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03.09.10 — Anticrepuscular rays or, as they are more commonly known, uh, sunbeams.
03.09.10 — A picture of strange-looking plant parasites.
03.09.10 — It's an island, a yacht, and a condo all in one. I am just a rock.
03.08.10 — Some oddities deserve a lot of really's in front of their cool's. For example, Blood Falls in Antarctica (thanks, @mcolombo).
03.07.10 — The mystery of the Mayan jade head (thanks, @HollyEdgell).
03.07.10 — Hotel cameos from famous movies.
03.07.10 — In Indiana, a 19th Century grave in the middle of the road (Thanks, Becky).
03.07.10 — The preserved baby woolly mammoth found in Siberia to go on display in U.S. for first time. Chicago is the lucky city.
03.07.10 — Secret snake discovered in a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I.
03.06.10 — Fossil found of a snake in the process of eating a nest full of baby dinosaurs. Something very Butterfly Effect about that.
03.03.10 — A baby tapir at the San Diego Zoo is what you'll see if you click the link.
03.02.10 — Nail from the crucifixion of Christ found...if you believe the Knights Templar it was buried with.
03.01.10 — Wales plans a gigantic dragon statue.
03.01.10 — In Australia, it rains fish.
03.01.10 — Dillinger and Capone memorabilia to be auctioned.
03.01.10 — Giant pharaoh head discovered in Egypt.
03.01.10 — H.P. Lovecraft birthday celebration.
02.28.10 — American Gothic Gigantica...from the artist who brought us The Awakening.
02.26.10 — Giant shark aquarium in Dubai cracks and causes mall evacuation.
02.24.10 — When in Australia, visit Cane Toad World.
02.24.10 — New Mexico finds itself home to the world's first spaceport, Spaceport America.
02.24.10 — An interactive map of London filming locations to visit. Because you've already seen Big Ben.
02.23.10 — The discovery of an 11,500-year-old temple in Turkey rewrites human history. What draft are we on again?
02.23.10 — Party in the Goondocks. In June, Astoria, OR, celebrates the 25th anniversary of The Goonies, which was filmed there.
02.20.10 — Apparently, Boston, MA, has its own real-life mysterious "Shutter Island."
02.20.10 — Ick, but hm. Serial killer Ted Bundy's VW Beetle goes on display at the National Museum of Crime and Punishment in Washington, D.C.
02.18.10 — Cool pics and account of a visit inside an abandoned submarine.
02.18.10 — An [art?] installation of buried Airstream RVs.
02.18.10 — An expedition to the paved streets of a California city that was never built.
02.18.10 — Coney Island to make a comeback.
02.18.10 — British government releases 6,000 pages of material from its 1990s-era UFO files. Worth checking out all the hand-drawn "eye-witness" images.
02.17.10 — The strange story of 36 rotting, vintage Corvettes.
02.17.10 — An ooky Charles Addams exhibit of original artwork goes on display in New York.
02.17.10 — Bronze-Age shipwreck discovered off the coast of Devon, UK.
02.17.10 — Tiny Indonesian flying lizard. Unnecessary Avatar reference.
02.15.10 — The skeleton of St. Anthony go on display in Italy. Includes Great pic of his skeleton surrounded by monks.
02.15.10 — Despite the contradiction in terms, this is what an "underwater skyscraper" might look like when the world goes all Waterworld on us.
02.15.10 — A motorcycle made from an alligator carcass. Running in zigzags won't help you with this one.
02.15.10 — The only immortal creature on earth can still be eaten by any random passing fish. It should have wished for indestructibility, too.
02.14.10 — Traveling exhibit on the detritus of love from the Museum of Broken Relationships. Happy Valentine's Day.
02.13.10 — Great pics of Disney's abandoned and derelict "River Country" water park.
02.12.10 — Largest crab in the UK is not something I would want to see coming at me in the ocean.
02.12.10 — First ever footage captured of a live oarfish, which at upwards of 50 feet, is the longest bony fish in the world and a possible source of sea serpent myths.
