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National Ice Core Lab in Denver, Colorado
In Colorado’s Denver Federal Center, there’s a scientific storage facility where it’s always, always cold. The National Ice Core Laboratory is the repository for samples of ice sheets collected in...
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Thousands of Unlucky Geese Landed in the Toxic Berkeley Pit And Are Now Dead
Under normal circumstances, the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana, is not such a tempting landing spot for migrating geese. Its vast surface, half a mile wide and twice as long, is sometimes colored red...
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Why do Dwarves Sound Scottish and Elves Sound Like Royalty?
In the game Hearthstone, when the dwarven Innkeeper greets players with a hearty, "WELCOME to the Inn!" he sounds like he's channeling some cartoonish ideal of the Scottish accent. And he's not alone....
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Earth's 'Rarest Geological Sample' Could Tell the Future of Greenland's Ice...
It took five years to drill down to the bedrock beneath the sheet of ice covering Greenland. Down and down and down the exquisitely engineered drill went, through almost two miles of ice, until it came...
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Providence Athenaeum in Providence, Rhode Island
The Providence Library Company was founded in 1753 by a group of Providentians who wanted to read but could not afford to have books shipped from Europe on their own. Before the city had a public...
View ArticleWatch Faux Japanese Acrobats Perform Death-Defying Stunts
In Spanish director Segundo de Chomón's Les Kiriki, acrobates japonais ("The Kiriki, Japanese Acrobats"), French performers made up to appear Japanese nod their heads and wriggle into balanced...
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San Thome Basilica in Chennai, India
Boasting a towering steeple and an ornate interior with magnificent stained-glass windows, San Thome Basilica is an impressive bright white structure that dates back to 1893. It was constructed by...
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The First Movie About the Titanic Starred a Titanic Survivor
It can feel like modern Hollywood is too quick to make entertainment out of tragedy, but it turns out that’s always been the case. The first Titanic film was actually made in 1912—only a month after...
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Belgrade Aviation Museum in Surčin, Serbia
Located just outside of the city limits next to the Nikola Tesla Airport, the Belgrade Aviation Museum is notable first for its architectural value alone. A purpose-built museum, its modernist curves...
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The Popular Victorian Clubs That Yearned To Fill Europe With Hippos
On November 15th, 1877, a select group of dedicated people filed into the Reading Room of the New York Aquarium for their annual meeting. For the next few hours, they updated each other on the...
View ArticleMeet San Francisco Airport's New Welcome Pig
Pilot LiLou reported to her first duty at the SFO airport as part of the SF SPCA's #wagbrigade Got to cheer up the passengers on this rainy day! #lilou #sfpig #nobhillpig #aat #sfspca...
View ArticleTwo People Found a Brand New Island And Claimed It As Their Own
All hail Rosmic island!: We hereby name this island! https://t.co/yASCcixvEypic.twitter.com/4wInuWP56R— Blackpool Daily News (@blackpooldaily) December 7, 2016Earlier this year, at a spot north of...
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A Tour of Nevada's Natural Wonders
Nevada is known for its gorgeous deserts, but there's so much more to the western state. Early explorers of the Spanish Territory were blown away by the magnificent colors of Nevada's scenery, and...
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Haukadalur Geothermal Field in Iceland
The Haukadalur valley in southern Iceland has a regular floor show with just about everything going for it. It performs on time, it’s flashy, it’s ancient, and it won’t cost you anything. There are a...
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Saddam Hussein's Blood Quran in Baghdad, Iraq
A locked vault in a Baghdad mosque contains a Quran written in lovely, sweeping Arabic calligraphy which, if not for its ink, could be displayed in a museum. But this holy book was written in...
View ArticleSurvey: When Will You Open Your Christmas Gifts?
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The World's Most Accidentally Romantic Email Service
Ten years ago, Lenny Jones was in the throes of getting his Master’s in computer science at the University of Utah. It was the era of PS, I Love You (2006) and The Lake House (2007), movies that...
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Lost Lake in Sisters, Oregon
Every year, in the heart of Central Oregon's Cascade Mountains, there is a lake that mysteriously drains down a hole. It fills up to capacity each winter, quickly starts to drain every spring, and...
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The FBI File on the CIA’s 'Gentlemanly Planner of Assassinations'
A version of this story originally appeared on Muckrock.com.Many would say that Richard Helms was a stand-up sort of guy; his mom, his neighbors, his friends, even his ex-wife, all attested to his...
View ArticleSee What Your Blood Looks Like Under a Microscope
Blood. The mere mention of the word is enough to make some people feel faint. Most of us associate it with terrible cuts resulting from bad kitchen accidents, or with Halloween and slasher films. In...
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