The 1957 Plymouth Belvedere That Was Buried For 50 Years

Feb 10, 2023

The opening of a time capsule is supposed to be an exciting and nostalgic event that gives future generations a chance to peek into the past...

The Get Out And Push Railroad

Feb 8, 2023

For a very short five years, Wilmington, Los Angeles, was connected to the Willmore area of Long Beach by a street railway, initially pulled...

Matsugaoka Tōkei-ji, The Divorce Temple

Feb 6, 2023

For over six hundred years, the Matsugaoka Tōkei-ji, in the city of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, had served as a refugee for wome...

The Himalayan Towers of China

Feb 3, 2023

In the Western Sichuan province, between central China and the Tibetan Autonomous Region, there exist hundreds of mysterious stone towers, s...

The Tay Whale

Jan 31, 2023

The city of Dundee on the Firth of Tay, on the east coast of Scotland, was a major whaling port in the 19th century. But few locals had actu...

Kallima Inachus: The Butterfly That Pretends to be a Dead Leaf

Jan 30, 2023

A walk through the forests and rainforests of Southeast Asia may bring us a curious surprise. Perhaps at a certain moment while walking we n...

James Rumsey’s Steamboat

Jan 30, 2023

In 1787, American engineer James Rumsey demonstrated before a crowd of local notables a peculiar boat on the Potomac River at Shepherdstown ...

Sable Island: The Graveyard of The North Atlantic

Jan 24, 2023

About 300 km east of Halifax, Nova Scotia, lies a narrow, crescent-shaped sandbar, whose existence has been a bane on shipping for centuries...

Princess May’s Dramatic Grounding

Jan 23, 2023

In August 1910, a Canadian steamship named Princess May ran aground near Sentinel Island, off the coast of Alaska, in the most spectacular ...

Curfew Bell

Jan 20, 2023

Nearly every medieval house in Europe used to have an open hearth where a fire was kept going at all times to keep the occupants warm, and a...