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Striking Vintage Photos of Houston's Early R&B Scene
Club Matinee, Houston, 1957. (Photo: © Benny Joseph/Courtesy International Center of Photography)The work of midcentury photographer Benny Joseph is the subject of a captivating new exhibition called...
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The Fursuit of Happiness Begins With Customized Dog Abs
Before they are furries, fursuits are a bit scary. (Image courtesy of Mischief Makers)Who do you turn to when you're in dire need of a plush full-body suit that will make you look like a cartoon dog?...
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Burger King Navajo Code Talkers Display in Kayenta, Arizona
The world's best exhibit on the Navajo Code Talkers is located in a Burger King in Kayenta, Arizona.In World War II, the U.S. military had a problem. Every code they developed was broken by Japanese...
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Exit Interview: The Tailor Who Handmakes Fort Ticonderoga's 18th Century...
Fort Ticonderoga's "artificer tailor" in clothes he sewed himself. (Photo: Gibb Zea)You wouldn't imagine a military installation from the 1700s to need a tailor, either then or now, but it does. Gibb...
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FOUND: Glowing Eels
Glowing eel! (Photo: Gruber et al/PLOS ONE)While working underwater off the coast of Little Cayman Island, southwest of Cuba, biologist David Gruber accidentally took a photo of an amazing creature. It...
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E.W. Marland Mansion in Ponca City, Oklahoma
Leave it to an ingenious billionaire/governor/congressman/oil magnate to take a quarry's worth of rocks and reshape it into one of the Southwest's most over-the-top palaces. The Roaring 1920s adhered...
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Fleeting Wonders: New World Records for Parallel Parking and Roundabouts
Oral Sands and a friend en route to setting a world record. (Photo: screen shot)It’s a phenomenal time for world record and auto enthusiasts. Recently, two monumental records were set, one for the...
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Your New Favorite Honey Is Made Out Of Bug Poop and Bee Vomit
A honeybee at work. (Photo: Peter Shanks/Flickr)In this age of food scares and secret adulterations, when what you put in your mouth is a chemical facsimile of what it’s purported to be, good news: the...
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Kewpee Hamburgers in Lima, Ohio
One of the country’s oldest fast-food burger chains, Kewpee Hamburgers, once had hundreds of restaurants throughout the Midwest – and their crazy square burgers maybe helped inspire one Kewpee lover to...
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Bettie Page House in Seattle, Washington
There were countless pinup models, too many to count, but only one could pose in the naughtiest of bondage shots and still be just cute as a button.There was something so very special about Bettie. As...
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The Zombie Bus Scam That Just Won't Die
A "ghost bus" parked in the Atlantic City Transportation Center. Some reincarnating carriers paint their buses white so that it's easier to switch them between companies. (Photo: Anonymous/Used with...
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How Worried Should We Be About Space Junk Crashing to Earth?
Space debris seen from outside geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO). The two main debris fields are the ring of objects in GEO and the cloud of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO). (Photo: NASA/Public...
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Morden Mine Tipple in Nanaimo, Canada
This concrete skeleton nestled in a provincial park is the only remaining coal tipple on Vancouver Island.The discovery of the Douglas coal seam in 1849 resulted in an explosion of mining activity in...
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San Michele de Murato in Murato, France
Legend has it that the villagers of Murato woke up one morning to discover that a church had been built by angels. Looking at the strange, delightful San Michele de Murato, that’s actually not too hard...
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Great Polish Map of Scotland in Eddleston, Scotland
Sitting just off to the side of Scotland's Black Barony, a hotel that was formerly known as Barony Castle is what appears at first glance to be a field of low-lying boulder covered in lichen and moss,...
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Dunnottar Castle in Aberdeenshire, United Kingdom
Looking out to the North Sea, this beautiful castle, set on a cliff south of the town of Stonehaven, evokes a distinct connection with the site - you can almost see the Viking ships chopping the surf,...
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Overcome Your Arachnophobia By Cuddling a Spider at the London Zoo
(Photo: tmorkemo/Flickr)Every autumn, the turning of the leaves heralds the emergence of the spiders. This is the time of year when arachnids, like many humans, wander in search of warmth and...
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You’ve Visited 100 Countries? Join the Club
On the road in Kyrgyzstan. (Photo: Pamela Barrus)“You know, you think of Siberia as a frozen wasteland, but in the summertime all of that melts because the sun is pretty far north and all the frozen...
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The Abandoned Village of Bara-Hack in Pomfret, Connecticut
Down an old cart path in the woods of the Ragged Hills section of Pomfret, Connecticut, lie the remains of the small community of Bara-Hack. Although it was abandoned over 125 years ago, this "village...
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The Forgotten Midwest Craze for Building Palaces Out of Grain
Not all Corn Palaces were quite so grand. (Photo: Stuhr Museum of the Prairie Pioneer)In 1890, Forest City, Iowa, built a palace–not of stone, or wood, or brick, but of flax.There was, one visitor...
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