Watch Sheets of Paper Turn into a Topographical Map of Lake Baikal
Enjoy watching the process of creating my new piece Lake Baikal | hand-cut paper, blue film, foam board | 11" x 14" x 1.5" |#art #artist #paper #texture #paperart #paperartist #papersculpture...
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12 Chamber Pots You Can Buy Right Now
We all know and dread the feeling. The sharp pang felt in the middle of the night that tells you your body needs relief right now. You lie in bed, trying to make sense of the world in that stage...
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Chicago's Greatest New Year's Day Tradition Is a Car Rally Scavenger Hunt
On New Year's Day, if you pass by the parking lot of Chicago's Adler Planetarium around 11 o’clock in the morning, you’ll come across a surprising collection of cars and drivers readying themselves to...
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How Racism Was First Officially Codified in 15th-Century Spain
In 1449 rebels in Toledo, Spain, published an edict you’ve probably never heard of, but whose effects still resonate today. It was the first set of discriminatory laws based on race. You probably know...
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The Old Patent Model Museum in Washington, D.C.
Before the National Portrait Gallery requisitioned the space in 1962, this beautiful room was the Old Patent Office model hall. Inventors used to have to submit working models along with their patent...
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Victorians' Christmas Parlor Games Will Leave You Burned, Bruised, And Puking
Most of the Christmas traditions we take for granted today are Victorian inventions: Christmas trees, Christmas stockings and Christmas carols didn’t exist much before the 1840s. Yet while these are...
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Take a Journey Into One of the World’s Most Impressive Map Collections
In 1851, Edward Stanford published an unusual map of London. It looks south across the capital, and depicts a landscape undulating with details: streets, canals, parks and of course, the twisting...
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Found, Underwater: One of Canada's Earliest Gardens
It’s not exactly Atlantis, but archaeologists have discovered what might be the oldest example of a garden ever found in the Pacific Northwest.According to Science, archaeologists discovered the garden...
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Leuk Charnel House in Leuk, Switzerland
Beneath an unmarked cellar door in a 15th century church lies a dark, secret, osteological oddity.Leuk is a small town in Switzerland's Rhone Valley mostly known for the thermal spa to the north, but...
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George Washington Memorial Parkway in Arlington, Virginia
The George Washington Memorial Parkway was one of the first high-speed roadways designed specifically for automobiles in the United States. It’s significant both as a beautiful piece of landscape...
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The Great Harvard Pee-In of 1973
In 1973, a group of outraged female Harvard activists took to the steps of the school's historic Lowell Hall and poured out jars of fake urine. The powers that be really should have let them use the...
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Glacier Republic in Natales, Chile
As climate change progresses, glaciers worldwide continue to melt, and Chile, which holds 82% of South America’s glaciated land, is no exception. In addition to warming temperatures, the glaciers of...
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How a Team of Reenactors Helped Solve a Revolutionary War Mystery
In June of 2014, archaeologist Meg Watters led a team of five Revolutionary War reenactors through a forest in Minute Man National Park, on the edge of Lexington, Massachusetts. It was damp out, and...
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WWII Bomb Discovery Sparks Christmas Evacuation
Yesterday, construction workers in Augsburg, Germany, unearthed a holiday surprise—a 3.8-ton bomb, dropped on the city by Britain during World War II and still primed to explode.In response,...
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The Seely House in Mamaroneck, New York
A walk along Grand Street in Mamaroneck is much like a walk along any other street in the suburbs around New York City. That is until you reach number 175. Known as the Seely House, it has the same...
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Dr. Rafael M. Moscoso National Botanical Garden in Santo Domingo, Dominican...
Named after the accomplished Dominican botanist who cataloged the considerable range of plant life of Hispaniola, the Dr. Rafael M. Moscoso National Botanical Garden was founded in 1976. Covering 400...
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The Complicated, Inconclusive Truth Behind Rat Kings
On the top floor of the Otago Museum in Dunedin, New Zealand, where there are taxidermied circus lions, a tooth from the largest species of shark to ever have existed on Earth, and delicate glass...
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Little Istanbul in Sala, Sweden
Outside of Sala, a small town in southern Sweden, there is some decidedly un-Scandinavian architecture. Minarets, domes and ornamental arcades dot the landscape of a miniature version of Istanbul, as...
View ArticleWatch a Guy Hit 240 Consecutive Green Lights in New York City
It took Noah Forman about 26 minutes to accomplish, but earlier this month, he achieved a personal driving goal: hitting 240 consecutive green lights in Manhattan, which he says is a record. Forman had...
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Ice Castles in Lincoln, New Hampshire
On the grounds of the old Hobo Railroad in the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire, there are caves, tunnels, fountains, slides and sculptures made of icicles. They call them Ice Castles, kind of...
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