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Canadian Couple Invites 1,000 Cats to Their Wedding
A cat actively participates in a bridal party. (Photo: lemonjenny/CC BY-ND 2.0)Cat lovers, we have a new item for your “#RelationshipGoals” check list: get married before an adoring army of feline...
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An Incredibly Rare Bird Has Been Rediscovered in Brazil
An 1893 illustration of the blue-eyed ground dove. Until recently, the bird had never been photographed. (Illustration: John Gerrard Keulemans/Public Domain)In 2015, the IUCN Red List, which assesses...
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British Cemetery Haunted by Peanut-Butter-Loving Baby Fox
Another fox "haunting" a cemetery. (Photo: Dan Davison/CC BY-2.0)It’s Saturday evening. You’ve stopped by the local cemetery to pay your respects to your dearly departed grandmother. Only a few other...
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Albert Szukalski's Last Supper in Beatty, Nevada
No, that isn't a Death Valley-induced mirage. The hillside below Daylight Pass, just beyond the ghost town of Rhyolite, is decorated by a congregation of menacing, hooded figures that strikingly...
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The Invention that Tamed America, and the Town Obsessed with It
Different types of barbed wire on display at the Barbed Wire Museum in LaCrosse, Kansas. (Photo: David Howells/Getty Images) Could anything be less friendly than barbed wire? Its whole purpose is to...
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Why the First Cremation in the U.S. Was So Controversial
LeMoyne Crematory in Pennsylvania. (Photo: Lee Paxton/CC BY-SA 4.0)"Things were a little ghostly," wrote a reporter for the Philadelphia Times, setting the scene for a morbid public spectacle. The...
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Found: A Rare ‘Werewolf’ Kitten Born Without a Breeder
Here's Eyona. (Photo: TEARS Animal Rescue)In Cape Town, South Africa, volunteers for an animal rescue group have found a kitten belonging to what’s sometimes called the “world's rarest breed of...
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These Stunning Maps Highlight the Tricks in a Cartographer's Toolkit
46.0167° N, 7.7500° E, Bundesamt für Landestopografie, Zermatt, 1997. Scale 1:25,000 (shown at half size) . Cartographic Grounds, Princeton Architectural Press. (Photo: Harvard Map Collection/Harvard...
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Sydney’s Jazz Age Criminal Queens Ruled the Streets With Razors
The mugshots of Tilly Devine. (Photo: Courtesy State Archives of New South Wales)In the 1920s, Australia was under the dominion of British King George V. But on the streets of Sydney, two female...
View ArticleHundreds of Yellow Butterflies Attend Ceremony for Gabriel García Márquez's...
Telegraph Pics: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's ashes laid to rest in Cartagena, Colombia syndica… https://t.co/TrZzIJkLVQpic.twitter.com/0fCKbYe9my— Truth (@FindSource) May 23, 2016After the death of...
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Avatar Hallelujah Mountain in Zhangjiajie, China
It wasn't until 1982 that China created its first national park: Zhangjiajie National Forest Park. They couldn’t have chosen a better site - Zhangjiajie is famous for its 3,000 vertical pillars, each...
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India Launches Its First Space Shuttle
(Photo: ISRO)The international space race got a little hotter Monday, after India said they'd successfully launched a tiny space shuttle 43 miles into the air, taking another step forward in its...
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Elvis Presley Birthplace in Tupelo, Mississippi
The shotgun shack built by Vernon Presley had only two rooms for Vernon, Gladys and baby Elvis. This was the mid-1930s, and times were tough for the Presleys, as well as just about everyone else in...
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The American Toby Jug Museum in Evanston, Illinois
The American Toby Jug Museum, not far from downtown Chicago, houses the eccentric collection of Stephen M. Mullins, who bought his first jug as a kid at Canadian summer camp. It’s taken him over seven...
View ArticleMars Will Soon Be the Closest It's Been to Earth in 11 Years
Mars is usually a long ways away: up to 250 million miles, in fact. But it can also get much closer, the distance varying according to its orbit. On May 30, according to NASA, that distance will be its...
View ArticleSee The Bosch Parade's Bizarre, Buoyant Works of Art
The skeleton of a mermaid floats down a river. A man rides a giant horn along the currents. A man desperately tries to put out the fire on his sinking boat. Though these images may feel as though they...
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A Dry Town Goes Wet After More Than a Century
Kelly Green Brewing Co. on Broadway in Pitman, NJ. (Photo: Jackson Kuhl)On its second night open, Kelly Green Brewing Co. unlocked its front door promptly at 5 p.m. By 5:05 the line from the bar...
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Curaçao's Sand-Floored Synagogue in Willemstad, Curaçao
Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue—often referred to as the Snoa, another term for synagogue—is the oldest surviving synagogue and Jewish congregation in the Americas. This is more than enough to make it a...
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Bo Kaap in Cape Town, South Africa
In the 16th and 17th Centuries, the Dutch, who were occupying South Africa at the time, brought thousands of people (mainly Muslims) from Malaysia, Indonesia, and other African countries to the Cape of...
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Harrisburg's Mini Statue of Liberty in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Located in the Dauphin Narrows stretch of the Susquehanna River, stands a mini Statue of Liberty is a 25 foot tall replica of the original. Technically it is a replica of a replica. The current statue...
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