100 Wonders: The Merry Cemetery
In the small Romanian town of Săpânţa, when you die, you can expect a colorful goodbye.At the town's Merry Cemetery, colorfully illustrated crosses depict soldiers being beheaded and resident being hit...
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FOUND: A Cuneiform Text That Shows How Babylonians Used Geometry to Track...
The Moon and Jupiter (Photo: Eric Kilby/Wikimedia)Among the tens of thousands of cuneiform tablets and fragments dug up in the early 19th century from Mesopotamian cities, there are about 450 of those...
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The Strange–and Sometimes Secret–Ways Cities Deal With Massive Piles of Snow
Snow in Times Square (Photo: Johan Lange/flickr)After a big snow storm, snow disposal, even in big cities, used to be relatively simple.“We used to throw the snow in the water,” says the New York City...
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Sky Walk in Dolní Morava, Czech Republic
Scenic walkways have leveled-up as of December 2015, when Czech architecture firm Fránek Architects debuted their extreme Sky Walk on a peak in the Krkonoše Mountains.High atop one of Dolní Morava's...
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Windsor Ruins in Claiborne County, Mississippi
Windsor was situated on a 2,600 acre plantation, the home of a planter with the unlikely name of Smith Coffee Daniell, II. The four-story mansion featured massive brick columns with iron Corinthian...
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The Relics of Munich Residenz in München, Germany
In the center of Munich stands the opulent "Munich Residenz", a celebrated museum that was once the palace of the former Bavarian royal family. Tucked away inside this palace is a magnificent...
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World's Largest Surfboard in Huntington Beach, California
A 42-foot long surfboard holds the world record for the "World’s Largest Surfboard."On June 22, 2015, 66 people rode an epic wave in Huntington Beach for 12 seconds, breaking not one but two world...
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Shell Beach in Francois Peron National Park, Australia
Shell Beach is one of only two beaches in the world composed entirely of shells, and was created by a unique combination of geography, climate, and marine vegetation.Shell Beach sits on a narrow...
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Fighting Whitewashed History With MIT's Diversity Hackers
Hackathon participant Nelly Rosaria, making the Wiki-world a more textured place. (Photo: Atlas Obscura)It's a scene no one would look twice at–on a Friday afternoon at the end of January, in a...
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The Balinese Cremation Ceremony Admired by David Bowie
A Balinese funeral procession. (Photo: Flickr/William Cho)When David Bowie’s will was made public on Friday, it revealed plenty of the unique details you expect from the legendary figure’s final...
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In the Wake of the Zika Virus, Should Humans Try to Eradicate Mosquitoes?
A worker sprays DDT directly into a water supply during the National Malaria Eradication Program. (Photo: CDC Public Health Image Library, ID#4684)Mosquitoes might just be the most unpopular insect on...
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Center for PostNatural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh's Center for PostNatural History is a natural history museum unlike any other, in that it focuses almost completely on the unnatural.This small exhibition space centers around displays based...
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Sannai Maruyama Ruins in Aomori-shi, Japan
In Japan's Aomori Prefecture, there is what appears to be a fully preserved, ancient settlement that looks like it was built yesterday, and in some respects, it was.Dating back to the Jomon period,...
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Mystic Hot Springs in Monroe, Utah
Although Mystic Hot Springs' titular water source has been flowing for millions of years, and the site has been inviting people to have a soak in the hot waters for over century, it wasn't until the...
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NASA Stole the Rocket Countdown From a 1929 Fritz Lang Film
A series of images from the countdown sequence of Fritz Lang's Woman in the Moon. (Image: Frau im Mond/Youtube)On December 1, 2014, NASA retired a historic piece of equipment at Kennedy Space Center...
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Who Has the Time to Use All 24 Clock Emojis?
It's 8:30. (I think?) (Image: Twitter/Wikimedia)There is a mystery that has long bothered me. From time to time, in the course of normal texting, when I’m scrolling through the emoji on my phone, I...
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FOUND: A California 'Sin Ship' Wreck, Revealed by El Niño
The SS Monte Carlo (Photo: Jamie Lantzy/Wikimedia)On the coast of Coronado, California, there's a ship buried in the sand—the wreckage of the SS Monte Carlo, a ship once dedicated to sin, and ruined by...
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Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Traffic Signs in Templin, Germany
In Germany, many town limits proudly display signs noting the times at which official church services take place. Such is the case for the town of Templin, which received a distinctly modern addition...
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Apple Pie Hill Fire Tower in Tabernacle, New Jersey
The highest point in the Pine Barrens of central New Jersey is the quaintly named Apple Pie Hill, which is only about 200 feet above sea level. Not super high, but at the top of the hill you can get up...
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How Does 'A Wrinkle in Time' Look on a Map?
A 100% hand-painted map of "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle, by illustrator Andrew DeGraff. (All photos: Andrew DeGraff/Zest Books)"It’s a bit of a sinister landscape," author and illustrator...
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