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Gettysburg Dime Museum in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
The Gettysburg Dime Museum is a recreation of a 19th century dime museum. Loaded with oddities and curiosities, the museum exhibits a mixture of authentic and not-so-authentic artifacts leaving it to...
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Yenching Palace in Washington, D.C.
In its heyday in the 1960s and 70s, Yenching Palace was a landmark in Washington, D.C. Known for its iconic neon sign with the confusing backwards “Y,” it was frequented by celebrities and politicians....
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Predicting the Hottest Toys of the Year is Not All Fun and Games
Ever since the insane fervor surrounding Cabbage Patch Kids in the 1980s, or the Tickle Me Elmo doll in 1996, trying to predict what the hot toy of each holiday season is going to be has become an...
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North Korean Officials Had No Idea What Their Hostages Were Signaling in This...
The men in the photos look a little bored and awkward, maybe uncomfortable or even tense. The more you know about the photos, the more you read into them. But without context, what you see is young men...
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The Empty Tomb of Maximilian I in Innsbruck, Austria
Upon the end of his life in 1519, Emperor Maximilian I was obsessed with death. For five years, whenever he traveled he carried his coffin with him and left grotesque instructions of mutilation to his...
View ArticleWatch a Celebration of the Cult of 'Saint Death'
Santa Muerte is the unsanctioned folk saint of death within Mexican Catholicism. The icon has been condemned by the Catholic church as blasphemous.Perhaps because she is one herself, Santa Muerte is...
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Gas Works Park in Seattle, Washington
Gas Works Park rises above the north shore of Lake Union, a vaulted rampart of rusted towers and pipelines that serve as a testament to a bygone industrial age.Once a productive coal gasification...
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Glacier Bears of Glacier Bay National Park in Gustavus, Alaska
Bears come in many shapes, sizes, and colors. On their hind legs, they can be as tall as eleven feet or as short as four feet. Their bodies can be very round, very muscular, or very sleek. They can be...
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The Smugglers Who Hid Booze in the Home of Saudi Arabia's Top Religious...
In Saudi Arabia, Islamic law is sternly enforced—which means, of course, that alcohol is strictly forbidden. But as with any forbidden substance anywhere in the world, that means little behind closed...
View ArticleRare, Giant Shark Attacks Seal in Oregon River
Crabbers near Astoria, Oregon recently caught footage of what appears to be a Pacific Northwest reboot of Jaws. As seen in a video shared by Oregon’s NBC affiliate KGW, a huge shark has found its way...
View ArticleNo One Seems to Know Why This Plane Kept Circling Denver
Mystery flight circles over Denver; officials have few answers: https://t.co/Yph4dDZIZF#Denver#news#Colorado— Denver7 News (@DenverChannel) November 17, 2016A local news organization in Denver is...
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Rapa Pyramid in gołdapski, Poland
When you close your eyes and imagine mummies lying within pyramids, ancient Egypt is likely the first thing that comes to mind. But after visiting this strange and obscure pyramid outside the...
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Treasure of Villena in Villena, Spain
Villena is a medium-sized city in the province of Alicante, and anyone driving past on the Madrid-Alicante autovía cannot help but notice the 12th-century castle towering majestically over the town....
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Portico Library and Gallery in Manchester, England
The neoclassical gem that is Manchester's Portico Library collection began simply enough. Surgeon Michael Ward and his friend Robert Robinson were chatting one day around the year 1796 and felt...
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Techatticup Mine in Nelson, Nevada
Located in the arid Nevada hills, the Techatticup Mine once spat out enough gold and silver to inspire murder, treachery, and claim-jumping. Now it has been restored and is partially open to visitors...
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The Bizarre 17th-Century Dioramas Made from Real Human Body Parts
In 1689, on the canal Bloemgracht in Amsterdam there was a museum that showcased preserved anatomical specimens in a peculiar manner.Among jars of embalmed specimens, there were several startling...
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Alley Oop Soldier in Rome, New York
Just off the road in the town of Rome, New York, a unique relic of World War II can be found: A 10-foot-tall concrete Alley Oop statue. In the 1940s, the statue had been a mascot for Griffiss Airforce...
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Gold King Mine Ghost Town in Jerome, Arizona
In 1890, the Haynes Copper Company sunk a 1200-foot shaft into the middle of one of the richest copper deposits ever discovered. Much to their chagrin, they found no copper. Luckily, they struck gold...
View ArticleWatch and be Hypnotized by the Flow of Moving Paint
Memories of Paintings from Thomas Blanchard on Vimeo.We know what you’re thinking: “four and a half minutes of paint moving?” but trust us, once you start watching, you'll stop noticing the passage of...
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The Wildly Popular Colombian Soap Opera Even the Government Stopped to Watch
If you were to walk the streets of Bogotá at 8:00pm in 1994, you would have been confronted by a strange sight. The city, which at most other times is a constant bustle of traffic jams, street vendors,...
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