A Licence to Watch Television

Aug 5, 2020

In many countries, owing a television involves more than one type of cost. First the device itself, which may cost, depending on your taste,...

Graft Chimera

Aug 4, 2020

On a small traffic island on Rodney Road, in Backwell, in the English county of North Somerset, stands a horticultural curiosity—a cherry tr...

Nikola Tesla’s Experimental Laboratory in Colorado Springs

Aug 4, 2020

One of Colorado Spring’s most famous visitors was electrical engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla, who in the spring of 1899, set up a laborat...

Kinzua Viaduct: The Fallen Bridge

Aug 1, 2020

On 21 July 2003, a fierce tornado struck northern Pennsylvania and destroyed a large section of the Kinzua Viaduct, a historic railroad tres...

Pelorus Jack: The Dolphin Who Piloted Ships

Jul 30, 2020

The northern end of New Zealand’s South Island is a chaos of bays and sounds, and within this intricate coastline lies a narrow and treacher...

Dementia Villages

Jul 29, 2020

At first glance, Hogewey, a small community situated about 20 km outside of Amsterdam looks like any other Dutch town. Residents go about th...

The Relocation of Abu Simbel Temples

Jul 27, 2020

Hundreds of towns and villages have perished due to massive earth-moving projects such as the construction of dams. But the temples at Abu S...

Christopher Columbus’s House in Genoa

Jul 24, 2020

It would have been wonderful to see the actual house where Christopher Columbus grew up. Unfortunately, the one that stands in Genoa today i...

Astola Island: Pakistan’s Hidden Gem

Jul 23, 2020

About 25 km off the coast of Balochistan, in the Arabian Sea, lies a large uninhabited island about 7 km long and 2.5 km wide, with sheer wh...

Malbork Castle: The Brick Marvel

Jul 22, 2020

The Malbork Castle in northern Poland wears two feathers in its cap. Not only it is the largest castle in the world measured by land area, i...