Carrières de Lumières: An Immersive Art Gallery in a Disused Quarry

Mar 30, 2019

In the Les Baux-de-Provence of southern France, is located Carrières de Lumières , or the Quarries of Light—an unusual multimedia exhibit sp...

Vardo: The Opulent Caravans of The Gypsies

Mar 29, 2019

Living in trailer homes is largely an American culture , but the history of mobile homes originated in Europe. The first trailer home owne...

The Castle of Zafra

Mar 29, 2019

In the beloved TV series Game of Thrones, young Ned Stark is seen clashing swords with the henchmen of Targaryen in front of a spectacular c...

Mimizuka: The Burial Site of Thousands of Noses

Mar 28, 2019

In the middle of a quiet residential neighborhood in the suburb of Kyoto, Japan, is a 30-foot-high, grass-covered hillock within which are b...

WLW: The 500 Kilowatt Super Station

Mar 27, 2019

On most nights, during the 1930s, the airwaves over North America were dominated by a single radio station called WLW. Transmitting at a pow...

Quaker Guns of The American Civil War

Mar 25, 2019

“All warfare is based on deception,” Sun Tzu wrote in The Art of War , an ancient Chinese military treatise, often regarded as one of the m...

The World’s First Cyber Attack Happened Nearly Two Hundred Years Ago

Mar 25, 2019

Many say that the world’s first cyber attack happened in 1988, when Robert Morris, a 20-something graduate student at Cornell, inadvertentl...

The Red Taj Mahal: John Hessing’s Tomb

Mar 22, 2019

The Roman Catholic Cemetery in Nehru Nagar, Agra, harks back to a time when the many princely states that eventually united to become India ...

Syndrome K: The Fake Disease That Saved Lives

Mar 20, 2019

In the fall of 1943, as German soldiers began rounding up Jews in Italy and deporting them by the thousands to concentration camps, a myster...

Why Did Ancient People Bury Butter in Bogs?

Mar 19, 2019

Peat bogs are favorite hunting grounds of archeologists because of the many odd surprises these marshy wetlands have revealed from time to t...

The Stockholm Lights That Can Be Controlled By Anyone With A Phone

Mar 18, 2019

The 72-meter tall Phone Tower at the former headquarter of Ericsson at Telefonplan, in southern Stockholm, is a known landmark. It is the t...

Alai Minar: Alauddin Khilji’s Unfinished Minaret

Mar 18, 2019

The Qutub Minar in New Delhi is a well known landmark. The sandstone-colored minaret with intricately carved inscription and reliefs on its ...

The Wheel of Urine

Mar 16, 2019

A pot of urine can tell a lot about your diet and health. It can tell whether you are adequately hydrated, or how well your kidneys are func...

The Building That Steals Your Body Heat

Mar 15, 2019

More than a quarter million commuters pass through the Stockholm Central Station everyday, unaware that their bodies are being tapped for e...

The World’s Most Inland Lighthouse

Mar 13, 2019

Of all the lighthouses in the world, none was built further from the body of water it lit than the one on top of Bidston Hill, on the Irish ...

Salt Domes And Salt Glaciers of Iran

Mar 12, 2019

Million of years ago, the Persian Gulf was a much larger body of water than it is today, inundating large sections of the Arabian peninsula...

The Cactus That Crawls Across The Desert

Mar 12, 2019

The narrow peninsula of Baja California Sur, sticking into the central Pacific off Mexico’s west coast, is home to a unique species of cactu...

The Arsonist Who Set Fire to an Ancient Wonder of The World So That People Would Remember Him

Mar 9, 2019

On the night of July 21, 356 BCE, two important events took place in the Mediterranean Basin. One created history, the other erased it. On ...

Stolpersteine: The ‘Stumbling Stones’ of Holocaust Victims

Mar 8, 2019

With hundreds of things to see in Berlin, few tourists pay attention to what lies under their feet. The barely four inch by four inch blocks...

The Catholic Church Built by a Muslim Emperor

Mar 7, 2019

The city of Agra on the banks of Yamuna is a historical city full of monuments from the Mughal period, of which the Taj Mahal is one of the ...