How Clowns Trademark Their Face By Painting On Eggs

Dec 15, 2017

Every clown’s face makeup is unique, or at least, they should be, for there is an unwritten rule within the clowning community that no clown...

Toronto’s Camouflaged Electric Substations

Dec 14, 2017

More often than not, industrial infrastructures are an eyesore, especially when they are smack in the middle of a beautiful city like Toront...

Cultybraggan: Britain’s Last POW Camp

Dec 12, 2017

The Cultybraggan camp located near the Scottish village of Comrie, in Perthshire, is one of the last remaining World War 2 Prisoner of War C...

Decorating Fences With Trash, The New Zealander Way

Dec 9, 2017

New Zealanders have a unique way of discarding their trash—they hang them on fences. Bras, boots, toothbrushes, bicycles, everything that ha...

The Dark Legacy of Gruinard Island

Dec 8, 2017

Halfway between the villages of Gairloch and Ullapool in the North-West Highlands of Scotland, sits a small oval-shaped island named Gruinar...

Leiden’s Love Affair With Poems And Equations

Dec 7, 2017

Scattered throughout the city of Leiden, in The Netherlands, are over one hundred poems carefully hand-painted on the exterior walls of buil...

Chateau de Chenonceau: The Chateau Built Over A River

Dec 6, 2017

Château de Chenonceau, located near the small village of Chenonceaux in France, is one of the best-known chateau of the Loire valley. The ch...

The Southern Pole of Inaccessibility

Dec 6, 2017

The cold hard stare of Lenin penetrating the icy air is the only thing you’ll come across the vast frozen landscape in this part of Antarcti...

The German Hyperinflation of 1923

Dec 5, 2017

There was a time when an average German carried billions of marks in their pockets but could still buy nothing. A loaf of bread cost 200 bil...

The Fungus That Makes Mummies

Dec 4, 2017

In 1647, construction workers carrying out repairs on the Church of Saint Andrew in the small city of Venzone, in the province of Udine, Ita...