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When The Western World Ran on Guano
Hawaiian seabirds exult in their power over the economy. (Photo: Forest and Kim Starr/Flickr)A new natural fuel is discovered. It's so efficient, the initial science is unbelievable; so powerful, it...
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Striking Aerial Photographs of Tiny Humans
Disney's Typhoon Lagoon Water Park, Florida. (All photos: © Jason Hawkes)London-based photographer Jason Hawkes has spent nearly two decades looking at cities from above. Several times a week he climbs...
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Myers House in Hillsborough, North Carolina
The facade of the Myers family home from John Carpenter's seminal 1978 slasher classic, Halloween is one of the most iconic locations in all of horror cinema, and one overachieving fan has gone to the...
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How Marshall Islanders Navigated the Sea Using Only Sticks and Shells
Obviously these sticks and shells are a sea chart. (Image: brewbooks/Flickr)If you live in a country consisting of over 1,100 islands spread across 750,000 square miles, how do you navigate the sea in...
View ArticleFleeting Wonders: A Football Stadium Turns Into A Waterfall
A high school football stadium in Tacoma, Washington flooded dramatically over the weekend, with water cascading down the bleachers and covering the field to a depth of several feet.As player Ryan...
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Charles Williams Jr. House in Somerville, Massachusetts
In 1875, Charles Williams, Jr. was a successful businessman who manufactured telegraph instruments. He would shortly become a different kind of manufacturer and an even more successful businessman.In...
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The World Wingsuit Grand Prix Will Determine Who Is The Greatest Human Bird
Wingsuit pilots soaring through the sky—the closest thing to human birds. (Photo: Richard Schneider/Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-2.0)This weekend in southeastern China, the world’s top 16 birdmen will suit...
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Pittsburgh's Snoopy Doghouse in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Built by a Pittsburgh Public Works carpenter, the sleeping Snoopy and his doghouse keeps electrical conduits and wires out of the way of pedestrians with whimsical tribute to Charles M. Schulz.Near the...
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Peterborough Town Library in Peterborough, New Hampshire
At a town meeting in 1833, the citizens of Peterborough, New Hampshire decided that the pursuit of knowledge was a civic good so great that they were willing to pay for it in perpetuity. They...
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Holy City of the Wichitas in Cache, Oklahoma
Nestled in the Wichita mountains is what appears to be the stone ruins of an ancient city, but this structure is actually a fairly modern construction known as the Holy City of the Wichitas, where for...
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Casa de Shenandoah in Las Vegas, Nevada
Wayne Newton has been as much a fixture of Las Vegas as his the ubiquitous casinos on the famous Strip, and his fame has afforded him a life of opulent luxury that is possibly best exemplified by his...
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We Have a Copy of Patricia Highsmith's Unpublished Essay on Green-Wood Cemetery
At Green-Wood (Photo: katherine weil/Flickr)Late in October of 1987, the psychological thriller author Patricia Highsmith took a car over the Manhattan Bridge and through Brooklyn to Green-Wood...
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How The Army Handled Cultural Sensitivity Training in WWII
(Photo: US Army/Public Domain) What does a travel guide look like when you're part of an occupying army? Thanks to Oxford's Bodleian Library, we can get an idea. In the early 2000s, the library began...
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These Fairytale Trees Only Grow at Incredible Altitudes
Polylepis tree limbs intertwine overhead in the forest around Polylepis Lodge in Ecuador. (All photos: Eric Mohl)What has red, peeling skin and is found only in the Andes? Polylepis trees, some of the...
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Meet the Self-Appointed King of Victorian Rat-Catchers
Ratcatchers in Sydney in 1900. (Photo: State Library of NSW)It’s been a big month for New York City rats. On September 21, Pizza Rat lugged a cheesy slice down a flight of subway stairs, carrying the...
View Article100 Wonders: Necropants
Among get-rich-quick schemes, the nábrók, which directly translates as "necropants," is one of the more extreme.Necropants, a replica of which can be found in the Museum of Icelandic Sorcery and...
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The Swing Bridge in Milford, New Hampshire
In Milford, New Hampshire an iron cable suspended footbridge, known as the Swing Bridge, built in 1889, spans the Souhegan River and is still used for pedestrian traffic to this day.The original,...
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FOUND: The Earliest Known Draft of the King James Bible
An early edition of the King James Bible (Image: Private Collection of S. Whitehead/Wikimedia)In 1604, King James I gave six groups of translators a very important task: produce a definitive English...
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Gravity Research Foundation Monument in Atlanta, Georgia
Self-made millionaire Roger Babson was a busy man. On top of predicting the stock market crash, running for president as a Prohibition Party candidate, and founding Babson College, he was also fighting...
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