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How 'All the President's Men' Defined the Look of Journalism on Screen
We live in weird times, when the press ranks almost as low as Putin in national polls yet reporters in TV and movies can still be heroes. The 2015 film Spotlight, which dramatized the work of The...
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Temperance Fountain of Washington, D.C. in Washington, D.C.
In the late 19th century, Dr. Henry Cogswell, a wealthy dentist from San Francisco and a proponent of the prohibition of alcohol, had an idea. He believed that if people had access to free, cold water,...
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Overly Smiley Man Sues France Over Passport Photo
In this painting by Hans Holbein the Younger, two Frenchmen demonstrate appropriate neutral expressions. (Photo: Public Domain)Getting a new passport or ID can be exciting. Maybe you're beginning a...
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Ladybug Building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Officially it’s the Milwaukee Building, but since 1999 few have called it that. Back then, looking to help shake some of the drab off of its downtown office towers, the city of Milwaukee went on a...
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Lovely Hidden Paintings Adorned the Edges of Historic Books
Spider monkeys from a fore-edge painting on The Natural History of Monkeys (1838). (Photo: Courtesy of The Swem Library)While you don’t see them very often these days, fore-edge paintings were once...
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Weissensee Abandoned Children's Hospital in Berlin, Germany
An empty, tumble-down, sprawling complex sits amidst handsome new apartment buildings in Berlin's Weissensee neighborhood. Though an intrigued passerby probably wouldn't guess it, this crumbling...
View ArticleReykjavik Turned Off Its Street Lights to Watch the Northern Lights
About yesterday 🌌✨ #reykjavikA photo posted by belakarsai (@belakarsai) on Sep 28, 2016 at 11:31pm PDTLiving in Reykjavik, the northernmost capital in the world, has its perks, including, of course,...
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Berliner Unterwelten - Subterranean Berlin in Berlin, Germany
It's a strange feeling to come into a dark, half-blasted bunker, see parts of stairways and cables hanging out of the wall and walk through rubble in between holes that go several meters down into the...
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Deni Ute Muster in Deniliquin, Australia
Despite being one of the coolest cars to hit American streets, the Chevrolet El Camino didn't quite take off in terms of popularity. By contrast, coupe utility vehicles became common Down Under—common...
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The Mysterious Siren Behind Mexico City's Junk Collectors
La Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City, where La Llorona is likely to be heard. (Photo: Keizers/CC BY-SA 3.0)There are many reasons to fall in love with Mexico City, but among the most understandable...
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Goldie 1971 - The Fallen Robot in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
When the Sloss Blast Furnaces closed in 1971 the site had been an anchor of Birmingham’s industrial life for nine decades. As one of the South’s largest manufacturers of pig iron, the obsolete hulk...
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The Once Glamorous Salton Sea is Now Rife With Toxic Dust and Dying Fish
Abandoned pier on the Salton Sea, California. (Photo: Hank Shiffman/shutterstock.com)In the Imperial Valley of California’s southeastern desert is an unexpected, almost oasis-like sight: a vast saline...
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9 Amazing Things Disguised as Boring Things
Narnia hid behind a wardrobe. Doctor Who's Tardis was disguised as a blue police call box. With no signage and no flags, these out of the ordinary things are hidden away disguised as something utterly...
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A Frog from Panama Just Went Extinct
(Photo: Brian Gratwicke/CC BY 2.0)The Rabbs' fringe-limbed treefrog wasn't discovered until 2005, and only named three years later, but now the last known Rabbs' fringe-limbed treefrog is dead.Toughie...
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Ossuary Chapel of the Cathedral of Otranto in Otranto, Italy
In the heat of summer, 813 Christians huddled in the crypt of their local cathedral. They took the eucharist and waited to be sawn in half by the Turks attacking their village. What's left of them is...
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If There is a God, This Facebook Post By a Cop Looking For Clowns Will Go Viral
From the world's best clown police post. (Courtesy Rolla Police Department)Whether it's because it's an election year, or because hysteria's tend to take on lives of their own, clowns, this year, have...
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Strangely Captivating Vintage Photos of People Knitting
In 1915, the manager of the New York Philharmonic Society’s Concert Hall had a unique problem. There had been some unusual disturbances during performances, and to address this, he included a notice in...
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Found: An Underwater Cave 1,325 Feet Deep—A New Record
Hranická propast, the Hranice abyss (Photo: Jiří Komárek/CC BY-SA 4.0)Krzysztof Starnawski, a diver from Poland, found the cave in 1999. Even back then, he knew it was an unusual cave: the water made...
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The World's Deepest Rail Station Will Be Built Underneath the Great Wall of...
It can't protect against underground trains. (Photo: Marianna/CC BY 2.0)Walking across the top of the Great Wall of China is a classic tourist go-to, but soon enough, traveling under it may be just as...
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Videocassette Dating Let Singles Fast-Forward to Love
Imagine: it's 1976, and you're a busy professional living in LA. You're also single, and looking, but it isn't working. You've been on dozens of first dates, and gamely accepted every introduction...
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