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The Hanbury Crater in Staffordshire, England
The military accident that created the Hanbury Crater on November 27, 1944 was, at the time, the largest non-nuclear explosion ever to have occurred in the world. It occurred when some 3,500-4,000...
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Kunta Kinteh Island in Albadarr, The Gambia
This island, formerly named James Island was an English slave fort on the mouth of the Gambia river. Today it's a powerful reminder of the evils of the slave trade, and particularly of Britain's...
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Inside the Strange Sport of Paramotoring, in Which Competitors Risk Life and...
Risk is a part of everyday life. Even basic tasks, such as commuting to work or eating, involve a minimal amount of danger.Yet some people prefer activities that involve an inordinate amount of risk,...
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Pyramid Mausoleum at Abandoned La Boulaye Cemetery in La Boulaye, France
Happening across the strange pyramid in the woods of La Boulaye in the Saône-et-Loire Department of France, one wonders what it could be. As you get closer things get more strange, as a large...
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El Campello Moors and Christians Festival in El Campello, Spain
Moors and Christians festivals are common throughout Spain. They commemorate the 13h century struggle between Christian kingdoms to the north of the Iberian peninsula and the Moorish occupiers in the...
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Wir Waren Nachbarn (We Were Neighbors) in Berlin, Germany
The Wir Waren Nachbarn (We Were Neighbors) exhibition is a memorial for the Jewish residents of the Tempelhof and Schöneberg areas of Berlin. It tells the story of the people forced to flee Germany, or...
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Abbaye de Cluny (Cluny Abbey) in Cluny, France
Located in the Saône-et-Loire Departement in France, the Abbey of Cluny was one of the most powerful religious centers in the Middle Ages and has been deemed the founder of Western monasticism. Built...
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Picketwire Canyon Trackway in La Junta, Colorado
Picketwire Canyon is a shallow canyon in southeastern Colorado on El Rio de Las Animas Perdidas en Purgatorio or the River of Souls Lost in Purgatory. Within the canyon are the Delores Mission Ruins,...
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The Best Political Cartoon In History Is This Fake Banknote from the Panic of...
Blur your eyes, and the banknote above looks normal enough. It has the right proportions. It's covered in intricate line drawings, so as to discourage counterfeiting. It's got serious-looking slogans...
View ArticleA Map of Some of the Most Disastrous Elections in History
Democracy has never been a smooth path. Starting with the ancient Greeks and modified by ancient Romans, the idea of holding elections is still relatively new. After all, it wasn’t until fairly...
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Baja Film Studios in Playas de Rosarito Municipality, Mexico
Built as a set for the epic blockbuster Titanic, the Baja Studios production facility is built on 46 acres with more than 3,000 feet of oceanfront overlooking the Pacific Ocean near the Mexican resort...
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How a Forged Sculpture Boosted Michelangelo’s Early Career
If you’ve seen any of Michelangelo’s artworks in person, you have probably felt the same awe that millions of pilgrims to the Sistine Chapel have experienced, while staring up at his singular ceiling...
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Spon Street in Coventry, England
Spon Street in Coventry was an industrial area from at least the 12th century, when it was predominantly occupied by dyers who were forced to move to the edge of the city because of the fumes from the...
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Lose Yourself in 12 of the Most Extraordinary Labyrinths Ever Built
In Fontanellato, near Parma, Italy, 1.85 miles of bamboo spread across 17 acres of land to create the Masone Labyrinth. If you reach the center, you’ll be greeted by a plaza with a pyramid—assuming you...
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How to Make a Clock Tick
Shop the styles in this video: the Carleton, the Glancy, the Wheelwright, and the Beckwith. As unusual as it may be to see a centenarian grandfather or cuckoo clock these days, finding someone who...
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In Deadwood, Men Wore Fake Five Dollar Coins on Their Wrists to Show Off
In the 1880s, the U.S. Mint tried an experiment: it created a 5-cent coin, made of nickel, that featured the head of Liberty in its design. The nickel wasn’t the only coin at the time to feature that...
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Secret Grave in the Pylon of Severinsbrücke Bridge in Cologne, Germany
World War II left all the bridges over the Rhine in Cologne badly damaged, necessitating the building of new bridges across the river. During the construction of one such bridge, the Severinsbrücke, a...
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Please Tell Us About Your Panic Dreams
Whichever 2016 presidential candidate you support or don't support, we can probably all agree that this election is causing a lot, a lot, a lot of anxiety.With the election less than a week away and...
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The Animal Kingdom's Oddest Ways of Handling Anxiety
In 1646, scholar and polymath Athanasius Kircher took a break from inventing new projection devices and studying the blood of plague victims to try and hypnotize a chicken.Kircher held a hen down on...
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Inside the NSA’s For-Sale Spy Town
Last week, nearly two dozen potential buyers showed up for a remote open house in Sugar Grove Station, West Virginia. Unlike typical open house-goers, though, they weren’t planning to buy a home. They...
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