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We Asked a Vexillologist How to Design a Great National Flag
The United States of America's flag is iconic, important and more or less timeless. We are extremely proud of its design, and we are very attached to the story of Betsy Ross sewing it.But let's take a...
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The Nearly-Solved Mystery Behind the Missing Corpse of One of the Richest Men...
On the morning of November 7th, 1878, Frank Parker, the assistant sexton of Saint-Mark’s-Church-In-The-Bowery noticed a pile of fresh dirt at the center of the graveyard.The flat tombstone beside the...
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Investigating the Mystery of One of America's Most Endangered Bees
A version of this story originally appeared on bioGraphic.com.In 1998, a UC Davis entomologist named Robbin Thorp explored the forests of southern Oregon and northern California, hoping to learn more...
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How A Fake British Accent Took Old Hollywood By Storm
If you’ve ever seen a movie made before 1950, you’re familiar with the accent used by actors like Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and Ingrid Bergman: a sort of high-pitched, indistinctly-accented way of...
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The Stone Circles at Odry in Odry, Poland
Stone circles appear throughout history and across many cultures, including these in Portugal, Ethiopia, the Golan Heights, and even Massachusetts. Some of the more obscure, and least understood, are...
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Collégiale Sainte-Croix de Liège in Liège, Belgium
Placed in the center of the city, the Collégiale Sainte-Croix de Liège (Holy Cross College of Liège) was intended to be a religious and civic point of focus when the town was an important station of...
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Cammino di San Tommaso Fountain of Wine in Villa Caldari, Italy
At the end of the Cammino di San Tommaso, a 196-mile pilgrimage from Rome to Ortona, Italy, are the relics of St. Thomas the Apostle. It’s a long, thirsty walk to get there. If only there was a water...
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Was it Hershey or Reese That Made Peanut Butter Cups Great?
The Indigo Girls sing about them, Run DMC raps about them, artists draw them. Their Facebook page has over 12 million likes. They’ve been mixed into cocktails, baked into pies, and stuffed into...
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Camera Obscura at the Alcazar of Jerez de la Frontera in Jerez de la...
The Alcazar of Jerez de la Frontera is a Moorish palace built in the 11th century. It's a very nice palace, complete with a vaulted mosque, a system of wells, elaborate gardens filled with fragrant...
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Precious Moments Chapel and Gardens in Carthage, Missouri
You know those sweet little Hummel figurines that you may have found around your grandma's house? Well, America has it's own home-grown version, created by Samual J Butcher, known as Precious Moments....
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Hungerford Footbridge Skateboard Graveyard in London, England
If you cross the Thames River on the downstream side of the Golden Jubilee Bridges, you will pass the curious skateboard graveyard where broken boards are laid to rest—or rather, thrown to rest, as the...
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European Museum of Modern Art in Barcelona, Spain
One of the lesser known museums in Barcelona, the European Museum of Modern Art, Museu Europeu d'Art Modern aka "MEAM" packs a punch with some of the most skillful artists from our recent generations...
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Leinster Gardens False Facades in London, England
When the London Underground was being constructed in the 1860s, rather than tunneling under existing buildings, deep tunnels were dug right through the city and then covered up again. But not all of...
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Secret Apartment in the Fort Washington Library in New York, New York
The downstairs of the Fort Washington branch of the New York Public Library feels big and bright, with tall ceilings and sweeping windows meant to keep the building light and cool. The bottom two...
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In 1961, Roald Dahl Hosted His Own Version of 'The Twilight Zone'
Roald Dahl was many things. A fighter pilot, a renowned author, a spy. But few people know that he was also the host of his very own Twilight Zone–style sci-fi/horror anthology show, Way Out, a macabre...
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Lester Ghost Town in North Bend, Washington
Cross a closed bridge, hike two miles deep into the forest, and you'll find Lester, or what's left of it.It was founded as a town for workers, not necessarily a family village, though a little...
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Found: The Original Walls of the Cave Where Jesus Was Buried
Inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, there’s a large rotunda, with stories of arches flying high. At the center sits a small, freestanding structure called the Edicule, which contains the slab...
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The Forgotten Halloween Games That Predict Who You'll Marry—And When You'll Die
If sticking your face in a barrel filled with cold water and trying to grab an apple with your mouth seems a touch sadistic for a casual game, then you're really not going to like its sister pagan...
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There's Only One State Embassy In Washington. Of Course, It's Florida's
In 1960s, a station wagon full of overtired Florida children looped endlessly around Washington, D.C.'s bewildering traffic circles. The campground where they'd planned to stay was gone. The car made...
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Adam's Calendar in Ehlanzeni, South Africa
In 2003, South African pilot Johan Heine was flying over the hills of the gorgeous Mpumalanga region of South Africa when he crashed his plane into the mountainside. After exiting the plane, Heine saw...
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