It is said that Tommy Tucker fell from a tree one fine afternoon in 1942 in the backyard of the Bullis’ house, in Washington, D.C., while he...
The American heartland was once dotted by thousands of ceremonial and burial mounds. They occurred over a large area that stretched from the...
When the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were unearthed from under volcanic ash at the foothills of Mount Vesuvius, in the ...
Two hours northwest of Tokyo in Chichibu, there is a museum of rocks called Chinsekikan where you won’t learn a thing about geology. However...
One of the strangest places in Utah, United States, is Goblin Valley located in Emery County between the towns of Green River and Hanksville...
Victor A. Lundy is best known for his modernist architecture —the imposing rectangles of the United States Tax Court Building in Washington,...
Flooding has been a part of Venice since ancient times. Between autumn and spring, the city is affected by bouts of periodic flooding known ...
From the archives of Amusing Planet. Rainbow Eucalyptus–The Most Colorful Tree on Earth These trees may look like they've been painted...
Drive past Lefferts Historic House, in Brooklyn's Prospect Park, this week, and you will be confronted by a crowd of political signs res...
The Cheltenham Badlands is an area in Caledon, Canada, consisting of bare, windswept red hills and gullies displaying spectacular colors tha...
The aptly named “superb bird-of-paradise” is fascinating to behold, especially when it’s performing its courtship dance. In fact, once the m...
About 300 km east of Mumbai, in the remote Indian village of Shani Shingnapur, crime is a concept so alien that villagers here have stopped ...
Nestled between the towns of Dolgellau and Machynlleth, in central Wales, is a series of grass covered valleys that is renowned the world ov...
Deep in the forests of central France, an unusual archeological and historical experiment is taking place. A team of stonemasons, carpenters...
Fairies have invaded the city of Ann Arbor, that’s what long-time resident Jonathan B. Wright, a graphic designer, wants you to believe. He ...
The Homestead Caldera, known locally as "The Crater", is a natural hot spring hidden inside a 55-foot tall, beehive-shaped limesto...
In the distant corner of northern Japan, a place known for terraced paddy fields and apple orchards, is the small village of Shingo, where l...
If you drive through the municipality of Erlenbach im Simmental in Switzerland, along the main road, you’ll pass right underneath a shooting...
In Southern Maryland, about thirty miles south of Washington, D.C., the Potomac River forms a shallow bulge called Mallows Bay. It’s an incr...
The northeastern corner of the US state of Oklahoma was once the most productive lead and zinc mining areas of the world. The metals were di...
