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Fleeting Wonders: A Turtle's-Eye View of the Kenyan Coast
A member of the Watamu Local Ocean Trust releases a Hawksbill turtle back into the ocean. (Photo: Stuart Price/Make it Kenya)The Watamu Local Ocean Trust in Kenya has cared for and rereleased over 250...
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Sammezzano Castle in Reggello, Italy
An overlooked Italian marquis left behind one of the finest examples of Moorish Revival Architecture in the world… yet only a handful of people each year get a chance to bask in its glory.Located in...
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FOUND: Two New Mountain Lion Kittens
The two new kittens (Photo: National Parks Service)Researchers in the Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California, have been running a long-term study on the area's mountain lion population since...
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Beatles Monument in Yekaterinburg, Russia
Rock & roll's influence on Russian youth culture was big, bold, and brash from the very beginning, and it only grew as the impact of pop music and 1960s counter-culture grew in the West – led in...
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100 Years Ago, American Women Competed in Intense Venus de Milo Lookalike...
Venus as painted by Henri-Pierre Picou. (Image: Wikipedia)In February 1916, two prestigious northeast American liberal arts colleges engaged in a spirited war of words, goaded by the media. The...
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Moncton Tidal Bore in Moncton, Canada
Meandering peacefully across New Brunswick, the Petitcodiac River is, for the most part, a totally normal river. But twice a day, in the area around Greater Moncton, things get weird.Tidal bores are a...
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Hiran Minar in Ranikay, Pakistan
Jahangir was a Mughal emperor who, like all good Mughal emperors, loved to hunt antelope. He also loved his cherished pet Mansraj (meaning "Light of the Mind") who was an antelope. Something was bound...
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The 1962 Laughter Epidemic of Tanganyika Was No Joke
This looks like the good kind of laughter. It's not always this way. (Photo: CC Tanzania)A laughter epidemic sounds like a welcome neighborhood contagion. But laughter is not so simple. It seems that...
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The Salem Witch Hangings Site Pinpointed; Looks Out on Walgreens Parking Lot
An 1892 lithograph by Joseph E. Baker depicting a more fanciful interpretation of the Salem witch trials. (Photo: Public Domain/Wikipedia Commons)New for 2016: the exact location of the 1692 Salem...
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Who is Filming NYC Subway Videos From the Conductor's Chair?
A harrowing moment from "The Queens-bound 7 Line." (Image: DJ Hammers/YouTube)Stressed out from your long subway commute? Chill out with a calming video of a long subway commute. A mysterious YouTuber...
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Cruger-dePeyster Sugar Mill Ruins in DeLand, Florida
New Smyrna Beach is the second-oldest city in the state of Florida. As early as 2000 BCE, Timucuan Native American populations thrived in the area until widely being wiped out by war and diseases...
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Hanlon's Corner Cemetery in Mississauga, Canada
A tiny Victorian era cemetery is hidden in plain view at the corner of two major trucking thoroughfares— Britannia Rd. East. and Dixie Rd. in current day Mississauga, outside of Toronto.Once a small...
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Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel in Chattanooga, Tennessee
At the turn of the 20th century, Chattanooga was a bustling hub of transportation. Industrial growth in the city led to overcrowding in its train stations, and in 1909, Terminal Station was opened to...
View ArticlePhoto of the Week: Car-Powered Sledding
Children on sledges pulled by a car over a snowy road in Scheveningen, the Netherlands. (Photo: Nationaal Archief/flickr)This is AO's Photo of the Week, a feature in which we unearth a compelling...
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FOUND: A Very Early and Very Rare Ottoman Atlas
The recently discovered copy of the Cedid Atlas (Photo: Nikolaj Blegvad / The National Library of Norway)In 1803, when the Cedid Atlas Tercumesi was printed in Istanbul, the city was still the capital...
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160-Year-Old Ganges Canal Super-Passages Are An Engineering Marvel
The Ranipur super-passage passes over the Ganges Canal (Photo: Anthony Acciavatti/Ganges Water Machine)When the Ganges Canal first opened in 1854 it was the largest and costliest man-made waterway in...
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Carousel of Happiness in Nederland, Colorado
The Carousel of Happiness started simply enough: with an empty frame for an antique carousel, and an idea to repopulate it with something beautiful.Nederland, Colorado native Scott Harrison once...
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Emily Carr House in Victoria, Canada
The childhood home of the eccentric Canadian painter and writer Emily Carr is now a museum dedicated to her life and works.Emily Carr (1871-1945) was a painter whose works were heavily inspired by the...
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Library of the Sarospatak Reformed College in Sárospatak, Hungary
Some of the oldest and most valuable books and manuscripts in Hungarian history are housed in the beautiful library of a small university town in the Bodrog river valley.The Protestant Reformation took...
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Watermills of Jajce in Jezero, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jajce, in the central region of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is a historic city all about falling water. Famous for its enormous waterfall in the middle of town, the meeting of two rivers – the Pliva and...
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