénégamook, which shares the border with Estcourt Station, Maine. (Photo: Kevin Williams)Estcourt Station is a smudge of a village that straddles the Maine-Quebec border at the...
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Laguna Quilotoa in Ecuador
When the Quilotoa volcano last erupted in 1280, it left behind a gaping caldera 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) across, which is now filled with brilliant turquoise water.At an elevation of around 3,800 to...
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Victorians Drank Soda Out Of Monstrous Gilded Machines
A typically opulent 1880s soda fountain, in a drugstore in British Columbia. (Photo: Bettman/Getty Images)On a hot day, a cold soda can feel downright luxurious. Pop the tab, tip your head back, and...
View ArticleRussia Is Trying to Build a Bomber That Can Fire Nukes from Space
Russia is building a hypersonic stealth bomber than can launch nuclear bombs from spacehttps://t.co/9Kyp7KtFrIpic.twitter.com/MzjpWRZmtS— IBTimes UK (@IBTimesUK) July 14, 2016Russian officials have...
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Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Cambridge, England
“I little thought when I bought an old telescope, for the sum of 10 francs from an antique shop in Tours in 1913 that I was embarking on the slippery slope of collecting.” - Robert Stewart...
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The Leaning Tower of Texas in Groom, Texas
Despite a population of 574 residents and its location in the middle of nowhere, the town of Groom, Texas has nearly as many unique attributes as it does people.These include a small stretch of the...
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The Eternal Mystery of How This Bear Locked Itself Inside of a Car
Here we have a bear—a cub, actually, from the looks of it—that somehow found itself trapped inside of a station wagon. "How did he get in?" A deputy says on the video. "I don't see a broken window."How...
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