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First Ever Public Christmas Tree Marker in Riga, Latvia
When something happened over 500 years ago, it can be tricky to parse out fact from legend. Take the first ever Christmas tree. The custom of a decorated tree at Yuletide dates back centuries, to at...
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Slabsides in Highland, New York
John Burroughs, one of the great 19th century conservationists, wrote about his cabin in the woods, "Life has a different flavor here… It is reduced to simpler terms; its complex equations all...
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Jaime Duque Park in Tocancipá, Colombia
In a small Colombian town 30 minutes outside of Bogotá lies a giant, full-scale replica of the Taj Mahal, finished with four towering spires and a white bulb at the top. Virtually unknown to all...
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Leiðarendi Lava Tube in Iceland
Iceland is world famous for its glaciers, fjords, and beautiful landscapes, but few visitors to the Nordic island ever set foot underground. If you venture just 25 minutes outside of Iceland’s capital,...
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Whales Are Likely Behind the Mysterious Sound Coming from the Mariana Trench
Last March, scientists revealed they'd made an astonishing discovery: mysterious and, frankly, kind of terrifying sounds were coming from the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the world's oceans. At...
View ArticleFound: The Original Ad for the Nintendo Entertainment System
It took five years but I finally found it: the very first advertisement for what became the Nintendo Entertainment System, from late 1984! pic.twitter.com/6r4sv7vSst— Frank Cifaldi (@frankcifaldi)...
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Tumbleweed Snowman in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque is known for a lot of things, but heaps of snow is not one of them. So every year, to celebrate the holiday season, the Albuquerque Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control Authority builds an...
View ArticleThere's A Secret Underground Art Gallery In Canada Dedicated To One Bulldog
Zsu Zsi's legacy: Alberta bulldog inspires avalanche of Indigenous art https://t.co/Dmn8S8zY6gpic.twitter.com/qVhhxgQSnL— CBC Edmonton (@CBCEdmonton) December 20, 2016As the owner of Edmonton's...
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This Christmas, Jam a Candle in an Orange
Why is that orange speared with toothpick-candy-kebabs and a candle? It’s a Christingle. And it's intended to teach kids the importance of Jesus Christ.The tradition of the Christingle dates back to...
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How Millions Of Secret Silk Maps Helped POWs Escape Their Captors in WWII
Imagine it's 1942, and you're a member of Britain's Royal Air Force. In a skirmish above Germany, your plane was shot out of the sky, and since then you've been hunkered down in a Prisoner of War camp....
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Washburn Park Water Tower in Minneapolis, Minnesota
In the winding Tangletown neighborhood of Minneapolis, you might stumble upon an imposing cement structure, bedecked with eagles and sword-wielding knights. This 110-foot-tall dome, easily visible from...
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Bukit Brown Cemetery in Singapore, Singapore
While exact numbers are not available, an estimated 100,000 people lie buried within the 0.86 square kilometers (212 acres) that comprise Bukit Brown Cemetery. However, final resting places are not so...
View ArticleFound: A Lot of Terrifying Creatures From the Deep Sea, Thanks to This...
Roman Fedortsov is a deep-sea fisherman, working on a trawler based near the Barents Sea, according to the Moscow Times, and he has Twitter. As the Russian website Ruposters discovered, that...
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The Final Christmas of 4 Catskills Villages Flooded to Create Reservoirs
On November 3, 1955, anyone observing the east branch of the Delaware River, about two miles downstream from the New York town of Dunraven, would have been treated to an unusual sight: Katheryn...
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Stone Man of Bowman Family Crypt in Shrewsbury, Vermont
Driving south through the very small town of Shrewsbury, Vermont you come to the very, very small village of Cuttingsville. Here you will catch a glimpse of a mysterious larger-than-life marble man,...
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Grace Hopper's Bug in Washington, D.C.
The Smithsonian’s Museum of American History is one of the only places you can see a computer bug preserved for all posterity.On September 9, 1947, Harvard's Mark II Aiken Relay computer was...
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The Ten Bells Pub in London, England
The Ten Bells Pub has stood on the corner of Commercial Street and Fournier in one form or another since the mid 18th century. This dive bar likely would not have survived till today if not for its...
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See the Most Captivating Infographics of the Last Century
The first issueof National Geographic magazine, published in October 1888, was vastly different to the magazine we know today. It contained no photographs or illustrations. The cover was brown, with...
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Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada
Elko, a small town of 18,000 in a sparsely-populated stretch of northeastern Nevada, is the most populated city for 130 miles in all directions. Founded in 1868 along the Central Pacific Railroad, Elko...
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