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Penny Hot Springs in Carbondale, Colorado
Sure, you know about Glenwood Hot Springs Pool, but that's for tourists and takes a lot of pennies. The Penny Hot Springs 30 minutes south is for those in the know, and is absolutely free.The Penny Hot...
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The Naked Ladies in Twickenham, England
"The Naked Ladies" are a group of unusually posed statues, comprised of eight sea nymphs carved from white Carrara marble atop a rock garden. One naked lady stands atop two horses, while her companions...
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'Tree Man' Is No Longer 'Tree Man'
For years, Abul Bajandar had massive growths on his hands, which were actually warts, but looked like branches from a tree. This led to Bajandar being dubbed "Tree Man," in addition to a lot of...
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Martha Matilda Harper, the Greatest Businesswoman You’ve Never Heard Of
Nearly 30 years before Helena Rubenstein and Elizabeth Arden launched their beauty brands, a former servant girl from Canada created the American hair salon industry, designed the first reclining salon...
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The Complaints the FCC Got Over This Year's World Series Coverage
A version of this story originally appeared on Muckrock.com.FCC complaints released to Allan Lasser regarding the 2016 World Series offer a grab bag of umbrage, including this rage against the tape...
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The World's Most Beautiful and Unusual Chess Sets
In 1923, the year after the founding of the Soviet Union, the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) produced a unique chess set. Since originating in sixth-century India, chess...
View ArticleFound: The Tiny, Century-Old Headstone of a Pet Bunny
Sid Saunders, 73, was walking through Marline Wood, in East Sussex, England, when he come upon a “bit of concrete just poking out of the undergrowth,” as he told the Hastings Observer. He found the...
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Grmeč Monument to the Revolution in Bosnia and Herzegovina
In the former Yugoslavia, under the "Benevolent Dictator" Josip Tito, a number of monuments, or "spomeniki," were constructed in the late '60s and early '70s. They are futuristic, brutalist, and tell...
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Kashgar Livestock Market in Kashgar, China
The famous livestock market just outside of China's westernmost city has met every Sunday for thousands of years. A crucial hub on the Silk Road, Kashgar has served as an oasis and trading post between...
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Grave of Bert Barrett’s Left Arm in San Jose, California
The most notable grave in San Jose's Hacienda Cemetery is not that of an entire person, but his limb. Specifically, the left arm of a man named Richard Bertram Barrett. While Barrett's left arm was...
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Hairy-Legged Vampire Bats Were Caught Feeding on Human Blood for the First Time
When a neighborhood changes, the food options do, too. Hole-in-the-wall joints become, say, avocado-toast emporiums. Whole bodegas go organic.Right now, no one knows that better than the hairy-legged...
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Chachersk Airplane in Chachersk, Belarus
The small town of Chechersk is isolated on all sides because it sits within the area contaminated by fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Nevertheless, right in the middle of town there is one...
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That's No Alien Megastructure, It's a Star Consuming a Planet
Last year Tabetha Boyajian, an astronomer now working at Louisiana State University, published a paper about a star that had something strange blocking its light. The Kepler telescope had captured the...
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Potomac Park Flood Levee in Washington, D.C.
These stone walls by the Washington Monument aren’t a part of any memorial or historic structure. They’re part of a temporary dam that can span 17th Street and hold back a 100-year flood. The dam is...
View ArticleWatch Planes Try to Land in the World's Windiest City
Wellington, New Zealand is considered to be the windiest city on the planet. This is good for the local wind turbines and dramatic hair-blowing photoshoots, but not so great for passengers aboard...
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Inside Brooklyn's 'Soviet Style' Underground Boxing Gym
The Underground Boxing Gym in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, has all the usual accoutrements of a traditional fighters’ gathering place: a ring, some heavy bags, dumbbells, mirrors, pull-up bars, and old...
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Boston Terrier Museum in Floydada, Texas
In 1991, 20 years after “AJ” came into their lives, Bob and Frances Hambright started their canine treasure hunt. AJ was the couple's first pet Boston terrier, but he wasn’t their last. Four more...
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Predicting the Weather With Shark Oil
Hanging outside the homes across Bermuda are little vials of fluid that are the locals’ secret to predicting the island weather. Or so they say.Bermuda has a long tradition of using shark oil as a...
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Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic
The 12,000 headstones in the Old Jewish Cemetery are crumbling and covered with ivy, toppled and clustered together.This was not Prague's first Jewish cemetery, but it is the oldest surviving in the...
View ArticleFound: A 400-Year-Old Buddha Statue, Hidden Under a Manmade Lake
In China's Jiangxi province, in the country's southeast, a hydropower renovation project has revealed a centuries-old statue of the Buddha, his head peeking just above the water.The statue was...
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