02.12.10 — The fish with the transparent head has hard time keeping thoughts to itself.
02.05.10 — The shortest street in the world.
02.05.10 — Giacometti sculpture sets new record for most expensive piece sold at auction. Take that, Picasso.
02.05.10 — Awesome and terrifying pics from the top of Mount Washington in New Hampshire, home of the world's worst weather.
02.05.10 — The Dresden Codex: The oldest book in the Americas.
02.05.10 — Centralia, PA, continues its slow death as more homes razed. See the 2007 O.T.I.S. article about the ever-burning ghost town here.
02.04.10 — Disguising an airplane factory as a rural subdivision.
02.04.10 — The Robonaut 2. That's right, a robot astronaut.
02.04.10 — 700-year-old stone houses in Iran.
02.02.10 — A volcanic island on a lake on an island on a lake on an island.
02.02.10 — New Peter Jackson King Kong ride at Universal Studios Hollywood to open this summer after original classic Kong ride destroyed in fire two years ago.
02.02.10 — Interesting sculpture of life-size nude female made out of typewriter parts.
01-31-10 — 245-pound, 43-inch-tall Great Dane. You need a real pet.
01.30.10 — "The World's Most Famous Unseen Diamond."
01.30.10 — European festivals that feature fire and vikings. Pretty cool pics.
01.30.10 — A power plant shaped like a volcano planned for the UK.
01.30.10 — Famous Texas Alamo Village outdoor movie set closes to general public after 50 years. John Wayne is sad.
01.27.10 —Historian believes he has found satellite evidence of the body of a man who might have conquered Everest three decades before Sir Edmund Hillary.
01.27.10 — Mount Washington in New Hampshire loses the "world's fastest wind" record to a typhoon in Australia. Previous record: 231 mph. New record: 253.
01.27.10 — ABBAWORLD.
01.27.10 — In 2007, somebody with a video camera made it into the courtyard of the secretive Skull and Bones Society Tomb at Yale University in New Haven, CT.
01.26.10 — "Sheep scuptures made out of rotary phones" just does not sum up how cool this art at the Museum of Telecommunication in Frankfurt, Germany is.
01.26.10 — The atrocious-looking blobfish is endangered. Scientists are trying to decide how they feel about this.
01.24.10 — Wisconsin's "Bigloo"...
01.24.10 — Manhattan Project sites considered for National Park status.
01.24.10 — The macabre treasures of St. Thomas Hospital in London.
01.24.10 — New book about the famously preserved Bog People.
01.24.10 — Atlanta Olympic Park bombing evidence on display at FBI headquarters.
01.24.10 — A treehouse mansion in Portland, OR. Great pics.
01.24.10 — Interior pics of the newly christened and posh Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the world's tallest tower.
01.24.10 — What a NASA garage sale looks like.
01.24.10 — Cool pics of an albino deer in the wilderness of Italy.
01.24.10 — Way cool underground house in Switzerland.
01.21.10 — The African Tree Sausage. That is all.
01.21.10 — Egyptian cat goddess temple unearthed.
01.21.10 — Mutant human cadaver washes ashore. It has begun.
01.21.10 — New virtual museum dedicated to 1600s anatomical artist debuts. Cool pics.
01.21.10 — Skeleton found that could be an English princess...and the oldest remains of any English royal so far discovered.
01.17.10 — What Poe looked like without his mustache.
01.17.10 — A tour of sites from children's literature.
01.17.10 — Ruins of America slideshow from Slate.com.
01.17.10 — Australian meteorite becomes the center of a controversy.
01.17.10 — Oldest and largest elm tree in New England loses battle to Dutch Elm Disease.
01.17.10 — Hawaii-owned moon rocks found. Many more still missing. All of them more valuable than you'd think for things just randomly given away decades ago.
01.17.10 — Cool marque from the upcoming Broadway run of The Addams Family musical.
01.17.10 — He-Man art show in California.
01.17.10 — The Doomsday Clock in New York...is kind of silly. Thanks, Our Greatest Minds.
