Vilarinho da Furna: A Drowned Roman Village

Mar 27, 2017

Vilarinho da Furna, in the municipality of Terras de Bouro in the Braga district, in northern Portugal, was an old village that was erased f...

The Temple of The Flying Monks

Mar 27, 2017

That tiny orange figure levitating above this futuristic structure high on the Songshan mountain in rural Henan, China, is indeed a monk, al...

The Wild Burros of Oatman, Arizona

Mar 23, 2017

Positioned in the ancient part of old Route 66, in the US state of Arizona, Oatman is full of wild burros —an old Spanish term which means d...

Moroccan Wall: The Longest Minefield in The World

Mar 23, 2017

You may or you may not have heard about “Western Sahara”, but if you consult Google Maps or any other modern atlas, you will notice this reg...

Japanese Holdouts: The Soldiers Who Wouldn’t Surrender

Mar 21, 2017

Emperor Hirohito’s announcement of Japan’s surrender at the end of the Second Word War came as a blessed relief to millions of Japanese who ...

Agloe: A Fake Town That Became Real

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

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

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

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

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 ...