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Mount Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York
High up a winding set of stairs along a busy stretch of Eastern Parkway in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn sits Mount Prospect. It’s the second highest point in Brooklyn, and was used by Washington’s...
View ArticleFleeting Wonders: Sheets of Ice Melting in the Most Dramatic Ways
Ice Storm 2015 has started to melt. Power on, uverse not. #icestorm#mustang#oklahoma@reedtimmerTVN@KyleSalomonMNpic.twitter.com/HV9T8j7tMo— bbatter (@barbiereif) November 29, 2015Last week, central...
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Museum of Torture Instruments in Prague, Czech Republic
Humans are good at being bad to each other, and the artifacts of that cruelty are on display in this museum, which contains over 100 torture devices from medieval and early modern Europe.A short walk...
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Tubakuba in Bergen, Norway
When students at the Bergen School of Architecture were challenged with getting more children into the wild Norwegian woods, the solution they found proved to be as delightful as it is beautiful....
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Sandefjord Museum in Sandefjord, Norway
Located in Sandefjord, Norway, the Hvalfangst Museet or Sandefjord Museum claims to be Europe's only museum that is solely devoted to the study of and education about whales and whaling. Given the...
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Nachoochee Mound in Sautee Nacoochee, Georgia
The lovely grass-covered mound that sits on the former property of a Georgia governor looks like a picturesque hill where one might like to have a picnic, helped in no small part thanks to the quaint...
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C.S. Lewis’ Greatest Fiction: Convincing American Kids That They Would Like...
All illustrations by Matt LubchanskyTurkish Delight, or lokum, is a popular dessert sweet throughout Europe, especially in Greece, the Balkans, and of course Turkey. But most Americans, if they have...
View Article100 Wonders: The Desertron
If you happened to drive past the site of the Superconducting Super Collider in Waxahachie, Texas, you might mistake it for a rundown office park. In fact, it is the greatest missed opportunity in...
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The Global Christmas Tree Trade Starts With Helicopter Harvesting
Helicoptering firs into transport trucks for sorting and packaging. (Photo: Noble Mountain Tree Farm)Getting a Christmas tree from a farm in Oregon to a hotel in Dubai might seem like a hassle, but...
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What Did Abraham Lincoln Dream About? 9 Stories of Famous Dreams
Perhaps the most famous dream of all: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, as imagined by John Simmons in 1873. (Photo: Public Domain/WikiCommons)This is part three of a five-part series on sleep...
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Ole's Big Game Steakhouse and Lounge in Paxton , Nebraska
You can't eat them, but Ole's Big Game Steakhouse and Lounge in Nebraska is filled with moose, elephants, giraffe, elk, and countless other animals mounted on every flat surface. You might come for the...
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What Brits Talk About When they Talk About Pudding
A traditional Christmas Pudding, decorated with holly and set alight before eating. (Photo: James Petts/flickr)On the competition TV show The Great British Bake Off (which has recently exploded in...
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FOUND: Five Heart-Shaped Boxes With Five Actual Hearts Inside
One of the five heart reliquaries (Photo: Rozenn Colleter/Inrap)A recent radiological discovery has found that even noble hearts can be diseased.The story begins in Rennes, France, in 1369, when the...
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Stubble and Statecraft: How Beards Grew Political
In the back row on the right side, a young man wears his beard in the style favored by those who supported a united Italy: sideburns united by a strip beneath the chin. (Photo: Alfredo Calabrese...
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Fleeting Wonders: The World's Largest Gathering of Beatles Impersonators
Beatles impersonators at a gathering of inferior numbers in Liverpool in the late 1990s. (Photo: Green Lane/WikiCommons)Would the Fab Four be 73.5 times more fab if there were 290 more of them? Mexico...
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Boot Hill in Stanley , Falkland Islands
While "Assorted Footwear Hill" doesn't really have the same charm as "Boot Hill", it would be a more accurate description of the assorted shoes on stakes that litter this Falkland Islands hilltop.This...
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The Mystery Temple, A Famed Indian Mosque and the Debate that Won't End
The Bhagyalakshmi Temple sits at the foot of Charminar, a longtime symbol of the Hindus and Muslims here sharing the streets together. No one knows how old Bhagyalakshmi Temple actually is, or how it...
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SS Palo Alto in Aptos, California
The SS Palo Alto was one of three concrete tankers built in California to serve in World War I, but she was late to be finished and the war came to an end before construction did. Without any war duty...
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Jumpsuits: Heralding The End Of Fashion For A Century
White jumpsuits, military-style. (Photo: Library of Congress)The jumpsuit has two faces. One comes from world of culture and fashion, everything from Elvis in Vegas to Janelle Monae at the Met Gala....
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