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Five Fishermen Restaurant in Halifax, Canada
There is a seafood place near Halifax Harbour that was once home to the city’s oldest mortuary. It’s now the Five Fishermen Restaurant, but was once Snow & Company Undertakers, who tended to the...
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Found: An Ancient Groundcherry That Proves Nightshades Are Older Than We Think
Among the world’s plants, the nightshade family is one of most prolific and most useful. Among its 2,500 species are some of the humanity’s favorite foods (potatoes, peppers, eggplants, tomatoes) and...
View ArticleWatch a Melodramatic Communist Ballet from 1964
During the Chinese Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and '70s, traditional performances like the Peking opera were denounced as bourgeois and classist. In their place, Mao's wife, Jiang Qing, introduced...
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World's Largest Cuckoo Clock in Schonach im Schwarzwald, Germany
The cuckoo clock in Triberg-Schonach chimes twice an hour. Each time, the call comes from pipes 13 feet long. This is the world's largest cuckoo clock, a distinction its held since 1997. It has become...
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Abandoned Annie Lytle Elementary School in Jacksonville, Florida
Built in 1915, this gigantic schoolhouse was originally christened as Public School Number Four, but was renamed Annie Lytle Elementary in 1957 in honor of a former principal. Unfortunately, the school...
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Charming Portraits of Hong Kong’s Shop Cats
In late 2015, photographer Marcel Heijnen was walking around his new neighborhood of Sai Ying Pun in Hong Kong. Although a long-time resident of the city, he was new to this particular area, and he...
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Blood Pancakes Are The Most Metal of All Flapjacks
A balanced breakfast is an important meal in just about every society in the world, but not many of them require a blood sacrifice. If that is the sort of thing you’re looking for, though, feast your...
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Infinity Climber in Jersey City, New Jersey
The first suspended climbing space of its kind, the Infinity Climber is a cantilevered climbing space of 64 petal-like platforms encased in 19 miles of hand-threaded wire mesh suspended 35 feet above...
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Found: A 90-Year-Old Live Grenade Sitting in a Museum Closet
A museum in Tel Aviv discovered that it had been hiding a 90-year-old grenade that was still active.The Haganah museum tells the story of the Jewish underground army that became the Israel Defense...
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Kelleher Rose Garden in Boston, Massachusetts
A hidden gem tucked beyond Boston’s downtown parks, the James P. Kelleher Rose Garden dates back to 1931 and features over 1,5000 roses behind its tall green yew hedge in the Back Bay Fens. Despite its...
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Grave of George Swanson in Irwin, Pennsylvania
George Swanson loved his 1984 Corvette so much, he made a promise with his wife that he be buried in it. In the historic Brush Creek Cemetery near Irwin, Pennsylvania, Caroline Swanson made sure that...
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For 15 Years, New Orleans Was Divided Into Three Separate Cities
In 1803, when the United States bought New Orleans, along with the rest of the land in the Louisiana Purchase, the city had only about 8,000 people living in it. Planned on a tight grid, the city...
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Capitol Air Conditioning Towers in Washington, D.C.
There are two unmarked stone towers on the western slope of the Capitol Grounds. Overshadowed by the Capitol dome and downplayed by blocking shrubbery, most people walk by without noticing them. These...
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How a Blind Doctor's 'Moon Code' Helped Thousands Read Again
At first glance, the unfamiliar alphabet above, pressed into the page beneath our own, seems a bit opaque. With its streamlined swoops, angles and dashes, it appears to belong elsewhere—like writing...
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World's Tallest Lincoln Statue in Ashmore, Illinois
In the "Land of Lincoln" stands one of the world's tallest Lincoln statues. He stands at an impressive 72 feet tall, towering over nearby trees and buildings. While Abraham Lincoln was a tall, thin man...
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Museum of Old and New Art in Berriedale, Australia
Built into a cliffside in southern Tasmania, the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is a four-story collection of some of the most crude and bizarre sculptures and machines imaginable. MONA is often...
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Two Danish Polar Bears Are Getting Divorced
The ice in the Copenhagen Zoo's Arctic Ring is cold, but the gossip is hot: as the Local reports, one of Denmark's sexiest polar bear couples is breaking up. Ivan and Noel, two of the exhibit's main...
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St. Omer Cemetery Witch Grave in Ashmore, Illinois
Driving along one of many county roads in the miles of Illinois cornfields, a gravel road will lead you to the town of St. Omer, or what's left of it at least: its cemetery. The ghost town might have...
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Spiagge Bianche (White Beaches) in Rosignano, Italy
Most beaches in Italy are distinctly Mediterranean, featuring darker water and rocky cliffs, but on the western coast of the country there lies a stretch of white sand alongside a bright hue of...
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The Wedding Cake House in Kennebunk, Maine
This house was built in 1825, by George W. Bourne, a prominent 19th-century shipbuilder who constructed his vessels on the Kennebunk River directly behind the home. It has won the distinction as the...
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