Watch One Man Play the Drums on Lake Baikal
In remote Siberia, north of the Russian border with Mongolia, is Lake Baikal. Baikal teems with weird and wonderful lifeforms, and many believe subterranean monsters swim around its depths. The...
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Josephine Tussaud Wax Museum in Hot Springs, Arkansas
The Josephine Tussaud Wax Museum may not have the polish of the 200-year-old Madame Tussauds, but it has character. And a lot of gore.Located in the resort town of Hot Springs, Arkansas, this...
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Freddie Mercury's Former Home and Studio in London, England
Garden Lodge Mansion is on a quiet residential street in Kensington, London. If it weren't for the piles of sorrowful letters, you would never guess that it was once the home of one of rock music's...
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Inside the World's Only Surviving Tattoo Shop For Medieval Pilgrims
Wassim Razzouk tattooing the classic Jerusalem Cross motif known to look exactly like this since at least the early 1600s.(All Photos: Anna Felicity Friedman)In Jerusalem’s Old City today, you can find...
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A Healing Palindrome in New Harmony, Indiana
In the field just below the Atheneum in the charming town of New Harmony, Indiana, you'll find a surprising display: a partial circle of about 20 mysterious concrete shapes.This is "A Healing...
View ArticleThe 'Sorority House Door Stack' is a Real Thing and It's Terrifying
A stack of door stacks. (via Google Image Search)Over and over again, the ritual is repeated. A handful of smiling girls stand outside ornate doorways, often dressed in matching shirts or identical...
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Kilinochchi Water Tower in Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka
The city of Kilinochchi used to be the de facto capital Vanni (or Wanni), a swath of territory in the North of Sri Lanka that was controlled by the militant LTTE organization (Liberation Tigers Tamil...
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Sea Tigers Submarine Yard in Puthukkudiyiruppu, Sri Lanka
These submarines wouldn’t be out of place in a 1950s sci-fi flick, but in fact they are warzone remnants of the long and bloody Sri Lankan Civil War.The Mullaitivu district on Sri Lanka's northeastern...
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Aquarius Reef Base in Key Largo, Florida
A laboratory at the bottom of the ocean might sound like something out of a James Bond movie, but it's a real thing. In the second half of the 20th century, over 60 undersea labs were constructed to...
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Neptune Bar in Pulau Sikeling, Indonesia
Just 8 nautical miles north of the equator you'll find Pulau Sikeling, a remote and unpopulated island located in the Riau Islands, Indonesia. And on the island is Neptune Bar, which sits desolate and...
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Thor's Well in Yachats, Oregon
Sitting on the edge of the Oregon coast, a gaping, seemingly bottomless sinkhole swallows the unbroken stream of seawater around it. But Thor's Well, as the natural wonder is known, is not bottomless....
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The Black Mailbox in Alamo, Nevada
Update: In January 2015, the Black Mailbox was stolen. Due to constant vandalism, it may never be replaced.On a deserted stretch of road between Alamo and Rachel, Nevada known as "The Extraterrestrial...
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Soccer's Ultimate Con Man Was a Superstar Who Couldn't Play the Game
Carlos Kaiser played soccer for two decades and never scored a goal. (Photo: Krivosheev Vitaly/shutterstock.com) Brazilian soccer star Carlos Kaiser had it all: exclusive contracts with popular teams,...
View ArticleThe Fabulous History of JAZZ HANDS!
via GIPHYWhether or not you’re a musical theatre aficionado, you are probably familiar by now with the term “jazz hands” (or maybe “spirit fingers”). The motion of splaying your fingers, palms out, and...
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Found: A 300-Year Old Shoe Meant To Ward Off Evil Spirits
Lucky shoes. (Photo: Courtesy of the Cambridge Archaeological Unit/Used with Permission) Maintenance workers at Cambridge University were just trying to run some new electrical cables in the walls of...
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Flyways Waterfowl Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin
Since 1934 the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has administrated the Duck Stamp Act, an FDR initiative that has worked for 80 years to protect wetlands and migratory bird habitat. Since 2013, a small...
View ArticleAs Siberia Heats Up, This Lake Turns Pink
Like most bodies of water, Siberia's Lake Burlinskoye spends much of the year on the cool side of the color wheel: tasteful blue, murky gray.Once a summer, though, the lake lets loose: it turns a...
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Thailand's Biggest Buddha in Tambon Hua Taphan, Thailand
It is said that those who touch the Big Buddha’s right hand are blessed with luck.Known formally as Mahaminh Sakayamunee Visejchaicharn, informally as Phra Buddha Maha Nawamin, and simply as the Big...
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Mønsted Kalkgruber in Mønsted, Denmark
If the walls of Mønsted Kalkgruber could talk, they could say a lot about the thousands of people who have come through the mines over the centuries, but probably even more about the thousands of bats...
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King Neptune Sundial in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Hilton Head Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, is in what’s called the Lowcountry. It’s got beaches, hotels, resorts, and lots and lots of golf. It’s also got a 12-foot bronze statue of...
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