The Mystery of The Longyou Caves

Jul 8, 2017

In 1992, a strangely curious man named Wu Anai, near the Chinese village of Shiyan Beicun in Longyou County, based on a hunch, began to pump...

The Humongous Fungus

Jul 7, 2017

Beneath the soil in the Malheur National Forest in eastern Oregon, the United States, lurks a very large fungus that has been slowly weaving...

Paracas Candelabra of Peru

Jul 5, 2017

The Nazca Lines in southern Peru are some of the best known geoglyphs on earth, but they aren’t the only ones in the Nazca desert. About 200...

Kito Fujio’s Dramatic Photos of Japanese Playgrounds At Night

Jul 5, 2017

Ever since Kito Fujio quit his job as an office worker to become a freelance photographer, he has been exploring every possible nook and co...

Herculaneum: Pompeii’s Less Famous Neighbor

Jul 4, 2017

In late August 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius blew its top off and for three days death rained down upon towns, villas and farms surrounding the volc...

Who Put Bella In The Wych Elm?

Jul 4, 2017

This question, which appears in the form of a graffiti on a towering brick obelisk in Hagley in Worcestershire, England, has been haunting t...

Kuching, The Cat City

Jul 1, 2017

The city of Kuching, in the state of Sarawak in Malaysia, is full of cats. There are cats on the sidewalk, at traffic signals, in parks, ins...

Hattusa: The Ancient Capital of The Hittites

Jun 29, 2017

One of Turkey’s lesser visited but historically significant attraction is the ruin of an ancient city known as Hattusa, located near modern ...

The Forgotten Sport of Octopus Wrestling

Jun 29, 2017

One April morning in 1963, some five thousand spectators gathered on the shores of Puget Sound near the Tacoma Narrows, in Washington, to wa...

The Steam Hammers Of The Industrial Age

Jun 27, 2017

Standing proudly at the entrance to the French industrial town of Le Creusot, in the region of Bourgogne in the eastern part of the country,...