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The Tree Crosses of Rosma Forest in Põlva Parish, Estonia
In southern Estonia, there is a funeral custom that entails cutting a cross into the bark of a tree to commemorate the lost loved one, and keep their soul from coming back to haunt them. The forest...
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The Long Quest to Get Southerners to Stop Dueling
A recreation of a duel's aftermath, by photographer Katharine Sheward Stanbery and circa 1900. (Image: Katharine Sheward Stanbery/Library of Congress LC-USZC2-5986)Those who take up political office in...
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Glorious Vintage-Inspired Posters of America's National Parks
Vermilion Cliffs, Justin Beaulieu. (All Images: Courtesy Chronicle Books/ Creative Action Network) America's national parks have been enthralling visitors for over a century. The very first park to be...
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What Are Bollards, and Why Are They So Beautiful?
A gathering of bollards in Los Angeles, Calif. (Photo: Andrew Choate/Saint Bollard)How does one become a bollard photographer? For Andrew Choate it all started inadvertently, when he was living in...
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The 110-Foot Pegasus Living It Up In South Florida
The Pegasus sculpture. (Photo: Ines Hegedus-Garcia/CC BY 2.0)It would be hard to mistake Gulfstream Racetrack’s Pegasus Park for your standard-issue giant animal roadside attraction, like the Jersey...
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Tourlitis Lighthouse in Tourlitis, Greece
As lighthouses go, you can't get much more singular and evocative than the Tourlitis Lighthouse off the coast of the port city of Andros. Rising up out of a weather-worn stone spire, the beacon looks...
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Found: Isaac Newton's Recipe for the Philosopher's Stone
Gotta get that philosopher's stone. (Photo: Chemical Heritage Foundation)Isaac Newton didn’t believe in magic, but he did believe in the philosopher’s stone, a legendary concoction that could turn lead...
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Protesters are Rebuilding Thoreau’s Cabin to Block a Gas Pipeline
Looking out on Ashfield from the inside of Will Elwell's Thoreau cabin replica. (Photo: Will Elwell)Standing by his new hand-hewn cabin frame at its dedication last month, Massachusetts resident Will...
View ArticleMass Robot Firings in China Because of Incompetence
Guangzhou restaurant fires its robot staff for their incompetence https://t.co/bcWc104JdIpic.twitter.com/fkXNqfhghj— Lifeboat Foundation (@lifeboathq) April 7, 2016After piloting early AI server...
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Büyükada in Adalar, Turkey
Off the coast of Istanbul, a traffic-free archipelago rises from the Sea of Marmara. The largest island is home to many wonders: extravagant Ottoman architecture, quiet Greek monasteries, and the...
View ArticleAustralian Uses Phone to Download Nearly a Terabyte of Free Data in One Day
Telstra free data guy clocks up almost a terabyte of downloadshttps://t.co/MXxCvoIrl1pic.twitter.com/WGsIe0ylBq— Canberra Times (@canberratimes) April 4, 2016Customers of Telstra, Australian's largest...
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Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida
The world’s largest collection of art by Salvador Dalí is, logically, in his hometown of Figueres, Spain. But the second largest collection devoted to the world’s most famous surrealist is on display...
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Bacardi Building in La Habana, Cuba
In 1930, the Bacardi rum company opened a new headquarters: a gorgeous Art Deco building on the edge of Old Havana. In 1960, Bacardi left Cuba after the newly installed revolutionary government...
View ArticleWatch This Video of a Dog Flying a Plane
You might be thinking at this very moment that you've reached a certain age and that you've, you know, seen things. Maybe you're also thinking, perhaps a bit smugly, that you've seen everything. The...
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Shipwrecked Mariners Saved On Deserted Island After Writing 'Help' on Beach
(Photo: robmcm/CC BY-SA 2.0)Three mariners set out early Monday in a 19-foot boat planning to skip from one Micronesian island to another. But they never got there, and a U.S. Navy plane Thursday found...
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Will A Newly-Proposed Bridge Finally Connect the Red Sea?
An Egyptian ship taking tourists on recreational cruises of the Red Sea. Soon, the boat may be entirely optional. (Photo: V Manninen/CC BY-2.0)Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has announced that his country...
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Texas Town Unveils the World's Largest Bowie Knife
A regular-sized Bowie knife. (Photo: Mika Järvinen/CC BY-2.0)Everything is bigger in Texas,” the saying goes, and the saying is definitely now true for Bowie knives, as Bowie, Texas unveils what may be...
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The Terrible Problem of Hitler's Earliest Home
Hitler's birthplace: Salzburger Vorstadt 15 in Braunau am Inn, Austria. (Photo: Thomas Ledl/CC BY-SA-4.0)It's a modest building, on a quiet street. It is also the house where Adolf Hitler was born....
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The One Castaway Trick That You Need to Know to Be Rescued
Two men wave life jackets and look on as a U.S. Navy P-8A maritime surveillance aircraft discovers them on the uninhabited island of Fanadik. (Photo: U.S. Navy/Public Domain)If you think the...
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Moonshine, Illinois in Martinsville, Illinois
Harboring a population of just two people, this one-building town still manages to be a hot spot for day trippers, motorcycle groups, and events, even though to the locals, it is simply described as a...
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