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Ella's Frontier Trading Post in Joseph City, Arizona
Ella's Frontier is one in a long line of Route 66 trading posts that the shiny new highway passed by. Despite being able to see the trucks and travelers rumbling down Interstate-40 from what’s left of...
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Before Bowie Or Prince, There Was Zeki Müren—Turkey's Gender-Bending Rock Star
A Zeki Müren Hotline flyer, searching for stories on a Turkish bus. (Photo: Zeki Müren Hatti/Beyza Boyacioglu)In September of 1996, Zeki Müren—singer, movie star, fashion icon—took the stage for the...
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Null Island is One of the Most Visited Places on Earth. Too Bad It Doesn't Exist
The article below was originally published in Worlds Revealed, the official blog of the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress, as “The Geographical Oddity of Null Island.”It doesn’t...
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Professor Solves 350-Year-Old Mystery Behind The Man in the Iron Mask
A 1789 print by an anonymous artist depicting The Man in the Iron Mask. (Photo: Anonymous/Public Domain)The legend of the Man in the Iron Mask goes something like this: until his death in 1703, a...
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Fallen Star in La Jolla (San Diego), California
No one can cantilever a house quite like an engineer - unless it’s an artist with a vision. Do Ho Suh, a Korean-born and Rhode Island School of Design-trained artist, has added his own off-kilter...
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Amulet Market in Bangkok, Thailand
Who's to say what form divine protection may take?Known as the Amulet Market, the corridors are lined with stalls whose only wares are thousand upon thousands of sacred trinkets bestowed with...
View ArticleCourt Rules Figurines Modeled on This Artist's Vagina Are Art
A Japanese court says the vagina figurines by artist Rokudenashiko are actually art and not obscenities. pic.twitter.com/yAiv6cnlhR— AJ+ (@ajplus) May 9, 2016Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi and her...
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The First Evidence That Sea-Level Rise Has Claimed These Five Islands
All that remains of one of the completely eroded islands. (Photo: Simon Albert)This article was written by Simon Albert, The University of Queensland; Alistair Grinham, The University of Queensland;...
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The Giant Blimp Hovering Over Kabul in Kabul, Afghanistan
The American military has been rapidly shifting its efforts towards surveillance technology - so much so that nowadays, more footage is taken from American surveillance cameras in one minute than is...
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'Turtle' Submarine at Connecticut River Museum in Essex, Connecticut
Little-known fact: the first submarine and underwater time bomb were created during the American Revolution–before electricity, and before Jules Verne. It was 100% human-operated (no engines just hand...
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The Rise of the Gay Mafia, a Powerful Cabal That Never Existed
The paranoia over an "international homosexual conspiracy" rivaled the McCarthy communist witch hunts of the 1950s. (Photo: US Senate/Public Domain)The idea of a “gay mafia” may seem like a bad...
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How Rival Gardens of Eden in Iraq Survived ISIS, Dwindling Tourists, And Each...
A bird flies out of a Lalish temple that features a stone black snake on its wall. (Photo: Erin Trieb)Thirty-five miles north of Mosul, Iraq, about an hour’s drive from Islamic State territory, was the...
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The World's Most Romantic Socks Are Knitted on an Active Volcano
The island of Tristan da Cunha as seen from the International Space Station. (Photo: NASA/Public Domain)Socks often get short shrift as presents, lumped in with other hastily-grabbed items like gift...
View ArticleThe Hideous Jug That Duped 'Antiques Roadshow'
We are all-new TONIGHT at 8/7c on @PBS. Does this face jug speak to you, and what does it say? pic.twitter.com/0jqgWwHrRO— Antiques Roadshow (@RoadshowPBS) January 11, 2016 Usually the appraisers on...
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Solving the Mystery of Early Polar Exploration Through Stamps
A glimpse into Admiral Richard Byrd's 1928-30 first Antarctic expedition. (Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild/CC BY-SA 3.0)It’s a mild afternoon, sunlight meandering through the windows. You’ve finally gotten...
View ArticleFound: A Napoleonic War Diary Hiding in a Bookstore in Tasmania
No one knows how long the journal was sitting there, or how it got to Tasmania, but recently, the owner of a second-hand bookstore in Hobart found an 1811 diary of a soldier who fought in the...
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Peppersauce Ghost Town in Calico Rock, Arkansas
Like many nascent 1800s settlements, East Calico (the original and oldest portion of what is now Calico Rock) started as a trading post for French traders and trappers traveling the White...
View ArticleMystery Person Buys $17.2 Million Kneeling Hitler
Cattelan’s Hitler statue breaks record at Christie's 'curated' auction in New York yesterday https://t.co/erQkL7Fiimpic.twitter.com/s2KNyKpCMB— The Art Newspaper (@TheArtNewspaper) May 9, 2016This past...
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L' Extra-Terrasse in Saint-Simon, Canada
Jean Saint-Germain is a model of perseverance and imagination for the Quebecois. An inventor since just a teenager, his name appears alongside Canadian greats in patent halls and legends of innovation....
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Masdar City in Masdar City, United Arab Emirates
In recognition of climate change being one of the most dangerous threats to humanity on Planet Earth, a company in the United Arab Emirates called “Masdar” (nicknamed the “Abu Dhabi Future Energy...
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