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The Most Inaccessible Places in the World People Desperately Want To Visit
Red Seabeach. (Photo: Jia Mi/Used with Permission)The Atlas is full of remarkable places that most everyone wants to go, as well as remarkably remote or obscure places that few have even heard of. And...
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Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau, Alaska
Mendenhall Glacier, not far from downtown Juneau, is is one of the few Alaskan glaciers with an “EZ-pass”: It’s surrounded by the Tongass National Forest, but you can easily get there by car, by air,...
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The First Published Study About Chemtrails Is Here
Condensation trails behind a plane. (Photo: Public domain)All good conspiracy theories are alike, while each bad conspiracy theory seems to be dumb in its own unique way. Take chemtrails, for example....
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How Flower-Obsessed Victorians Encoded Messages in Bouquets
A Victorian-era print of a bouquet of roses. (Photo: Boston Public Library/CC BY 2.0)Imagine for a moment that a messenger shows up at the door of your elegantly-appointed Victorian home and hands you...
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Graffiti Alley in Baltimore, Maryland
Spraying graffiti in the state of Maryland can land you in up to three years of prison and a $2,500 fine. This is the risk graffiti artists take in every corner of the state — except for one, a...
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Speakers' Corner in London, England
Free speech laws in the United Kingdom include some notorious exceptions: Saying anything to incite religious and racial hatred, threaten the monarchy, or endorse terrorism may be considered unlawful....
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Photographing the World's Most Top Secret Floors
"European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, 2005"—one entry in Martin John Callanan's ongoing "Grounds" series. (All photos courtesy Martin John Callanan)Have you ever wanted an inside look at the room...
View ArticleWatch Bacteria Jiggle, Pulse, and Shine to a Party Rock Anthem
There are crazy, flashy raves growing on these petri dishes. The undulating lights in the four-minute video set to LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem” are actually produced by bacteria. The single-celled...
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Cube House in Rotterdam, Netherlands
Straddled above roads and intertwined amongst themselves, Rotterdam’s string of cube houses, each tilted at an abnormal angle of 55 degrees, have stunned every commuter to ever exit the adjacent Blaak...
View ArticleThe 'Cajun Navy' That's Helping Residents in Flooded Louisiana
#CajunNavypic.twitter.com/Pt1d21I20Z— Steve Hardy (@SteveRHardy) August 15, 2016Nearly 11 years ago, as Hurricane Katrina brought in a deluge of rain, causing flooding across the state of Louisiana, a...
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Dangling Legs at the Piedmont Boutique in San Francisco, California
Selling faux fur, disco outfits, feathery dresses, wigs, and 80s bangles, the Piedmont Boutique in the Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco sprung out of the 60s hippie counterculture. But this...
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The Biochemist Behind Light Beer, the Greatest Marketing Gimmick the World...
Bud light taps. (Photo: Michael Dorausch/CC BY-SA 2.0)A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail.When it comes to products...
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Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy in Moscow, Russia
Walking through the exhibition center's awesome entrance gates — similar in size to the Brandenburg Gate — visitors are greeted with wide avenues, perfectly manicured lawns, and flower beds that form...
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Old Bank Arcade Animated Musical Clock in Wellington, New Zealand
Old Bank Arcade in Wellington, New Zealand, is actually neither an arcade nor a bank. It's a shopping center housed in, as the name suggests, the old Bank of New Zealand. And the centerpiece of the...
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No. 44 Stuyvesant in New York, New York
The Stuyvesants were the founding family of New Amsterdam, so it follows that their 220-year-old house on a street named after them in the Bowery (which derives its name from the Old Dutch word for...
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The Wild Frogs, Newts and Salamanders That Have Eluded Cameras for Decades
Scientists discovered this toad during an expedition to Colombia. The species, which has yet to be officially described and named, was dubbed the “Monty Burns” toad by lead scientist and photographer...
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There Was a Sausage Attack in Germany Against a BMW
Sometimes a weapon is whatever you have on hand. (Photo: webandi/CC0)Sometimes, the daily grind gets you down. You try to judge situations on a case-by-case basis, and link them together for broader...
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How the 1985 Fantasy Film 'Legend' Ended Up With Two Soundtracks
Darkness calls. (Photo: Screenshot by Eric Grundhauser)Ridley Scott’s 1985 fantasy classic Legend is a beloved '80s movie, unless you don’t like it. For every '80s kid that marks it as one of the...
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The Forgotten Tale of How America Converted Its 1980 Olympic Village Into a...
The Olympic flame burning at Lake Placid in 1980. (Photo: Dan Lundberg/cropped/CC BY-SA 2.0)For two weeks in the winter of 1980, a small town in upstate New York had an Olympic Village filled with...
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Alamparai Fort in Edaikazhinadu, India
Built in the mid-18th centuries on the site of a seaport active since ancient times, Alamparai Fort (also known as "Alampara") has witnessed wars, earthquakes, tsunamis, and the ever-turning tides of...
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