Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont was a Spanish polymath who was far ahead of his time. Centuries before the Industrial Revolution, this Spanish ...
Île de Peilz, or Peilz Island, is small picturesque island in Lake Geneva in Switzerland, not far from the town of Villeneuve. Measuring som...
Just off Bessemer Mine Road, not far from Pioneertown, in California’s Mojave Desert stands what appears to be an unremarkable ring of shrub...
In 1905, a little-known journalist named Edgar Wallace was determined to make his first novel impossible to ignore. The book was The Four Ju...
On Smedestraat, a shopping street in the historic center of Haarlem, in the Netherlands, is an unusual national monument. It’s not a house, ...
On 9 October 1917, during the Third Battle of Ypres, a battalion of Australian soldiers entered a place known as Celtic Wood, near Passchend...
The windswept plateau in central Wales, near the village of Sennybridge in Powys, was once home to a thriving Welsh-speaking farming society...
In northern Germany, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, between the rivers Weser and Elbe, stands a mountain that is home to mysterious legends ...
The design and working principle of a windmill or a wind powered machine haven’t changed much since they first appeared in Persia some 1,20...
In the late 18th century, no man in Edinburgh seemed more respectable than William Brodie. By day, he was a successful cabinetmaker, a membe...
