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Sweden's Plan to Physically Move a City Before It Sinks into the Ground
The Kiruna Church—congregation and building alike—is getting ready to move. (Photo: Christoffer Sawicki/CC BY-SA-2.0)Maybe you remember moving to a new town as a child; the uneasiness of your first day...
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Canadian Couple Invites 1,000 Cats to Their Wedding
A cat actively participates in a bridal party. (Photo: lemonjenny/CC BY-ND 2.0)Cat lovers, we have a new item for your “#RelationshipGoals” check list: get married before an adoring army of feline...
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An Incredibly Rare Bird Has Been Rediscovered in Brazil
An 1893 illustration of the blue-eyed ground dove. Until recently, the bird had never been photographed. (Illustration: John Gerrard Keulemans/Public Domain)In 2015, the IUCN Red List, which assesses...
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British Cemetery Haunted by Peanut-Butter-Loving Baby Fox
Another fox "haunting" a cemetery. (Photo: Dan Davison/CC BY-2.0)It’s Saturday evening. You’ve stopped by the local cemetery to pay your respects to your dearly departed grandmother. Only a few other...
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The Invention that Tamed America, and the Town Obsessed with It
Different types of barbed wire on display at the Barbed Wire Museum in LaCrosse, Kansas. (Photo: David Howells/Getty Images) Could anything be less friendly than barbed wire? Its whole purpose is to...
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Why the First Cremation in the U.S. Was So Controversial
LeMoyne Crematory in Pennsylvania. (Photo: Lee Paxton/CC BY-SA 4.0)"Things were a little ghostly," wrote a reporter for the Philadelphia Times, setting the scene for a morbid public spectacle. The...
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Found: A Rare ‘Werewolf’ Kitten Born Without a Breeder
Here's Eyona. (Photo: TEARS Animal Rescue)In Cape Town, South Africa, volunteers for an animal rescue group have found a kitten belonging to what’s sometimes called the “world's rarest breed of...
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These Stunning Maps Highlight the Tricks in a Cartographer's Toolkit
46.0167° N, 7.7500° E, Bundesamt für Landestopografie, Zermatt, 1997. Scale 1:25,000 (shown at half size) . Cartographic Grounds, Princeton Architectural Press. (Photo: Harvard Map Collection/Harvard...
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Sydney’s Jazz Age Criminal Queens Ruled the Streets With Razors
The mugshots of Tilly Devine. (Photo: Courtesy State Archives of New South Wales)In the 1920s, Australia was under the dominion of British King George V. But on the streets of Sydney, two female...
View ArticleHundreds of Yellow Butterflies Attend Ceremony for Gabriel García Márquez's...
Telegraph Pics: Gabriel Garcia Marquez's ashes laid to rest in Cartagena, Colombia syndica… https://t.co/TrZzIJkLVQpic.twitter.com/0fCKbYe9my— Truth (@FindSource) May 23, 2016After the death of...
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India Launches Its First Space Shuttle
(Photo: ISRO)The international space race got a little hotter Monday, after India said they'd successfully launched a tiny space shuttle 43 miles into the air, taking another step forward in its...
View ArticleMars Will Soon Be the Closest It's Been to Earth in 11 Years
Mars is usually a long ways away: up to 250 million miles, in fact. But it can also get much closer, the distance varying according to its orbit. On May 30, according to NASA, that distance will be its...
View ArticleSee The Bosch Parade's Bizarre, Buoyant Works of Art
The skeleton of a mermaid floats down a river. A man rides a giant horn along the currents. A man desperately tries to put out the fire on his sinking boat. Though these images may feel as though they...
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A Dry Town Goes Wet After More Than a Century
Kelly Green Brewing Co. on Broadway in Pitman, NJ. (Photo: Jackson Kuhl)On its second night open, Kelly Green Brewing Co. unlocked its front door promptly at 5 p.m. By 5:05 the line from the bar...
View ArticleWatch a Drunk Man in a Zoo Enclosure Trying to Shake a Lion's Hand
Watch: ‘Drunk’ man jumps into lion’s cage at Hyderabad zoo, rescued unhurt https://t.co/D2J3wE4sB3pic.twitter.com/soagv1NgZJ— Hindustan Times (@htTweets) May 23, 2016There are some things that you...
View ArticleWatch Two Rare Albino Alligators Get Gnarlier Than Usual
In the chorus of her recent hit song "Formation," singer/dancer/force-of-nature Beyoncé implies that the animal incarnation of a "hater" is an albino alligator.Unlike haters, however, albino alligators...
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Found: A Hidden Population of Tasmanian Devils
A devil at rest. (Photo: Wayne McLean/CC BY 2.0)Tasmanian devils aren’t doing so hot. There’s only one known place in all of Tasmania where wild devils live without developing facial tumor disease, a...
View ArticleThis Relaxation Competition Finds Out Who Can Chill the Best
This past Sunday, at a public park in Seoul, dozens of citizens sat on small blue blankets, wearing athletic numbers and looking straight ahead. But they weren't stretching, hydrating, or otherwise...
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What the Most Alluring Women of 17th Century England Looked Like
A portrait gallery at Windsor Castle, royal residence of Charles II. (Image: Public Domain)On a wood-paneled wall in the Communications Gallery of London's Hampton Court Palace hang 10 portraits in a...
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How One Man's Desire to Flaunt His Wealth Became a Book of Psalms
A representation of a sheep's pen. (Photo: Unknown/Public Domain)Many people in the Middle Ages learned to read and worship by studying their psalters, or personal copies of the Book of Psalms, often...
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