The Lighthouse That Wrecked More Ships Than it Saved

Oct 17, 2018

For more than forty years a lighthouse stood on a large anvil-shaped peninsula jutting into the Tasman Sea near Jervis Bay, in southern Aust...

Michael Pederson’s Fake Street Signs

Oct 17, 2018

Sydney-based artist Michael Pederson creates small signs with humorous messages and tucks them all around his home city at places where you ...

The Churches of Chiloé Island

Oct 17, 2018

Off the coast of Chile, a group of about thirty islands belonging to the Chiloé Archipelago make up a fiercely independent community with it...

When ‘Blowing Smoke Up Your Ass’ Was a Real Thing

Oct 15, 2018

This neat little box containing a pair of bellows and an assortment of pipes and other fixtures is a Tobacco Resuscitator Kit from the 18th...

Britain's Giant Hillside Chalk Figures

Oct 13, 2018

The Westbury White Horse carved on the hillside near Westbury in Wiltshire, England. Photo credit: tipwarm/Shutterstock.com A large portio...

How The London Bridge Was Sold to America

Oct 11, 2018

For centuries, children and kindergarteners have sung and danced to the tune of London Bridge is falling down , but when engineers discovere...

Galgano Guidotti And The Sword in Stone

Oct 10, 2018

The story of King Arthur and his legendary sword Excalibur which he pulled out of a rock to prove his divine right to the throne is well kno...

The World’s Longest Portico

Oct 9, 2018

Portico di San Luca : Photo credit: Stefano Carnevali/Shutterstock.com Atop a forested hill, some 300 meters above the city of Bologna, st...

New Zealand’s Castaway Depots For Shipwrecked Sailors

Oct 9, 2018

An old castaway hut in the North of Antipodes Islands, New Zealand. Photo credit: LawrieM/Wikimedia Before the Suez and Panama Canals open...

Banaba: A Tropical Paradise Destroyed by Mining

Oct 8, 2018

In the Pacific Ocean, halfway between Papua New Guinea and Hawaii, there is a small island named Banaba belonging to a scattered group of is...