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Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin
Who would you call if you had a wood-related question? The Forest Products Laboratory, of course. But, did you even know of its existence?The Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) was created in 1910, and...
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The Dazzling Designs for a New York That Never Existed
Architect Raymond Hood, once described as a “brilliant bad boy,” is celebrated for designing the Rockefeller Center, the Daily News Building and Chicago’s Tribune Tower, among others. But what about...
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The Strange Secret Behind the Tragic Deaths of Oscar Wilde's Half-Sisters
As a literary genius and master of wit, Oscar Wilde has fascinated the world since he first started writing. There is one area of his life, however, which remained in obscurity until the 1940s, and...
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Mapping the (Mostly) Sweet Scents of America's Candy Factories
In the middle of Main Street Cambridge's Central Square, squished between a UHaul and a pan-Asian restaurant, sits an anonymous, foreboding building. Its walls are graying and dingy, and its windows...
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Vinicunca (Rainbow Mountain) in Cusco, Peru
The peaks in the Ausangate mountain region of the Peruvian Andes are all uncommonly colored: Some are terra cotta, some lavender, others are a vibrant turquoise. They're colored by the sediment and...
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"Jigger" the Brownhills Miner in Brownhills, England
Brownhills is in the West Midlands on the edge of an area known as “the Black Country,” an identity earned through the soot, smoke and slag of its coal mines. In the middle of town there is a stainless...
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Why Brazil’s State-Sponsored Brass Bands Are Constantly Playing Phil Collins
The videos all start out the same way, with a shaky, grainy image of a group of musicians in uniform. The audience coughs and shuffles their programs until the conductor makes an announcement in...
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Brunel Museum in London, England
The Brunel Museum is a circular, squat, sea-foam building. But through its doors lies the dark world below London, the Thames Tunnel. An unprecedented feat of engineering ingenuity, the tunnel was home...
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V & E Simonetti Historic Tuba Collection in Durham, North Carolina
Vincent Simonetti began his tuba collection when he was touring with the Moyseev Ballet Company as their resident tubist. While in Boston, he came across a 1910 Cerveny halicon and knew he couldn't...
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Take a Tour of This Amazingly Decorated Halloween House
Halloween is just 10 days away, which means more homes are sporting pumpkins, tombstones, spider webs, and other creepy decorations. But the elaborate maze of ghoulish décor at this house in San...
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The Strange World of Political Handshakes
At last night's Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner—a strange electoral tradition where presidential candidates razz each other to benefit Catholic charities—Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton...
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Crich Stand in Derbyshire, England
During World War I the Sherwood Foresters Regiment of the British Army—the local regiment for Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, the two counties that contained the ancient Sherwood Forest—lost a...
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Luisenburg Rock Labyrinth in Wunsiedel, Germany
The story of the Luisenburg rock labyrinth in Wunsiedel, Germany starts 240 million years ago, when lava flowed into the mountainous area. After the lava solidified and crystalized, erosion began to...
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Highland Park Ford Plant in Highland Park, Michigan
The Model T, the first car available for sale to the general public, was a symbol of all the dawning 20th century had to offer. As Ford wrote in his autobiography, "I will build a car for the great...
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The Records the FBI Might Never Be Able to Find
A version of this story originally appeared on Muckrock.com.In order to preserve their value to the historic record, FBI files on prominent individuals and groups are routinely handed over to the...
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The Stalin Line in Minski rajon, Belarus
Not far from the capital city of Belarus is one of the most grandiose defense museums in Eastern Europe, the Stalin Line Historical and Cultural Complex, named after the original Stalin Line, a network...
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PIGMENT in Shinagawa-ku, Japan
In bustling Tokyo there is an alchemist's dream: thousands of pigments with names like "Autumn Mystery" and "Luxury Twinkle" line the neat, airy bamboo shelves of a store called PIGMENT.Pigment is dry...
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Angel Museum in Beloit, Wisconsin
In 1976, Joyce and Lowell Berg were on vacation in Florida when they saw two Italian angel figurines on a seesaw. This moment filled their hearts with a love for angels, and from that day forward the...
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Watch the Devil's Fingers Rising From the Underworld
Picture this: You’re out on the woods on a fair autumn afternoon when you’re stopped in your tracks by the horrific sight of the devil’s fingers emerging from the earth. Your mind flashes back to that...
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Skylodge in Urubamba, Peru
On an Andean cliff overlooking Sacred Valley, there are three ovular glass pods dangling from the rock face. They're not art, nor are they UFOs. They're hotel rooms.The "Skylodge" is owned by a tourism...
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