01.16.10 — Awesome pics of a realistic-looking Back to the Future DeLorean parked outside the Pasadena house that stood in for Doc Brown's in the movie.
01.16.10 — This roll cloud in Uruguay makes me hate roofs.
01.12.10 — Rare, 400-year-old map of the world goes on display at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.
01.12.10 — The first creature known to science that makes chlorophyll like a plant.
01.12.10 — Israeli robots for the battlefield. These terrors don't take Yom Kippur off.
01.12.10 — 10 places in the world you're not allowed to visit...even though you really want to.
01.11.10 — El Dorado discovered...on Google Earth.
01.11.10 — Rare, naturally occurring snow tubes for your winter enjoyment.
01.11.10 — 73-year-old Bugatti pulled from lake and sold at auction. Pretty cool pics of it being dredged.
01.11.10 — New Egyptian tombs reveal that slaves were not used to build the the great pyramids, say objective Egyptian archaeologists with no heritage at stake.
01.06.10 — In case you haven't marveled today, the Harbin Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival.
01.06.10 — Scientists discover oldest footprints on earth.
01.06.10 — Jeweler designs finger rings with plants growing in them.
01.03.10 — If you have 867 pinball machines, of course you should open a museum.
01.03.10 — 1912 remains of first ever plane to Antarctica found.
01.03.10 — NASA preps in advance to dole out the space shuttles to museums.
01.03.10 — Three-story tall monument of 25 already famous people gets ready for Oakland.
12.26.09 — University of Minnesota holds the largest collection of Sherlock Holmes memorabilia in the world.
12.26.09 — Behind the scenes at Garner Holts Productions, the creators of animatronic creatures featured everywhere from Disneyland to Chuck E. Cheese.
12.26.09 — Mississippis Museum of Art hosts the "Jim Henson's Fantastic World" exhibit.
12.26.09 — Inside the Robot Hut, one man's completely understandable fascination with toy and movie robots.
12.13.09 — Hitler's six-wheeled Mercedes-Benz on display at the Lyon Air Museum in Costa Mesa, CA.
12.13.09 — First Peeps retail store opens in Oxon Hill, MD. Do people really love those things that much?
12.13.09 — Strange designer staircases that make you want to climb them. Like the bookcase stairs in particular.
12.13.09 — Private-collection props from the New Zealand film and television industry go on display...in New Zealand. Haven't seen a Hercules and Xena reference in a while.
01.06.10 — Skull-turned-ballot-box owned by the Skull and Bones Society to be auctioned.
01.06.10 — Roden Crater transformed into naked-eye observatory in Arizona.
01.03.10 — If you have 867 pinball machines, of course you should open a museum.
01.03.10 — 1912 remains of first ever plane to Antarctica found.
01.03.10 — NASA preps in advance to dole out the space shuttles to museums.
01.03.10 — Three-story tall monument of 25 already famous people gets ready for Oakland.
12.30.09 — Picasso's toy guitar found.
12.30.09 — Sea lions disappear from Pier 39 in San Francisco.
12.30.09 — Graceland Too in Holly Springs, MS.
12.30.09 — Filming locations for the highest grossing (domestic) movies of all time.
12.26.09 — Behind the scenes at Garner Holts Productions, the creators of animatronic creatures featured everywhere from Disneyland to Chuck E. Cheese.
12.26.09 — Mississippis Museum of Art hosts the "Jim Henson's Fantastic World" exhibit.
12.26.09 — Inside the Robot Hut, one man's completely understandable fascination with toy and movie robots.
12.13.09 — Hitler's six-wheeled Mercedes-Benz on display at the Lyon Air Museum in Costa Mesa, CA.
12.13.09 — First Peeps retail store opens in Oxon Hill, MD. Do people really love those things that much?
12.13.09 — Strange designer staircases that make you want to climb them. Like the bookcase stairs in particular.
12.13.09 — Private-collection props from the New Zealand film and television industry go on display...in New Zealand. Haven't seen a Hercules and Xena reference in a while.
