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When Giant Sequoias Were Sacrificed for Traveling Sideshows
During the second half of the 19th century, when traveling sideshows were all the rage, the so-called wonders of the world were taken from city to city to be gazed upon by spectators aching to see...
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Five Landmarks of Atomic Nevada
When the threat of nuclear weapons loomed during the 1950s, a whopping 928 atomic tests were performed in Nevada, mostly in Yucca Flat, a desert drainage site set aside by the U.S. government as the...
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You Can Apply Now to Be an Apprentice Globe Maker in London
If you have a steady hand, an eye for detail, and a love of latitude and longitude, Bellerby and Co. would like to hear from you. The London-based company is one of the world’s few remaining...
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Grave of Fredric J. Baur in Cincinnati, Ohio
Fredric John Baur may not be a household name, but he did invent something almost universally recognizable: the Pringles can. Having secured the patent for the famous tubular container for the...
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Tina Turner Museum in Brownsville, Tennessee
While driving from Nashville to Memphis there is a bit of musical history that's not to be missed. In Brownsville, Tennessee an old blacks-only schoolhouse has been restored and turned into a museum...
View ArticleA Lot of Money Has Been Raised to Build a Statue for a Supermarket Cat in...
In Saltney, which lies on the northwest border of England and Wales, there was, until recently, a cat that might greet you in the aisles of the local Morrisons, part of a chain of British supermarkets....
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Midas Ghost Town Saloon in Midas, Nevada
In June of 1907, prospector James McDuffy struck gold in north central Nevada, leading to the immediate creation of the mining town of Gold Circle. Over the next few years, the town became filled with...
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Found: Tiny Grains of Rock That Reveal a Lost Continent
By the standard of land on Earth, the island of Mauritius is quite young. Rocks found on the island are no more than 9 million years old, a fraction of the age of rocks on large continents, which date...
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Elsecar Beam Engine in Elsecar, England
The village of Elsecar, like many villages in Northern England, once relied almost completely on the mining of iron and coal for its economy. It’s a tradition that Elsecar is proud of, and works hard...
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Cedar Rapids Municipal Island in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
The landlocked state of Iowa is not the place you'd expect to find one of the few cities in the world to base their government on an island. Yet this tiny island in the middle of the Hawkeye State is...
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Feral Bunnies Are Taking Over Las Vegas
In early 2015, Dave Schweiger, a longtime Las Vegas resident, came home from work to find his teenage daughter sitting on the lawn, surrounded by six bunnies. These weren't the dun-colored jackrabbits...
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Ruins of St Dominic's Catholic Church in D'Hanis, Texas
The town of D'Hanis was the third settlement founded by Henri Castro, a Alsatian employee of the Texas Congress charged with populating the desert with European immigrants. He named the village after...
View ArticleWatch Two Guys in China Duel With Fireworks
Not a scene from @HarryPotterFilm: Two guys launch firework fight during the Spring Festival pic.twitter.com/mJqye2QoxV— People's Daily,China (@PDChina) January 31, 2017We're living in crazy times, and...
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Ishkashim Border Market in Ishkashim, Tajikistan
Crossing the border from Tajikistan to Afghanistan is often highly dangerous or outright impossible, but in Afghanistan’s panhandle-shaped Wakhan Corridor anyone can freely cross the border even...
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Exit Interview: I Was a Black, Female Thru-Hiker on the Appalachian Trail
The first person to hike the full length of the Appalachian Trail, a white man named Earl V. Shaffer, wanted to “walk the Army out of his system.” That was in 1948. Since the 1970s, when 775 hikers...
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Officials Have Given Up Looking for an Escaped Bobcat in D.C.
When Ollie, a seven-year-old female bobcat housed at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C. escaped on Monday, there was some alarm.Bobcats are not known to be aggressive to humans, but 13...
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Maharishi Vedic City in Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa
Southeast Iowa may be one of the last places you'd expect to find a Transcendental Meditation-themed town. Yet it is here that the Maharishi Vedic City was established in 2001. Though it is Iowa’s...
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When the NSA Thought Mind Control Would Be an Actual Military Concern
A version of this story originally appeared on Muckrock.com and Glomar Disclosure.Last week, we looked at the early days of the CIA’s foray into extrasensory espionage. Today we’ll be following up with...
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Olšany Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic
For a cemetery created in the hectic panic of a plague epidemic, Prague's sprawling Olšany Cemetery is a beautifully planned public work.In the 17th century it was considered unhygienic to bury the...
View ArticleWatch a Lot of Giant Chimneys Collapse Around the U.S.
Some people just want to watch the world burn. Others are happy to look at chimney demolition videos online.Controlled Demolition, Inc., an implosion subcontractor based in Phoenix, Maryland, maintains...
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