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Paul A. Johnson Pencil Sharpener Museum in Logan, Ohio
Collecting pencil sharpeners and assembling them into a museum dedicated to pencil sharpeners is a kind of eccentric thing to do. Step inside the Paul A. Johnson Pencil Sharpener Museum in Logan, Ohio...
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This Secret Tunnel Could Solve the Mysteries of an Ancient Mexican Civilization
The Avenue of the Dead, with the Pyramid of the Sun to the left. (Photo: eu tirada/Public Domain)Teotihuacán is mysterious. A city that probably started around 400 B.C., before it was abandoned over...
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The Red Lodge Museum in Bristol, United Kingdom
Hidden away off the old and uneven Lodge Street, and accessed via a proudly manicured, diminutive hedge garden, The Red Lodge Museum provides one of Bristol’s lesser-known, yet fascinatingly arcane...
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Former London Mayor Wins Poetry Contest with Goat Sex Limerick
Boris Johnson, right. (Photo: johnhemming/CC BY-SA 2.0)Boris Johnson, until last year the mayor of London, one of the largest cities in the world, has a lot of opinions. And he's known for a good...
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The Most Popular Dog Names in New York City
(Photo: m01229/CC BY 2.0)A version of this story originally appeared on Muckrock.com.Among the 8.5 millions humans of New York City, there sure are a lot of dogs. And if you were to pick one at random,...
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Owls Head Transportation Museum in Owls Head, Maine
“Wouldn’t it be nice to have some old airplanes flying around Owls Head.”That was the simple note that Tom Watson sent to Jim Rockefeller in the early 1970s. The two aviation aficionados both had...
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So You Want to Eat a Tree
Willow bark can be used as a bittering agent to make beer. (Photo: Pascal Baudar)Trees provide us with lots to eat―all kinds of nuts, fruits, and berries, not to mention maple syrup. But what about the...
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Forests Can Handle Hurricanes, Unless Humans Interfere
The Harvard Forest Hurricane Manipulation project in 1990. (Photo: Marcheterre Fluet)When Jerome Howard visited the forest in the Bayou Sauvage refuge after Hurricane Katrina, in May 2006, he found a...
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Tree Law is a Gnarly, Twisted Branch of the Legal System
A tree lawyer will help you determine liability when it comes to fallen trees. (Photo: slgckgc/CC BY 2.0)It begins almost like that familiar tree-falls-in-the-woods saying, if that saying grew up to...
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Arthurdale Historic District in Reedsville, West Virginia
Established in 1934, Arthurdale was Eleanor Roosevelt's first federally funded experiment in collectivist living.At a time when strong support for her husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt,...
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The Hangman's Elm in New York, New York
The Hangman's Elm, the oldest known living tree in Manhattan, is surrounded by legends of being used for executions.You’ll find the Hangman’s Elm in the northwest corner of Washington Square Park. It’s...
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Hell's Backbone Scenic Road in Escalante, Utah
Some evocative names swirl around a scenic road in southern Utah. The men who built it called it The Poison Road; its craggy terrain is known as desert slickrock; it is surrounded by the Box-Death...
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Le Téléscaphe in Marseille, France
France in the late 1960s was heady time. The country was emerging after WWII as an economic force and the world's fourth nuclear power. Sexual and cultural revolution swept across the country as it did...
View ArticleThis Burger King in Finland Has a Sauna in It
A Whopper in a sauna: Burger King spa opens in #Finlandhttps://t.co/joBdTFrTn8pic.twitter.com/zNzOMs4qna— The Straits Times (@STcom) May 19, 2016In Finland, saunas are a big deal. And the country...
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A Short History of Rakes, and Why You Should Think Twice About Using Them
But what do you do with leaves once they're on the ground? (Photo: Cristian Bortes/CC BY 2.0)A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of...
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Bloemen Route in Haarlem, Netherlands
Floral cultivation, also known as floriculture, began in the Netherlands in 1593, when the first tulip was planted on Dutch soil. Since then, the flower business has boomed, albeit in bizarre...
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Auschwitz Inmate's Gold Ring Found in Mug with False Bottom
(Photo: Mirosław Maciaszczyk)For 70 years, the mug pictured above held a secret: a necklace and gold ring, stored in a false bottom in a successful attempt to hide the valuables from the Germans during...
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Basin Park Hotel in Eureka Springs, Arkansas
One of the most recognizable landmarks in Eureka Springs stands firmly planted on the side of a mountain in the middle of town, at the split of Spring & Center Street, and right next to the City...
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Landsberg Prison in Landsberg am Lech, Germany
According to historical documents uncovered in 2010, Hitler spent a pretty cushy time during his short stay in this prison, built in 1910. Spoken highly of by his wardens as a model prisoner, Hitler...
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Sweden's Plan to Physically Move a City Before It Sinks into the Ground
The Kiruna Church—congregation and building alike—is getting ready to move. (Photo: Christoffer Sawicki/CC BY-SA-2.0)Maybe you remember moving to a new town as a child; the uneasiness of your first day...
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