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Fleeting Wonders: Rent An Airbnb With 6 Million Skeletons In Its Closet
Photo: Vlastimil Juricek/WikiCommonsSome people like their Airbnb host to be friendly and welcoming. Others prefer one that points them to the bathroom and then gets out of the way. And still others...
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What Is The Point Of A Pug–and 19 Other Dog Breeds?
Best friends. (Photo: artvintage1800s.etsy.com/flickr) It can be hard to look at a modern dog breed and see any sort of use for it other than a snuggle buddy. Dog breeds have been systematically...
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Pool Park Asylum in Ruthin, Wales
Pool Park Asylum at Clawddnewydd, near Ruthin, has stood abandoned since closing in 1990. Like any good abandoned asylum, it’s damp, dilapidated, and deathly silent.The estate of Pool Park (spelled...
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Goussainville-Vieux Pays in Goussainville, France
Just to the north of Paris, under the flight path of the Charles de Gaulle airport, lies the specter of a little French town that was postcard-perfect – until catastrophe struck.Goussainville-Vieux...
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Hansen's Disease Museum in Carville, Louisiana
On a chilly winter night in 1894, a coal barge glided up the Mississippi toward a dilapidated sugar plantation, delivering its seven sickly passengers to their new home.It was the last chance of refuge...
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Hohllay Cave in Berdorf, Luxembourg
Entering Luxembourg's Hohllay Cave, one might be forgiven for thinking that it was once home to a order of druids or some other other ancient sect thanks to strange marking covering the cave walls. But...
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German Salt Museum in Lüneburg, Germany
It's easy to forget what a colossal impact such a simple substance as salt has had on our lives, and our civilization, and it's even easier to forget that it doesn't just come from nowhere. Thankfully...
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Neither Rome, GA, Nor Rome, NY, Could Handle a Statue with Wolf Teats
The original statue as it appears in the Palazzo dei Conservatori (Image: Public domain/Wikimedia)The Capitoline Wolf, a famous emblem of Rome, Italy, is a rather strange piece of art. It’s a bronze...
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See Technicolor Food Photos from Original Soviet Cookbooks
Kefir, a fermented milk drink from the Caucasus Mountains and one of the staples of a Soviet diet. The accompanying recipe in the CCCP Cookbook is for Dovga Soup, an Azerbaijani yogurt soup. (All...
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Exit Interview: Being A T. Rex Turned Me Into A Monster
Not to spoil the illusion, but there's a person inside this T. rex puppet. (Image courtesy of Erth)Many people have found that their jobs change them, but how would it change you if your job was to be...
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Buzz-A-Rama in Brooklyn, New York
Nestled in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn is an unlikely mom-and-pop establishment that seems like it has been transported there from another time. The store is Buzz-A-Rama, a model slot car...
View ArticleFleeting Wonders: Green Space Bubbles Captured on a Dragon Camera
Sure being an astronaut is hazardous and lonely and often stressful, but damn if Scott Kelly isn’t making it look fun.When NASA recently tasked him with testing out their new RED Epic Dragon (real...
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FOUND: A Tiny Photo of Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid, on the left (Photo: Kagin's, Inc.)Five years ago, Randy Guijarro spent just a couple of dollars on some old tintype photos he found in Fresno, California. When he looked at one of them...
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How Detroit Exorcised Devil's Night
Detroit by night. (Photo: Ed Schipul/flickr)Some call it Mischief Night, others Cabbage Night but the night before Halloween, with its long history of pranks escalating into chaos and destruction, is...
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Nautilus Foundation in Monticello, Florida
Francois Bucher was one of those wonderfully rare professors who made academia seem wild, adventurous, and almost a little dangerous.Bucher was a Guggenheim fellow and Getty scholar who spoke six...
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Before Farming, Writing, Or The Wheel, Humans Began Perfecting The Skyscraper
Burj Al Arab in Dubai, currently the world's tallest building by 70 feet. (Photo: Donaldytong/WikiCommon CC BY-SA 3.0)Between now and 2018, if all goes according to plan, New York City will be home to...
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Providence Canyon State Outdoor Recreation Area in Lumpkin, Georgia
Gorgeous Providence Canyon, affectionately known as "Georgia's Little Grand Canyon," is one of Georgia's most treasured locations.It's even been touted as one of the state's "Seven Natural Wonders,"...
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The First Global Fairy Census Wants To Hear About Your Close Encounters
John Atkinson Grimshaw’s 1897 painting "Spirit of the Night”. (Photo: Public Domain/WikiCommons) More than 50 years ago, the Fairy Investigation Society was all but destroyed by a fairy sex scandal of...
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Rock House Reservation in West Brookfield, Massachusetts
In its retreat during the last Ice Age, the Wisconsin Glacier left its impressive mark on the New England landscape in the form of unique rock outcroppings deposited in seemingly unlikely places. Rock...
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Strada della Forra in Lombardia, Italy
You may recognize this twisting road from the opening sequence of Bond flick Quantum of Solace, in which 007 tears along cliff faces and canyons with the bad guys in hot pursuit and a prisoner in the...
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