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The '60s Chicago Teen Trend That Inspired David Bowie's 'Lost' Album
David Bowie during the Young Americans tour. (Photo: Hunter Desportes/CC BY 2.0)A new retrospective box set of David Bowie’s music (Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976)) is set to hit the streets in just a...
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See Dazzling Botanical Imagery Through the Ages
The new book from Phaidon, Plant: Exploring the Botanical World, features a rich collection of 300 images of various plants and flowers in the form of illustrations, photography and SEM micrographs....
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Why Computer Scientists In Pittsburgh Spent Last Night Differentiating...
A torrent of torsos. (Image: Adam Milner and Ben Snell)Computers can do a lot. They can beat people at Go. They can draw strange squirrels. They are running a good chunk of the planet pretty much all...
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Found: A Bunch of Dragon Boogers in a California Delta
An example of a dragon booger in freshwater. (Photo: Braunchitis/CC BY-SA 3.0)See a mysterious floating blob in the river? Most people would simply leave it be, but residents of Stockton, California...
View ArticleA Massive Sinkhole Dropped 200 Million Gallons of Radioactive Water Into the...
At a Florida fertilizer plant, a sinkhole 45 feet in diameter and 300 feet deep opened up in the ground—right underneath a giant pool of wastewater. More than 200 million gallons of contaminated water...
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Rucker Park in New York, New York
According to Bleacher Report, there is one basketball court, and one alone, that is “without a doubt the most famous basketball court on the planet.” The outdoor, two-hoop court of Rucker Park,...
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Mayong - The Land of Black Magic in Mayong, India
In northeastern India, there is a city with a mythological history even deeper than the Brahmaputra River that runs through it. Nicknamed “The Land of Black Magic,” the untouched, secluded village of...
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Keret House in Warsaw, Poland
Central Warsaw is truly crammed for space, and many downtown developers are turning horizontal space into vertical space by building tall skyscrapers. But in no other setting in the world is a...
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Lover's Leap Swinging Bridge in Columbus Junction, Iowa
In 1920, brothers Lew and Jesse Tisor were walking over the pedestrian bridge at Lovers Leap ravine. The two teenagers would have been used to the sway of the wooden walkway, but this time the planks...
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Mexico Just Shut Down a Lot of Sawmills in its Massive Monarch Butterfly Reserve
A female monarch butterfly. (Photo: Kenneth Dwain Harrelson/CC BY-SA 3.0)Every winter, millions of monarch butterflies from the eastern part of North America migrate south to a forest in the middle of...
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Mystery Valley in Kayenta, Arizona
Relatively unknown, moderately physically demanding, and inaccessible to unaccompanied visitors, Mystery Valley is a lightly trafficked but thoroughly intriguing stretch of desert.Featuring graceful...
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Nab the Abandoned Mansion That Inspired the Phrase 'Keeping Up With the Joneses'
(Photo: Public domain)Wyndclyffe, a mansion in Rhinebeck, New York, which is about 100 miles north of New York City, has been in bad shape for decades, ever since it was abandoned in the 1950s after a...
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La Manuela Hacienda Ruins in Guatape, Colombia
Everyone needs a place to get away, and violent cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar was no exception. The spot he chose was on the shores of the Peñol Reservoir in the idyllic resort town of Guatapé. There,...
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Church of Andrew the Apostle in Vasilyevo, Russia
In the middle of Lake Vuoksa, about two hours north of St. Petersburg, sits a small stone island that just barely rises above the waters. The island is so small that it is almost entirely taken up by a...
View ArticleWatch Early Rotoscoping Turn Cab Calloway into the Ghost of a Walrus
This Fleischer Studios cartoon from 1932 opens on a live-action shot of Cab Calloway and his band, with the bandleader performing his iconic boogie.The toon takes its name from one of Calloway's most...
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Willebrord Snellius' Grave in Leiden, Netherlands
There is a church in Leiden called Pieterskerk, or the Church of St. Peter. It’s a 900 year old Gothic beauty, the oldest church in this small city half way between Amsterdam and The Hague. It’s also...
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The Mystery of the State Department Spokesman Who Died And ... Kept Speaking
(Photo: JFK Library)A version of this story originally appeared on Muckrock.com.The year was November 1983, and the State Department needed to admit something pretty embarrassing.For two weeks, it...
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Hidden Wall of 1976 Graffiti in Manhattan, New York
Recent construction work on a skyscraper in Lower Manhattan’s Financial District unearthed a quite remarkable find; a wall of graffiti from 1976 that had been hidden behind another wall. The graffiti...
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After Over 20 Years Overlooking the East Village, Lenin Comes Down
Lenin, in his rightful place atop Red Square. (Photo: Pharos/CC BY-SA 3.0)To a casual pedestrian on Houston St., the southern border of New York's East Village, Red Square might not look much different...
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Someone Keeps Stealing Joan of Arc's Sword in D.C.
Is it a clue?! (Photo: Timothy Vollmer/CC BY 2.0) In news that might be a plot point from a Da Vinci Code sequel, a Washington, D.C. Joan of Arc’s sword has been stolen. As NBC Washington is reporting,...
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