Agloe: A Fake Town That Became Real
Anonymous
Mar 19, 2017
In the 1930s, a small town named Agloe suddenly began appearing on the maps of New York. It was positioned near an unmarked dirt road that l...
The Battle for Castle Itter: The Strangest Battle of WW2
Anonymous
Mar 19, 2017
In the waning days of the Second World War, five days after Hitler shot himself in his bunker in Berlin, one of the most bizarre battle took...
Thilafushi: Maldives’s Garbage Island
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 11, 2017
What does an island with not a speck of land to spare do to get rid of hundreds of tons of garbage generated each day by its one million yea...
The Mysterious Caynton Caves
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 10, 2017
What appears to be an ordinary rabbit hole in a farmer's field is actually the humble entrance to a large underground cave whose origins...
Monument to The Armenian Alphabet
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 9, 2017
Located near the village of Artashavan, close to the highway, in Armenia, stands 39 giant carved Armenian letters dedicated to the language ...
This Croatian Island Looks Like A Giant Fingerprint
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 9, 2017
This tiny island in the Adriatic Sea, off the coast of Croatia, has been under a lot of attention in recent times. Located in the Sibenik ar...
Chaiten: The Town Buried By A Volcano
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 7, 2017
Early in the morning of May 2, 2008, a volcano located about 10 km to the north of the town of Chaitén, near the Gulf of Corcovado in southe...
Bridegroom's Oak: The Tree With Its Own Postal Address
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 7, 2017
Bräutigamseiche, Dodauer Forst, 23701 Eutin, Germany If you write a letter addressed to the address above, it will end up in knothole of an...
The Deepest Metro Stations in The World
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 6, 2017
The average metro train doesn’t go beyond a few stories underground. But sometimes the geology and the geography of the region, such as the ...
The Witty Epitaphs of Key West Cemetery
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 4, 2017
A cemetery might seem like an odd destination on a tourist circuit, but the one in Key West, Florida, has a lot of history and some rather i...