12.05.09 — Relics from "Black Sam" Bellamy's wrecked pirate ship on display in Norfolk, VA.
12.05.09 — A prehistoric, giant crystal under Manhattan Island is just waiting to be turned into a data network.
12.05.09 — Lichtenberg figures in acrylic blocks from artist Bert Hickman.
12.05.09 — The home of the Allman Brothers in Macon, GA, becomes a museum dedicated to them.
12.05.09 — The stories behind some of the strangest-looking houses in the world are even stranger.
12.03.09 — Brazil town beats average global twin rate by 1,000 percent. Some say it was a Nazi experiment.
12.03.09 — Cool pop culture museum in Baltimore, MD.
12.03.09 — World's tallest building to open next month in Dubai.
12.03.09 — Prohibition-era bowling alley found in a basement in Queens, NY.
12.03.09 — Richmond's contribution to the Year of Poe.
11.27.09 — A crystal Lexus from the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show.
11.27.09 — The history of Bannerman's Castle on Pollepel Castle in New York.
11.27.09 — Mysterious calf mutilations puzzle everyone except UFO enthusiasts.
11.27.09 — Harry Potter exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science through February 21, 2010.
11.27.09 — Theatre of Dionysos to be restored.
11.24.09 — Future museum of storytelling in Oxford, UK.
11.24.09 — Prisoner artists.
11.24.09 — World's largest earthquake-safe building.
11.24.09 — Rice paddy art.
11.23.09 — Way cool murals from around the world.
11.23.09 — A diamond-encrusted toilet and other of the world's most expensive toilets.
11.23.09 — Ornate wooden abandoned houses in Russia that are untouched due to their wilderness location.
11.21.09 — Death masks of the famous.
11.21.09 — A photo essay on the ever-photogenic redwoods.
11.21.09 — You can take down the "Missing" posters. Galileo's lost body parts found.
11.21.09 — Text found on Shroud of Turin.
11.21.09 — Hyper-realistic sculptures of the human form. Our bodies terrify me.
11.21.09 — First ever image of lightning emanating from a volcano. Our planet terrifies me.
11.19.09 — Rat croc, duck crock, and pancake croc: Crazy, ancient crocodiles from the Sahara. Nice pic included.
11.19.09 — Morbidly cool art exhibit at an abattoir in London.
11.19.09 — Amazing-looking new museum opens in Armenia: "Imagine an Art Deco version of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon stretching nearly the height of the Empire State Building."
11.19.09 — Great pics from Tim Burton's artshow opening at the MoMA in New York. Includes props and artwork.
11.19.09 — Ghost trees in Trafalgar Square in London.
11.17.09 — Boneworms that feed off whale carcasses in the ocean darkness are my new nightmare. Actually, they're pretty little things.
11.17.09 — A hotel in France that treats its guests like hamsters, which is French for, well, hamsters.
11.17.09 — A guy in Florida shows off pictures of the sea monster he's been seeing. Wife is devastated by the news.
11.11.09 — Awesome photos from last night's major black-out in Brazil.
11.11.09 — The unlikely location of the highest wind ever observed by man.
11.11.09 — Ominous black plants, including the Dracula Vampire Orchid.
11.11.09 — Strange money trees in England.
11.10.09 — Unused International Space Station escape pod given to the Strategic Air and Space Museum in Ashland, Nebraska.
11.10.09 — Giant magma plug fortress in Sri Lanka.
11.09.09 — How Vermont almost got the first domed city in history.
11.09.09 — Discovery of hundreds of bones in the desert could be a Persian army lost 2,500 years ago.
11.09.09 — Couple in Rome discover 500-year-old frescoes underneath the plaster of their apartment walls.
11.09.09 — The oddities and rarities of the New York Public Library, including the letter opener of Charles Dickens, made from the embalmed paw of his pet cat, and the cane that Virginia Woolf left on the riverbank the day she committed suicide.
11.06.09 — Drug lord's home in Colombia turned into an amusement park.
