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Ukraine Is Planning to Build a Massive Solar Farm at Chernobyl
The Chernobyl plant in 2006, covered in a protective containment structure. (Photo: Carl Montgomery/CC BY 2.0)The Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred 30 years ago, leaving dozens dead and hundreds of...
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Huron Indian Cemetery in Kansas City, Kansas
Controversial and sacred in turns, this small corner of land tucked away between libraries and government offices has a somber history.The Huron Indian Cemetery, now formerly known as the Wyandot...
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Sewers of Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain
Barcelona is known as the birthplace of Catalan "modernisme", due to the architectural style pioneered there at the turn of the century. However, exploring below the city's streets betrays the many...
View ArticleNew York's Favorite Corpse Flower Is Finally Blooming
Attention lovers of life and death: after days of waiting, the New York Botanical Garden's corpse flower, the celebrity plant of the season, has finally begun to bloom. Fans have been waiting with...
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Hitler's Olympic Village in Berlin, Germany
Little known to most tourists and even Germans, on the edge of Berlin lie the chilling abandoned remains of “Hitler’s Olympic village,” built for the so-called Nazi Games of 1936.Germany won the bid to...
View ArticleThe 'Betty Crocker House' Is For Sale
Norwell's 'Betty Crocker House' is for sale: https://t.co/J953SkOyXgpic.twitter.com/V03vXZcSVc— Boston Magazine (@BostonMagazine) July 21, 2016Betty Crocker was designed to be the image of the perfect...
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The Incredible Chevalier d'Eon, Who Left France as a Male Spy and Returned as...
A profile view of the Le Chevalier d’Éon. (Photo: Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale/Public Domain)When the Chevalier d’Eon left France in 1762, it was as a diplomat, a spy in the French king’s service, a...
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Blue City, Rollercoaster Bridge, and 7 Fascinating New Locations in the Atlas
Every day our community of travelers and writers unearths fascinating places from the hidden corners of the world and adds them to the Atlas, helping to build our collaborative database of over 9,000...
View ArticleWatch More Than 200 Rubik's Cubes Turn Into Pokémon Art
One artist is putting an interesting twist on the concept of cubism.In this time-lapse video, a single pair of hands belonging to artist Kyudan arranges 240 Rubik’s Cubes into a stunning Poké-picture...
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The Mock Mayors Who Pretend to Rule Bits of Britain
NEWS | Mock mayor celebrated - https://t.co/DReFc9qV0Vpic.twitter.com/jvy4LOtZa2— Bury Street (@BuryStAbingdon) June 23, 2016If you were traveling across England in the mid-1700s, and you happened to...
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Silent Heroes of the Cold War National Memorial in Mt Charleston, Nevada
In the early days of the Cold War, Mt. Charleston, Nevada was the site of a tragic plane crash that took the lives of fourteen men. They remained unknown and unnamed for over forty years. What happened...
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Jean-Michel Basquiat Commemorative Plaque in New York, New York
A New Yorker through-and-through, the great American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in Brooklyn in 1960, and he lived all of his too-brief 27 years in the city he loved. The last five years were...
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The Soviet Travel Brochures That Made Estonia Look Like a Fairytale
A scene from the dance festival of school children in Tallinn, 1972. (All Photos: Courtesy The Tallinn Collector) "The restaurant of Hotel Viru serves excellent food,"the brochure reads, under a photo...
View ArticleWatch Colorado Firefighters Make a Complex Horse Rescue
Getting closer, Cupcake has more energy and lots of encouragement. Updates to follow. #SavingCupcakepic.twitter.com/NLozhGPezl— SouthMetroFireRescue (@SouthMetroPIO) July 28, 2016Late yesterday...
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The First Global Urban Planning Conference Was Mostly About Manure
Electric streetcars eventually began to replace horse-drawn cars in the early 20th century. (Photo: Brown Brothers/Public Domain)The sticking point at the world’s first international urban planning...
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Deno's Wonder Wheel in Brooklyn, New York
Around the turn of the century, a Romanian-born amusement engineer named Charles Herman decided he wanted to create a ride that would combine the thrill of a scenic railway, Ferris wheel and...
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Found: A 3,000-Year-Old Ball of Yarn
This is 3,000 years old. (Photo: Must Farm Archaeology)The ball of yarn above is 3,000 years old. For much of its existence, it has been buried underground, in boggy land, along with the rest of the...
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Dock of Souls (Muelle de las Almas) in Chile
Chiloé Island, in the far northern reaches of Patagonia, has long been an off-the-beaten-path tourist destination. Long popular with Chileans for its rich folklore and authentic rural feel (it's a...
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Marcella Sembrich Opera Museum in Bolton, New York
The words "opera museum" might not scream exciting, but the Marcella Sembrich Opera Museum is well worth a visit.Located in the Adirondack foothills of upstate New York, it overlooks Lake George and is...
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Watch the Saddest Political Balloon Drop of All Time
President Jimmy Carter, looking like he knows his balloons aren't coming. (Screenshot: Youtube)The final night of the 2016 Democratic National Convention was rife with star turns—Khizr Khan's stirring...
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