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Pet Cemetery Cenote in Tulum, Mexico
The remains of dead animals, tossed into the bottom of a cave away from the light of day who-knows-how-long ago, have resurfaced in a most unexpected way.Deep in the jungle outside Tulum, Mexico,...
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Fleeting Wonders: Chinese Farmers Build Enormous, Golden Mao
Visitors dwarfed by the huge Mao. (Photo: HNR.cn)A village in Tongxu county, China, recently completed a pretty overwhelming passion project: a 15-story golden statue of Communist leader Chairman...
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Wycliffe Well in Davenport, Australia
Wycliffe Well in Australia's Northern Territory claims to be the UFO capital of Australia. And if you listen to the Sun Herald newspaper and Time Magazine, they are ranked in the top UFO spots of the...
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Dildo, Newfoundland in Dildo, Canada
Let's just get it out of the way. Yes. The town's name is really Dildo. And dammit, if the locals have anything to say about it, their town will continue to be called Dildo, no matter what naysayers...
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An Afternoon with a 14-Foot Python Covered in Cash, Believed to be a...
The Burmese python in her cage in front of a crowd. (All Photos: RJ Vogt) At the end of a dirt road that twists along Bago River in the old Myanmar capital of Bago, just a 90 minute train ride from...
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Scythian Neapolis Ruins in Simferopol, Crimea
Driven south by the Sarmatian tribes, the Scythians hung their hats on the banks of the Salhyr River near the end of the 3rd century BCE, hoping to enjoy their new empire for centuries to come. They...
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Portico Library and Gallery in Manchester, England
The neoclassical gem that is Manchester's Portico Library collection began simply enough; surgeon Michael Ward and his friend Robert Robinson were chatting one day around the year 1796 and felt...
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Autódromo de Sitges-Terramar in Sant Pere de Ribes, Spain
The Roaring Twenties were the last time the Sitges-Terramar race track heard the roar of engines. It opened on the 28th of October 1923, but a failure to pay the construction workers for an unforeseen...
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The Manmade Marvel of the Baltimore Sewers
Filters at the Back River sewerage plant in Baltimore, 1973. (Photo: NARA)In 1909, Baltimore's sewer system was nearing completion and the local press was in a tizzy, proclaiming it an “unexcelled...
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Photos Of The World's Water, Expressing Itself In Breathtaking Ways
Cotacotani Lake in Chile. (All Photos: © Bernhard Edmaier, 2015)Between Argentina and Chile, across 5,000 frozen square miles, lies the Southern Patagonian Ice Field. It’s home to numerous glaciers,...
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Shocking Scenes From Benjamin Franklin's Experimental Electricity Parties
Franklin flies his fateful kite–while angels that look suspiciously his younger self repeat some of his earlier electrical experiments in the background. (Image: Benjamin West/Philadelphia Museum of...
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L.O.V.E. in Milan, Italy
New York celebrates the power and the optimism of Wall Street with a statue of a charging bull in the Financial District of Manhattan. Milan, on the other hand, is a bit more disillusioned about the...
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FOUND: Two Black Holes, One Too Skinny, The Other Too Fat
The arrow points to the skinny black hole (Image: Hubble/Chandra/UC Boulder)As NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory orbits the Earth, astronomers have been using it to look at X-ray sources from black...
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Fleeting Wonders: A 3D-Printed Moon Town
A possible design for the Moon Village. (Image: Foster & Partners/European Space Agency)As NASA and Elon Musk plan far-flung missions to Mars, the European Space Agency wants to stick a little...
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Da Shuhua in Tangshan Shi, China
Sometime in the 12th century, the Chinese gave the world the gift of fireworks. Despite these jaw-dropping spectacles of aerial magic being appreciated by all, the pyrotechnics remained the provenance...
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Today, the World's Eyes Are On This Large British Puddle
An intrepid puddle-crosser. (Image: Drummond Central/Periscope)At approximately 6 a.m. EST on January 6, 2016, an advertising agency in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England set up a livestream of the puddle...
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The 44 Most Wondrous Places to Visit in 2016
Inside Salina Turda, a salt mine in Romania. (Photo: Gabriel Tocu/WikiCommons CC BY-SA 4.0) Where would you like to go exploring in 2016? The options are overwhelming, but we're here to help—Atlas...
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Phil Lynott Statue in Dublin, Ireland
Best known as the frontman for the band Thin Lizzy, Phil Lynott’s too-short life has been memorialized by a life-size bronze statue erected in central Dublin, just outside one of the famed bass...
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Exploring the Forgotten Art Deco Artifacts of the New Yorker Hotel
Couples dance in the Terrace Room of the New Yorker Hotel, from a 1930s hotel brochure. (All historical photographs: Courtesy of the Hotel New Yorker Archives)New York is famous for its historic,...
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We are Living in the Golden Age of the Goatee
A triple portrait of Charles I by painter Anthony Van Dyck. Both men helped popularize the goatee in the 17th century. (Photo: Public Domain/WikiCommons) This year's Golden State Warriors basketball...
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