11.06.09 — A combination mace and gun from the early 1500s called the "holy water sprinkler."
11.06.09 — The haunting works of sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
11.06.09 — The Bolas de Fuego festival in El Salvador, where people throw fire at each other.
11.06.09 — Touring some famous filming locations in California.
11.04.09 — The sun hates the Tomb of the Black Prince.
11.04.09 — Some cool museums for your perusal.
11.04.09 — Beware the bald bears.
11.04.09 — Skeleton statues in the subway.
11.04.09 — Amazing insect photography.
11.02.09 — Chesterfield, MO, gets the honor of a second casting of J. Seward's giant sculpture, The Awakening. Read about the original, currently located at the National Harbor in Maryland, here on O.T.I.S.
11.02.09 — An article on people who visit cemeteries for kicks.
11.02.09 — Holes in the Earth.
11.02.09 — The Museum of Death in Los Angeles, CA: "Possessions of serial killers, the mummified heads of decapitated mass murders, and such things as photos of celebrity crime and autopsy scenes."
10.24.09 — Largest web-spinning spider known to science found in Africa.
10.24.09 — The fossils of the tiniest dinosaur known to science on display in Los Angeles, CA.
10.24.09 — Walk through the Guardian of Forever in San Jose, CA.
10.24.09 — Crazy plans for a giant floating airport off the coast of California.
10.24.09 — The market for holy relics.
10.21.09 — A robot blob for defending the nation, courtesy of the Pentagon's DARPA.
10.21.09 — V...coming to the skies above a national monument near you.
10.21.09 — Original science fiction movie costumes on display at the California Museum in Sacramento.
10.21.09 — There's no place like...Chernobyl.
10.09.09 — Video of a Beluga Whale blowing bubbles on command.
10.13.09 — Couches made of cactus, chairs made of radiators, and other furniture that'll make you go ouch.
10.13.09 — Indianapolis, IN, throws festival in city cemetery.
10.13.09 — A look at the infamous history of the FeeJee mermaid.
10.13.09 — A set of stairs made out of giant working piano keys in Stockholm.
10.06.09 — Infrared footage of 500,000 bats. Whoah.
10.06.09 — Camoflauge art. Looks pretty amazing...if you can see it.
10.06.09 — This is what it looks like when a missile silo is converted into a house.
10.06.09 — 100-year-anniversary cruise in 2012 will follow the course of the Titanic. Well, mostly.
10.05.09 — Intact, frozen woolly mammoth baby headed to Chicago for exhibit.
10.05.09 — Sometimes the only tool for the job is a gigantic machine.
10.04.09 — Rainforest sculptures in Olinda, Australia look positively lost city-ish.
10.04.09 — Awesome playgrounds of the 1970s.
10.03.09 — What happened to the Michael Jackson Neverland rides? You're probably riding them.
10.03.09 — 500-carat diamond found in a mine in South Africa.
10.01.09 — Hitler's skull found to be that of a woman. Repeat. We do not have Hitler's skull.
10.01.09 — Jaw-dropping white Bengal tiger attack shots.
10.12.09 — Mysterious halo in the skies above Moscow.
10.12.09 — Disgusting blobs make the ocean, well, disgusting.
10.09.09 — Taxidermied chupacabra goes on display in October at the Lost World Museum in Phoenix, NY.
10.09.09 — A mainstream media tour of famous cemeteries.
10.09.09 — The discovery of a second Stonehenge near the first means now we got a matching set.
10.06.09 — Infrared footage of 500,000 bats. Whoah.
10.06.09 — Camoflauge art. Looks pretty amazing...if you can see it.
10.06.09 — This is what it looks like when a missile silo is converted into a house.
10.06.09 — 100-year-anniversary cruise in 2012 will follow the course of the Titanic. Well, mostly.
10.05.09 — Intact, frozen woolly mammoth baby headed to Chicago for exhibit.
10.05.09 — Sometimes the only tool for the job is a gigantic machine.
10.04.09 — Rainforest sculptures in Olinda, Australia look positively lost city-ish.
