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The Grand Canyon Luxury Suite That Is Also A Cave
The Underground Cavern Suite. (Photo: Courtesy Grand Canyon Caverns) Usually, the word “cavernous” wouldn’t be the highest praise you could pay a hotel room—adjectives like “cozy” or “luxurious”...
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Fleeting Wonders: The Longest Game of Pinball
The world's longest pinball game was just played on a Twilight Zone machine. (Photo: Carsten Frenzi/Flickr) British Columbia resident Eden Stamm just broke the Guinness World Record for the longest...
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Hudson River State Hospital in Poughkeepsie, New York
The hospital, located in Poughkeepsie, New York, is a former New York state psychiatric hospital that operated from 1871 until its closure in 2003. When it first opened, it was called the “Hudson River...
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Rollright Stones in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
The Rollright Stones, a trio of neolithic limestone monuments that were erected to mark ritual sites. But according to local legend, and the names of the specific sites themselves, the stones are...
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When Plants Attack Unborn Cows
A western juniper tree (Photo: Kurt Thomas Hunt/Wikimedia)Western juniper trees don't seem like they'd have it in for cows. They're shrubby, squat, thick-trunked conifers that grow in the Pacific...
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Photos of Historic Bonsai Masterpieces
Japanese White Pine, in training since 1625. (All photos: © Stephen Voss)There is a Japanese white pine bonsai tree that is nearly 400 years old at the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum in Washington...
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Pizza Ovens That (Almost) Never Cool Off
A modern Neapolitan pizzaioli tends an old-fashioned Neapolitan pizza oven. (Photo: Glenn MacLarty/Flickr)Humans have basically always loved pizza. The ancient Egyptians ate flatbread with toppings....
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Why Doesn’t Tennis Have a Single Professional League?
Qatar Open, Doha. (Photo: Kate/flickr)These days, most casual tennis fans know the sport by knowing its superstar international players: Serena Williams, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, and Maria...
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FOUND: An Ancient Megamouth Shark
A modern-day megamouth (Photo: FLMNH Ichthyology/Wikimedia)100 million years ago, a prehistoric shark swam the shallow waters around what's now Russia. A group of scientists found a collection of this...
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Fleeting Wonders: A Vlogging Gorilla
The Ugandan mountain gorilla, imploring you to go easy in the comments section. (Image: YouTube video screenshot)Somewhere in the mountain forests of Uganda is a three-year-old ape with a flair for...
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Why Does the Australian Flag Still Have a Union Jack?
Canada's flag, pre maple leaf. (Photo: Josh Graciano/Creative Commons)When the British Empire established dominion over half the world, the Union Jack became a ubiquitous presence. Whether flown as a...
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Old Warner Bros. Theatre Inside Downtown Jewelry Exchange in Los Angeles,...
If you squint you at the diamond on the Downtown Jewelry Exchange you'll notice its shape looks an awful lot like the Warner Brothers shield.That's because the former Warner Bros. Downtown Theatre is...
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Stone & Man in Qaqortoq, Greenland
All through the Greenlandic town of Qaqortoq, carved into boulders and lichen-covered rock faces, are carvings of whales, faces, and other traditional designs. Together these stoneworks are a citywide...
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San Francisco Bay Discovery Site in Pacifica, California
During the very first recorded in-land European exploration of what we now consider California, a Spanish expedition crested a ridge and beheld San Fransisco Bay for the first time. While they did not...
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Dar al-Hajar in Sana'a, Yemen
While it may not be the Black-Forest-European-Fairytale-style construction that most Westerners consider when they think of a castle, Yemen's Dar al-Hajar palace, built atop a tall natural rock spire...
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Hajmáskér Barracks in Hajmáskér, Hungary
In a country full of beautiful old castles, from a distance the pointed towers of Hajmáskér's tallest building make it easy to mistake for a palatial palace in the middle of the Hungarian countryside....
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FOUND: A GoPro That Went to the Edge of Space And Got Lost for Two Years
What the GoPro saw (Photo: chanmnb/Imgur)In June 2013, after months of planning, five friends launched a GoPro to the edge of space. They attached the camera to a weather balloon, along with a phone...
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Kim Davis, William Franklin, And Others Who Picked The Wrong Revolution
Men gather outside the National Anti-Suffrage Association headquarters in 1911. (Image: Harris & Ewing/Library of Congress Public Domain)This morning—having spent the past week hopping between a...
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Fort Frederick in Big Pool, Maryland
Many forts have bloody, savage histories. But Fort Frederick did its job for America, without ever seeing action.The British built the fort near the Potomac River in Western Maryland at the start of...
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