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Grave of George Washington's Drummer Boy in Rochester, New York
Alexander Milliner, widely regarded as the drummer boy for General George Washington, is interred along with his family on the glacially swept plain of the Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York. His...
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Møns Klint in Borre, Denmark
For a country famous for never being more than 52 kilometers from the ocean, Denmark does not lack in beaches. However, Møns Klint is a beach unlike any other.Upon arriving, one is greeted by a thick...
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Westland Lysander at the Shuttleworth Collection in Bedfordshire, England
The Westland Lysander was a British aircraft used immediately before and during the Second World War. The Suttleworth collection holds one of the few flying examples in the world in the form which made...
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Longwood in Natchez, Mississippi
In a region of Mississippi rich with grandiose antebellum homes, one in particular stands out from the rest. Billed as the largest octagonal home in the United States, Longwood comprises six levels...
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Auberge Ravoux in Auvers-sur-Oise, France
The death of Vincent van Gogh in the early morning of July 29, 1890 has always been, and still is after more than 120 years, subject to speculation. Did the troubled painter kill himself or was he...
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Castelo dos Mouros (Castle of the Moors) in Sintra, Portugal
In 1147, the Moorish forces in southwestern Iberia surrendered a key piece of defensive real estate to the Christian forces led by Afonso Henriques: Castelo dos Mouros, or Castle of the Moors.Long...
View ArticleWatch Gelatinous Slime Mold Smartly Forage for Food
Slime molds may be more intelligent than you think. At least that’s what scientists are discovering in labs at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. These single-celled, yellow blobs seen above don’t...
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Inside Churchill's Secret Subterranean WWII Bunker in London
“All the world that is still free marvels at the composure and fortitude with which the citizens of London are facing and surmounting the great ordeal to which they are subjected, the end of which or...
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Panic in Comfort With the Modern Safe Room
Ever since the release of the 2002 movie Panic Room, in which Jodie Foster and Kristen Stewart play a mother and daughter taking refuge in their home's specially designed safe room during a burglary,...
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Sigurdsristningen (Ramsund Carving) in Eskilstuna, Sweden
The legend of Sigurd is a core component of both Norse and Germanic mythology (with the figure known as Siegfried in the latter), and is included in texts from the Poetic Edda to the Niebelunglied to...
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The First People to Push the Panic Button Were Korean War Pilots
On March 12th, 1950, a 23-year-old Air Force Lieutenant named William M. Guinther found himself in a tricky situation. He had just flown out of Otis Air Force Base in Falmouth, Massachusetts, and his...
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Manic Panic Isn't Just a Hair Dye Brand: It Was the First Punk Store in America
In 1977, Tish and Snooky Bellomo opened a store at 33 St. Marks Place, in New York's East Village. It was called Manic Panic, and as far as anyone knows, it was the first punk store in America. The...
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The Wunderkind Writer Who Disappeared Without a Trace at Age 25
New England, winter 1923. A little girl sits alone in her room, staring through the window at the woods behind her house. She daydreams as most children do, but then she goes to her typewriter and she...
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Noonday Gun in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Situated on a small enclosed site in the waterfront district of Causeway Bay, the Noonday Gun is a Hotchkiss three-pound artillery piece that is ceremonially fired every day at (appropriately enough)...
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Giant Snowballs Have Appeared on the Siberian Coast
Nature is getting ready for an epic snowball fight, and it looks like they’re stocking up ammo in Arctic Russia. According to the Siberian Times, villagers near the Gulf of Ob seem to have started...
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Former RAF Pembrey Airfield in Pembrey, Wales
The Pembrey airfield operated between 1937 and 1957 as a base for RAF Flying Training Command as well as Polish Hurricanes and Spitfires during World War II. But its greatest claim to fame came in 1942...
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Stanton Drew Stone Circles in Somerset, England
The megalithic complex at Stanton Drew in Somerset consists of three stone circles and a three-stone group known as "The Cove," dating back as far as 2000-3000 BCE. Although this is the third largest...
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Séance Room at Muriel's Jackson Square in New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans is no stranger to paranormal activity and or classic Creole fare. Muriel’s Jackson Square just happens to serve a generous helping of both.At this French Quarter restaurant, patrons dine...
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What Happens When Crowds Try To Flee For Their Lives
Early Sunday morning on January 27, 2013, the band Gurizada Fandangueira was playing to a packed house at the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria, Brazil. Hundreds of people, including many university...
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Abandoned Veterans Village at Westminster Ponds in London, Canada
Tucked away near the gigantic Victoria Hospital in the Westminster Ponds lies a forgotten gem of the London Health Sciences Center: a quaint village made just for the rest and recuperation of war-weary...
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