10.04.09 — Awesome playgrounds of the 1970s.
10.03.09 — What happened to the Michael Jackson Neverland rides? You're probably riding them.
10.03.09 — 500-carat diamond found in a mine in South Africa.
10.01.09 — Hitler's skull found to be that of a woman. Repeat. We do not have Hitler's skull.
10.01.09 — Jaw-dropping white Bengal tiger attack shots.
09.30.09 — I usually don't make many demands, but you've gotta see these skulls and skeletons created out of cassette tapes by artist Brian Dettmer.
09.30.09 — Dwarves (dwarfs?) in China look to end discrimination and stereotyping by forming their own community...in which they dress like fairy tale characters, live in mushroom houses, and charge admission.
09.29.09 — Ancient, decapitated skeletons of over 50 men found in an old quarry in the UK with their skulls in piles.
09.29.09 — Amazing billboards that make me okay with visual pollution.
09.28.09 — Al Capone's Wisconsin hide-out on the market.
09.28.09 — Modern feats of building architecture that look like they'll fall over any minute.
09.28.09 — Drain-dwellers in Las Vegas.
09.28.09 — Rare cloth made from the silk of one million spiders on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
09.24.09 — Astounding Halloween scarecrow art.
09.24.09 — Coast-to-coast science fiction road trip map.
09.24.09 — Latest accidental giant squid catch.
09.24.09 — Australia as Mars.
09.23.09 — Strange bus stops worth waiting at.
09.23.09 — How Germany does an upside-down house.
09.18.09 — Bermuda Triangle solved. Everything just crashed.
09.18.09 — Prehistoric hominid skulls make us throw out ancient history books...again.
09.18.09 — Lost world of crazy creatures found in secluded volcanic crater.
09.10.09 — Way intriguing abandoned and rotting island city in Japan.
09.10.09 — One of the many "top coolest statues" lists circulating on the Internet. Every list is correct.
09.04.09 — Waterfall caverns for the delight of aquaphobes and claustrophobes.
09.04.09 — Incident at Exeter celebrated with first Exeter UFO Festival.
09.04.09 — War World II bunkers get turned into residences in Germany.
09.04.09 — Don't you fear the Yetis in Rio?
09.04.09 — Doomsday seed vault in the Arctic because, well, you never know.
09.04.09 — I can think of way more uses for robot fish than MIT can.
08.28.09 — Gov. Schwarzenegger keeps "Conan" sword at arm's reach in his office.
08.28.09 — Naturally occuring miracle fruit (actual name) makes everything taste sweet for up to half an hour.
08.28.09 — Behold the Mozart pee-stone in Austria.
08.28.09 — Loch Ness Monster found on Google Earth. Or something else. Probably anything else.
08.24.09 — Scuba divers under mosque in Istanbul find 800-year-old submerged graves of cannonized children.
08.24.09 — The Hope Diamond is getting a new setting, and we get to choose.
08.24.09 — Muck monster sighted. Or normal water animal not sighted.
08.18.09 — Man regularly cuddles with half a ton of crocodile. His death is worth those pics.
08.18.09 — Haunted Poe House. Part Theater. Part Haunted House. All Poe.
08.18.09 — Eerily preserved, 17-foot-long Xiphactinus about to go on display. It's an extinct fish with three-inch-long teeth. Pic included.
08.14.09 — Spooky abandoned subway stations.
08.14.09 — Meet a meteorite broker.
08.14.09 — The unbelieveable railway track market of Samut Songkhram in Thailand.
08.13.09 — New species of giant carnivorous plant discovered. I originally mistyped "plant" as "planet." Holy cow.
08.13.09 — 3,000-year-old Egyptian bust looks like Michael Jackson. I'm actually going to have to agree on this one.
08.13.09 — The under-appreciated cemeteries of Montreal, Quebec.
07.23.09 — Photo essay on the most alien landscapes on Earth.
07.23.09 — You knew about Rennaissance Festivals. What about Faerieworlds?
