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The Teen Girls Who Talked to the Dead
Margaret, Kate and Leah Fox. (Photo: Public Domain/WikiCommons)It was nearing midnight in late March 1848 when two young girls, Katie and Maggie Fox, cried out to their parents from their shared...
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How A Fungus And A Tree Translated Underground Hugeness To Mainstream Success
A smaller specimen of Armillaria pokes its caps aboveground. (Photo: Dan Molter/Mushroom Observer CC BY-SA 3.0)In the late 1980s, a couple of biologists working near a logging site in Michigan’s Upper...
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Mahabat Maqbara in Junagadh, India
Along a busy road in the heart of Junagadh city lies one of India's least-known, yet most jaw-dropping architectural oddities. A smashing blend of Gothic and Islamic ornamentation, the Mahabat Maqbara...
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The Pioneer Memorial Museum in Salt Lake City, Utah
Walking through this museum feels like rummaging through all the long-forgotten junk in someone's grandmother's basement ... that is, if it were an enormous and well-organized basement. The Pioneer...
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Chimi Lhakhang in Punakha, Bhutan
In general Buddhism is associated with serenity, peace, and beauty, and Bhutan's Chimi Lhakhang monastery is no different, it just has a lot more penises. Also known as the "Fertility Temple," the...
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The Manhattan Burial Crisis of 1822 Makes Every Cemetery Today Seem Amazing
"View from Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn," 1881, by Rudolph Cronau. (Image: Public Domain/WikiCommons)The 300-year-old graveyard at Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan today serves as a respite from the...
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The Lowdown on the Lowline, the World's First Underground Park
A rendering of the completed Lowline. (Image: Kibum Park/Raad Designs/Flickr)An MTA official walked up to the inconspicuous metal gate on the Essex St. subway platform one winter day in early 2009....
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Glorious Posters From the Golden Years of the London Tube
This Is All In The Air, Montague B Black, 1926. (All Photos: Courtesy London Transport Museum)In 1908, the very first Underground logo, known as a roundel, was introduced at St James’ Park station. It...
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Why Every Horror Film of the 1980s Was Built On 'Indian Burial Grounds'
A scene from film version of Pet Sematary, where the cemetery in question was, of course, built on Indian burial ground. (Photo: Still from DVDizzy)In 2006, Family Guy aired an episode entitled...
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Why It Was Faster To Build Subways in 1900
Opening day ceremony for the first subway line at City Hall, October 27, 1904. (Photo: Courtesy of the New York Transit Museum)When New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck lifted the first shovel...
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle's Eagle in Brooklyn, New York
The main entrance to Brooklyn’s Central Library at Grand Army Plaza is quite remarkable. An imposing 40-foot-high doorway of shining bronze, it is decorated with glittering Art Deco likenesses of...
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FOUND: A Dying Star Gobbling a Broken Planet
An artist's image of the star's meal (Image: Mark A. Garlick/Nature)One day, the Sun will become a white dwarf star. All its mass will collapse into an area about the size of Earth, but so much more...
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Yellow Creek Nuclear Power Plant in Iuka, USA
This strange structure near Iuka, Mississippi was a billion-dollar mistake.In a fit of optimism, the Tennessee Valley Authority (T.V.A.) commissioned a whopping 17 new nuclear power plants in the late...
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Zemplén Archives in Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary
The town of Sátoraljaújhely near the Slovakian border houses the county of Zemplén’s archive – one of a few of its kind in Hungary – that contains not only old and valuable documents, but retains a...
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Fleeting Wonders: A Chance to Buy a Wicked Bible
The offending error. (Photo: Bonhams)If you're extremely wealthy and extremely corrupt, get your credit cards ready—because next month, for one day only, you'll have a chance to buy a Bible that tells...
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Marcos Museum and Mausoleum in Batac, Philippines
Chased out of the country he ruled with an iron fist in 1986, the lifeless body of Ferdinand Edralin Marcos returned to his homeland in the Philippines in a casket. Upon arrival it was transferred to a...
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See Photos from the Stunning San Francisco Coal Mine That Hasn't Been Opened...
Looking north toward the Marin Headlands through a small portal. (All photos by Sierra Hartman)Two hundred feet down the cliff from Deadman’s Point lies an exposed coal vein that, according to the coal...
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Margaret's Grocery and Market in Vicksburg, Misssissippi
Located smack-dab on Bob Dylan's famous Highway 61 just north of Vicksburg, Mississippi and her floating casinos, you will run across the ruins of an assemblage of Hallellujahdom that was Margaret's...
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Ali and Nino in Batumi , Georgia
Westerners are all familiar with the tragic tale of Romeo and Juliet, but how about Ali and Nino, the doomed lovers that inspired the colossal automated statue named after them, which now stands by the...
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