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In 1975, a Cat Co-Authored a Physics Paper
THIS IS A DRAMATIZATION. (Photo: Kachalkina Veronika/Shutterstock.com)When one reads a physics paper in an esteemed journal, one does not generally wonder if it was written by a cat. But such was the...
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Oatman Ghost Town in Oatman, Arizona
As the Old Route 66 ascends into the Black Mountains of western Arizona, drivers on the Mother Road will go dozens of miles without passing any signs of life—that is, until they are stopped in their...
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Love Island and Castle Burg Bring in Edertal, Germany
When the waters of Lake Eder are high and romance is in the air, young lovers make their way to Love Island.The "island" is actually a hilltop where once stood a relatively small castle, called Burg...
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One of Iceland's Biggest Volcano Might Be Close to Erupting
Katla from a distance. (Photo: Gary J. Wood/CC BY-SA 2.0)Iceland is home to some 130 volcanoes, with over a dozen considered to be active, and with a few them liable to erupt at any minute. Now, after...
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Tetrapod Trackway in Kerry, Ireland
About 385 million years ago, a primitive vertebrate walked through the muddy coastline of Ireland's Valentia Island, dragging its lizard-like tail behind it as it climbed ashore. Incredibly, the tracks...
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Food Testing in 1902 Featured a Bow Tie-Clad 'Poison Squad' Eating Plates of...
Members of the "Poison Squad", individuals who tested whether food was safe for human consumption. (Photo: FDA/Public Domain)Twelve young men sat around a fine dinner table with a crisp white...
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Ghost Palace Hotel in Baturiti, Indonesia
Near the road from hard-partying Kuta to picturesque Lake Beratan, a massive luxury resort stretches languorously down a mountain ridge—not a particularly notable sight, but for the fact that this...
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Crooked Forest - Krzywy Las in Nowe Czarnowo, Poland
Sometimes the strangest sights are found in nature. In this case, about 400 pine trees in northwest Poland appear to be almost normal—but they are not. If you look at the base of these trees, you may...
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Meet the Button Obsessives Who Salivate Over Hillary and Trump Souvenirs
A button signed by Hillary Clinton. (Photo: Bob Levine)Laid up in a hospital bed, recovering from a spider bite, Bob Levine pays close attention to the television screen. It’s the Democratic National...
View ArticleFound: A Giant Slug the Size of a Cat
What a MASSIVE SLUG! I still can't believe how big it was!WATCH HERE -> https://t.co/vpCbyoRXfPpic.twitter.com/eL01MrWPqZ— COYOTE PETERSON (@COYOTEPETERSON) August 31, 2016 Sometimes, if you go...
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Angry Elves Force Iceland Road Workers To Dig Up A Sacred Rock
Wait, are those guys covering my rock?! (Photo: leospek/Shutterstock.com)In Iceland, elves are serious business, so when local road construction covered up a rock that was important to the wee folk,...
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Nelson Mandela's Grandson Wants People To Stop Naming Things After Nelson...
"Nelson Mandela Square," a shopping mall in Johannesburg. (Photo: Marc Smith/CC BY 2.0)South Africa's Mthatha Airport is up for a name change. According to City Press, the airport's Aviation Board is...
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Devil's Hole in St. Mary, Jersey
There is a natural crater along the north coast of Jersey, the largest of the Channel Islands between England and France. It wasn’t caused by a meteorite, but most likely by the collapse of a cave...
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A Massive Amount of Cocaine Was Found at a French Coca-Cola Plant
(Photo: Ken/CC BY 2.0)Coca-Cola, in its original 19th-century formula, contained cocaine. The plant-based stimulant was legal back then: in Georgia, where Coca-Cola originates, alcohol was what...
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Commemoration of Peter the Great's Vomit in Brussels, Belgium
In Parc de Bruxelles, across from the Royal Palace in Brussels, there are two odd, 8-meter pits on either side of the path. Walk over to the pit on the left hand side, but know that this isn't the best...
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Yellowstone Owes Its Early Success To Public Bear Feeding
The bear "Lunch Counter" behind Old Faithful. (Photo: Yellowstone National Park/Public Domain)When F. Dumont Smith visited Yellowstone National Park's Lake Hotel in 1909, he came away with a few...
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Čolina Kapa Astronomical Observatory in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Around World War II, an Austro-Hungarian military fortress was built on Mount Trebević. The mountaintop provided views of the entire city, and was a key point in military observation. After the war...
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Forbidden Caverns in Sevierville, Tennessee
Tucked below English Mountain at the eastern edge of the Great Smoky Mountains sits a picturesque series of caves. They are not unlike many of the 8,000-some-odd caverns that dot the Tennessee...
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The World’s First Travel Writer Was a Guy From Ancient Greece
An 1819 painting of ancient Livadeia, a city "no less adorned than the most prosperous of Greek cities," wrote Pausanias. (Photo: Public Domain)In ancient times, tourists and travelers in Greece have...
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Grand Central Ceiling Dark Patch in New York, New York
In 1998, after two years of renovations, the scaffolding came down from Grand Central Terminal’s Main Concourse. After decades of neglect and decline the station was finally being restored, including a...
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