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Lawrin Gravesite in Prairie Village, Kansas
Lawrin - the only Kansas-bred horse to ever win the Kentucky Derby - was buried on his home farm beside his sire. Nowadays, the tiny equine cemetery is the only piece of the farm that remains.Lawrin...
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Kastrup Sea Bath in Kastrup, Denmark
What with sharks, eels, giant squid, under toe, and only Satan knows what else, swimming in the ocean is not recommended. However if you must, you might want to do it in the futuristic wooden confines...
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Brestovac Sanatorium in Zagreb, Croatia
Hidden in the woods of Zagreb, Croatia, the remains of an old tuberculosis hospital have crumbled away into a haunting ruin. From sanatorium to military hospital to paintball arena, the Brestovac...
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How the Military Ran Its 1970s Psychic Intelligence Program—Many Memos,...
The DIA's 1984 memo (Image: National Security Archive)For decades during the Cold War and into the 1990s, the United States military ran a program that used "psychoenergetics"–psychokinesis, telepathy,...
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Barboursville in Barboursville, Virginia
The historic mansion known as Barbourville once belonged to wealthy American lawyer, Governor James Barbour, but ever since fire destroyed the home in 1884, it has sat as a protected ruin in the back...
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The First Planned Parenthood Only Lasted For 10 Days But Started a Revolution
Mothers wait outside of America's first birth control clinic. (Image: Library of Congress)It's been a particularly difficult week for Planned Parenthood, which has had to contend with a mass shooting...
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The Sex-Obsessed Poet Who Invented Fascism
Gabriele d'Annunzio reading. (Photo: Public Domain/WikiCommons) It can be hard to reconcile the incredible charisma of Hitler written about in history books with recordings of his speeches in which he...
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Wallaby Ranch in Fall City, Washington
A trip to the Fall City Wallaby Ranch is like visiting a weird paradise populated by cuddly, bouncing freaks where both the animals and your hosts have your emotional wellbeing in mind. Located on an...
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Fleeting Wonders: A Rat Snake in a Courthouse
An Eastern rat snake, blissfully unaware of the million-dollar lawsuit it's caused. (Photo: John Mikesell/WikiCommons CC BY-SA 3.0)Hopefully there aren’t too many ophiophobes in the jury on the day...
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FOUND: A 17th Century Map Stolen from a Library by a Notorious Art Thief
A copy of the map, from France's National Library (Image: Wikimedia)In 1612, the French explorer Samuel de Champlain mapped what Europeans then called "la Nouvelle France"—New France, the part of North...
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Wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery in Minster on Sea, United Kingdom
In 1944 an American war ship loaded with supplies and explosives never made it to her destination. Bound for Allied-controlled territory in France, a side-trip to join up with a shipping convoy – and...
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The Hidden World of Tenement Fortune Tellers in 19th Century Manhattan
A crowded street scene on the Lower East Side, 1909. (Photo: Library of Congress)In 1993, a restoration was underway at 97 Orchard Street in New York City. Beneath the darkened floorboards of one...
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Jiaohe Ruins in Turpan, China
On the outskirts of Turpan, a small city in Xinjiang, China, you’ll find the ruins of the ancient city of Jiaohe, dating back 2,300 years.Xinjiang is an autonomous territory set apart from the rest of...
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Why Exactly Did the Vikings Flee Greenland?
A majestic fjord on Greenland's Baffin Island, once home to equally majestic Vikings. (Photo: Public Domain/WikiCommons)Sometime around the 10th century AD the Vikings traveled north to settle in...
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Catoctin Furnace in Thurmont, Maryland
In the early 1770s, Thomas Johnson discovered an abundant source of hematite on the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland. However, the iron-bearing ore was not of much use without a place to smelt it, so...
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Abandoned Puerto Azul in Ternate, Philippines
In its heyday, the Puerto Azul Golf and Country Club in Ternate, Philippines was a lush pleasure destination where people from around the world came to take in the tropical amenities on offer. But...
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Cosmic Moose and Grizzly Bear’s Ville in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Most fences are simply put up to keep people out, but Cambridge, Massachusetts resident Peter Valentine has turned his home's perimeter into a sounding board message board for all of his cosmic musings...
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The Abandoned Village of Occi in Lumio, France
Sitting on a picturesque French hilltop, the ruins of the medieval village of Occi are all that's left of a small settlement that had to abandon their perfect view when the water ran out. In the Middle...
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Fleeting Wonders: Send Holiday Cheer To an Island-Bound Schoolboy
The Out Skerries post office is facing some busy days. (Photo: Dr. Julian Paren/Geograph CC BY-SA 2.0)Aron Anderson has been called "Britain's Loneliest Schoolboy." The only adolescent on the tiny...
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Zoro Garden in San Diego, California
Peeping toms will be sadly disappointed to find that the Zoro Gardens within today's Balboa Park are a mere shadow of the former glory that once existed among the lush, sunken beds beneath their...
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