Hotel Belvédère: The Iconic Swiss Hotel on The Edge of The Rhone Glacier

Nov 29, 2018

Located in one of the snowiest regions in Switzerland, the Furka Pass, connecting the cantons of Uri and Valais in the country’s south-centr...

Halifax Gibbet: The Infamous Forerunner to The Guillotine

Nov 27, 2018

Standing inconspicuously in the middle of an empty plot behind some trees, in the small English town of Halifax, in West Yorkshire, is a fea...

The Boot Monument: How America Remembers Its Most Infamous Traitor

Nov 27, 2018

At the Saratoga National Historical Park in New York is an American Revolutionary War memorial depicting a single boot sculpted in stone. Th...

The Salt Mining Elephants of Mount Elgon

Nov 26, 2018

Large herbivores such as elephants often seek out natural mineral deposits such as rocks and soil to supplement their dietary intake of sod...

The Collapse of Marib Dam And The Fall of an Empire

Nov 26, 2018

Near the ancient city of Marib, in Yemen, lies the ruins of a great dam. Considered to be one of the biggest engineering wonders of the anci...

Wrangel Island: The Island of Polar Bears And Wooly Mammoth

Nov 22, 2018

Wrangel Island, in the Arctic Ocean, is one of the most remote islands in Russia. Straddling the International Date Line—the boundary where ...

The 4,000-Year-Old Termite Mounds The Size of Britain

Nov 21, 2018

In the seasonally dry, deciduous forests of northeastern Brazil, obscured by walls of thorny-scrubs, is a vast landscape made up of tens of ...

A Barrel Post Office, Mysterious Disappearances and Moby Dick: The Strange History of Floreana Island

Nov 21, 2018

The Galapagos islands in the Pacific Ocean were once natural stopovers for 18-century whalers, who were drawn to the remote islands by fresh...

Schwerer Gustav: The World’s Biggest Gun Ever Built

Nov 19, 2018

Hitler sure had some grand ideas—from mass murdering Jews and conquering Europe, to rebuilding Berlin and draining the Mediterranean sea . ...

“The Miraculous Journey” By Damien Hirst

Nov 19, 2018

A series of fourteen monumental bronze sculptures chronicling the gestation of a fetus inside a womb, from conception to birth, is one of th...