Clik here to view.
The 10 Iconic Cemeteries That Made Death Beautiful
By the 19th century, church graveyards had a worse reputation than you might expect. In addition to their general doom and gloom, they were rife with body snatching, gambling, and prostitution. Add to...
View ArticleWatch This Record-Breaking Diver Take You Under the Ice
Johanna Under The Ice - NOWNESS from NOWNESS on Vimeo.“My leg was so badly broken, they thought I might lose it.”So begins this visually hypnotizing short documentary by British director Ian Derry....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India in F-3 P-2, India
In 1942 a British forest guard in Roopkund, India made an alarming discovery. Some 16,000 feet above sea level, at the bottom of a small valley, was a frozen lake absolutely full of skeletons. That...
View ArticleThe Definitive Map of America’s Creepy Clown Epidemic
The interactive map above tracks over 100 clown sightings and threats across America, beginning in early August. This map will be updated as more clown activity happens. The first American "creepy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bat Poop Has Turned These African Cave Crocodiles Orange
Orange, but still deadly. (Photo: Olivier Testa/The Abanda Expedition)It’s not easy being green, or orange for that matter. According to New Scientist, explorers in Gabon’s Abanda cave system have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dugout Dick Memorial in Salmon, Idaho
In 1948, after more than a decade on the road and riding the rails, Richard Zimmerman got an idea. Working along the banks of Idaho’s Salmon River, fishing and doing some small-scale mining, he figured...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dallas Police Release Training Materials for Its Now Infamous Bomb Robot
(Photo: Public domain)A version of this story originally appeared on Muckrock.com.On July 7, the Dallas Police engaged Micah Xavier Johnson in a 45-minute gun battle before ultimately sending in a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Center of the Universe in Tulsa, Oklahoma
The Tulsa Center of the Universe is a worn concrete circle, approximately thirty inches in diameter, within the middle of another circle made up of thirteen bricks. Overall, the center is a little more...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Do You Remember Candle Cove?
TO GRIND YOUR SKIN! (Photo: Youtube/Syfy)Does Candle Cove sound familiar? That old children's show with the sinister talking boat, and the skeleton, The Skin-Taker? It aired on the local channel in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Clown Hysteria Has Spread to Australia
Clowns. They're everywhere. (Photo: Kevin Utting/CC BY 2.0)America’s sinister clown trend has spread to Australia. According to the Telegraph, sightings of creepy clowns are on the rise around the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Scottish Police Arrest Road-Crossing Chicken
We are sinners all. (Photo: Matt Davis/CC BY 2.0)Chickens have done many bad things. For example, they yell every morning at sunrise. There is no need for this anymore at all, and yet they continue to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Glorious Symmetry of Hong Kong’s Streetscapes
In a densely populated city of over seven million people, it can be hard to gain a sense of space and calm. Not so for Hong Kong photographer Kyle Yu, whose architectural images on Instagram provide an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Found: A 1,600-Year-Old Oven With Food Still Inside
A smaller, modern version of the same sort of oven. (Photo: timquijano/CC BY 2.0)Sometime around 400 A.D., in a place now called Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, someone started making a meal. They dug a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Boiling River of the Amazon in Puerto Inca, Peru
Hidden in the dense jungle of the Peruvian Amazon is a percolating, roiling river. The steaming turquoise waters that can reach up to 200 degrees Fahrenheit are guided by ivory-colored stones and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Colombia's Biggest Murder Investigation Was Swayed by a Dream
Memorial to Luis Andres Colmenares Escobar, the victim of the Colombia's most famous murder mystery. (Photo: Pedro Felipe (Own work) CC BY-SA 4.0) It reads like the perfect Agatha Christie novel. A...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why It's Impossible to Know a Coastline's True Length
Puget Sound from the sky, as seen this past winter. (Photo: EcologyWA/Public Domain)Imagine, for a moment, that you and your friend have been given a seemingly straightforward task: to measure the...
View ArticleWatch Pumpkins Get Launched By a Massive Slingshot and Trebuchet
Across the United States during autumn, there are fields that turn into a war zone of pumpkin pulp. The orange mulch is the mark of pumpkin chucking (also called punkin chunkin for rhyming reasons)....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ali Sadr Cave in Ali Sadr, Iran
With a network of channels, lakes, and watery passageways spreading out over several kilometers, Ali Sadr Cave (غار علی صدر) is one of the largest subterranean water complexes in the world. Stable...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Territorio de Zaguates (Land of Strays) in Costa Rica
Over one million stray dogs roam Costa Rica. This is both unsafe for humans and the dogs, and the numbers tick higher and higher every day. The country has criminalized euthanasia, opting to simply...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Inside the New York Public Library's Last, Secret Apartments
There used to be parties in the apartments on the top floors of New York City's branch libraries. On other nights, when the libraries were closed, the kids who lived there might sit reading alone among...
View Article