The House Where Hitler Was Born

Jan 23, 2017

Braunau am Inn, on the south bank of the Inn river, close to the border with Germany, is a charming little town in Austria. But it carries a...

The Terrifying Beauty of Melting Icecaps

Jan 23, 2017

Every summer, as the air warms up and the sunlight beats down on the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica, pools of brilliantly blue melt ...

The House Made of Newspapers

Jan 21, 2017

If you go to Rockport someday, in Massachusetts, the United States, take some time to drive down Pigeon Hill Street and look out for a sign ...

Ecce Homo: The Botched Painting That Saved a Town

Jan 20, 2017

Eighty-three year old amateur artist Cecilia Giménez had nothing but good intentions when she turned her attention towards a deteriorating f...

A Hanging Tree, Graves And Hemingway: The Colorful History of Captain Tony's Saloon

Jan 19, 2017

There appears to be nothing remarkable about Captain Tony's Saloon housed in a yellow, two-storied building at 428 Greene Street in Key ...

Kitsault: The Ghost Town Where Lights Are Still On But No One’s Home

Jan 18, 2017

Think ghost town and you’ll probably imagine ruins —roofless houses, dirty broken windows, rotting floors, but at Kitsault, on the North Coa...

The Infamous Mauthausen Stairs of Death

Jan 16, 2017

The Mauthausen concentration camp, situated about 20 kilometers east of the city of Linz in Upper Austria, was the hub of one of the largest...

La Pascualita, The Corpse Bride

Jan 16, 2017

Peering out from behind the glass window of a small bridal shop in Chihuahua, Mexico, stands a tall, slender figure dressed in bridal costum...

The Second Life of Wind Turbine Blades

Jan 12, 2017

As the world pushes towards renewable energy, the wind energy industry comes to the forefront as a clean and a genuinely green energy. And l...

The Frankincense Trees of Wadi Dawkah

Jan 11, 2017

For more than 5,000 years, the Arabs have traded two highly prized fragrances —frankincense and myrrh— obtained from trees that grow exclusi...