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The Photographer Who Captured Black Voters for Decades in Pittsburgh
Throughout the course of his prolific 40-year career, photographer Charles "Teenie" Harris amassed an extraordinary archive consisting of nearly 80,000 negatives. Starting in the 1930s, Harris...
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Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand
At the advice of a respected astrologer, the Erawan Shrine was built in 1956 around the same time as the construction of a nearby hotel to eliminate the bad karma believed to be caused by laying the...
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Custer Ghost Town in Custer, Idaho
Custer, Idaho is riddled with the hints of its former activity, like iron mining equipment rusted to a halt in overgrown grass and bullet holes in the poker table left after a skirmish.Custer grew out...
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How Our Make-Believe Relationships With Celebrities Shape Our Social Lives
Jaye Derrick has a special relationship with the television sitcom Friends. Years ago, she began to notice a recurring pattern: whenever she had a fight with her boyfriend she would turn on her...
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Watch a Player Piano Rock Out
Player pianos lend a whole new meaning to the phrase "ghost in the machine."Automated instruments date back to the early 18th century, but we generally associate player pianos with Old West saloons....
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Children in Spain are Going on a Homework Strike
Good luck, kids. (Photo: Ian Burt/CC BY 2.0)Three weeks into fall and already sick of homework? Spain may have a tactical answer. CEAPA, a kind of mega-PTA representing the parents of schoolkids across...
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Cabinovia Monte Capanne in Marciana, Italy
Riding the "cabinovina," or cable car, to the top of Monte Capanne is a unique experience, though not for the faint-hearted. Standing in what's essentially a giant open yellow bird cage, guests ride...
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Urnes Stave Church in Ornes, Norway
A cliffside Norwegian village is home to an old Viking church that has looked over the neighboring fjord for going on 900 years.Though this building has stood since around the year 1130, archaeological...
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Gila Cliff Dwellings in Magdalena, New Mexico
Often described as the "most beautiful" of the pre-Columbian ruins in New Mexico (not a small feat when one considers the abundance of ruins in New Mexico), these cliff dwellings are truly off the...
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The Year Hundreds of Bombs Went Off in New York City
The aftermath of the Wall Street bombing. (Photo: Library of Congress/LC-DIG-ggbain-31303)On Saturday, a bomb exploded in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, injuring dozens and, for a moment,...
View ArticleToddler Pulled Alive From Siberian Forest After 3 Days
Lost toddler survives three days in Siberian taiga alone https://t.co/Rkr67pb9SU#Siberiapic.twitter.com/76IlywgJms— The Gulf Today (@thegulftoday) September 23, 2016Russian authorities say that a...
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Lone Tree of Lake Wanaka in Wanaka, New Zealand
Framed by the South Island’s stunning Southern Alps, a lonely tree has grown up to spread it's wings just off shore at the south end of Lake Wanaka.Known as the "lone tree of lake Wanaka," it is said...
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A Guide to the 58 Crazy Different Terms for 'Water'
Considering that humankind has from the very beginning subsisted on, resided near and built civilizations around water, it’s not too surprising that English and other languages are overflowing with...
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Mortar Man in Charleston, West Virginia
Capitol Street in downtown Charleston, West Virginia is chock-a-block with beautiful old brick buildings. Tucked away between two of them there is a miniature man made of concrete, a tiny escapee who...
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The World Islands in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Dubai is famous for its luxurious Palm Islands, the easily recognizable manmade archipelago off of the city's coast. Based on the Palm’s success, Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Maktoum, envisioned an even...
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The Snail House in Sofia, Bulgaria
The Simeonovo neighborhood in the outskirts of Sofia, Bulgaria isn’t known as a hotspot for many tourists. Yet, hidden in the hinterland, there lives a gigantic snail whose flamboyant rainbow...
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Dafen Oil Painting Village in Shenzhen Shi, China
While Shenzhen is the undisputed capital of electronics manufacturing, tucked away beneath the towering skycrapers is a more unusual claim to fame, the capital of mass replica art manufacturing.Dafen...
View ArticleA Guide to the Real-Life Homes of the Heroes of Children's Literature
On this map, you will find the real world locations where the heroes of books you might have read early in life lived out their adventures. On the Upper East Side of Manhattan, just a few blocks from...
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Rocky Statue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
When the first “Rocky” movie was shot back in 1975 (released in 1976), they didn’t have a whole lot of money or a whole lot of time. The entire film cost just over a million dollars to produce, and it...
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Why Making a Better Umbrella Is Way Harder Than It Seems
The inside of an umbrella. (Photo: Ralph Hockens/CC BY 2.0)A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail.Umbrellas are a good...
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