07.23.09 — Old gravestone in Milford, CT, with macabre inscription stolen then found.
07.07.09 — Super-security graveyard of the stars that may become Michael Jackson's final resting place.
07.07.09 — Michael Jackson-relevant sites around the world.
07.07.09 — Thriller filming locations courtesy of Google Street View.
06.25.09 — New documentary released on the Centralia mine fire.
06.25.09 — Egyptian mummies at the Musée de la civilisation in Quebec City, Canada.
06.25.09 — Adolf Hitler tree involved in controversy.
06.11.09 — The creation of a giant, life-sized Gundam in Japan.
06.11.09 — A visit to the imminently opening corpse flower at the Huntingdon Library in San Marino. More info here.
06.11.09 — Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh opens Roboworld, featuring a robot hall of fame.
06.03.09 — Ridiculously cool used-tire art.
06.03.09 — Gigantic crop circle jellyfish in England.
06.03.09 — Smallpox hospital ruins on Roosevelt Island in NY to be preservered.
05.26.09 — House where Cameron trashes a Ferrari in Ferris Bueller's Day Off for sale.
05.26.09 — The real-life search for Pee-Wee Herman's bike doesn't fall for Alamo basement answer.
05.26.09 — 3D murals make me walk into walls.
05.05.09 — An article on the CIA-commissioned sculpture that even the CIA can't crack.
05.05.09 — Random big things that attract tourists.
05.05.09 — Stu of Doom visits the Jim Thorpe Memorial and its irrelevant home.
04.28.09 — The strange story behind the Georgia Guidestones makes them seem a lot cooler than they probably are.
04.28.09 — Photos of the Bermuda Triangle and other "mystery spots."
04.28.09 — World to get first official alien embassy and UFO landing base...in Kazakhstan.
04.18.09 — Salem, MA, pondering a "Bewitched Museum."
04.18.09 — University of New Hampshire displaying infamous Betty Hill dress.
04.18.09 — Underwater Jesus in the Mediterranean has hands chopped off.
04.12.09 — Museum of Human Disease opens in Sydney, Australia, and features real cadaver parts.
04.12.09 — House in Austria is painted entirely in a single shade of blue.
04.12.09 — Hollywood Wax Museum in California auctioning off some of its exhibits.
04.12.09 — Classified test pilots from Area 51 in Roswell, NM, spill their secrets.
04.12.09 — Funerary archeologist at work in the crypt under the Old North Church in Boston, MA.
04.12.09 — Fremont Troll in Seattle, WA, defaced and then refaced.
04.08.09 — Live, interactive stream of Dan Aykroyd in Wayne, NJ, at an autograph event for his Crystal Head Vodka on Saturday, April 11, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
04.08.09 — Lost Ark of the Covenant lost again. Damned Nazis.
04.08.09 — A way-more-interesting-than-you'd-think look at the subject of security for the public display of moon rocks.
04.02.09 — The decrepit childhood home of Jimmi Hendrix in Seattle, WA, dismantled after restoration efforts fail. Wood from it destined to be made into bad-ass guitars.
04.02.09 — A brief look at three of the big cryptid "finds" from recent years.
04.02.09 — Documentary on Rodin's The Gates of Hell released. Brush up with the O.T.I.S article on the sculpture here.
03.31.09 — An underwater restaurant in Maldives.
03.31.09 — Tent cities in California.
03.31.09 — Artist fined for his inflatable art installation in the UK that broke its moorings, flew around a park, and killed two women in 2006. Pictures of the installation can be found here.
03.26.09 — Disorienting architecture to help humans achieve immortality in New York.
03.26.09 — Stu of Doom visits abandoned silos in Toms River, NJ.
03.26.09 — Detroit Science Center hosts Star Trek exhibition through September.
03.25.09 — Some guy's trip to Chernobyl. Bad-ass to a degree I don't have the superscript for.
03.25.09 — Underrated 9/11 memorial, compliments of Russia in Bayonne, NJ.
03.25.09 — On the border of Arizona and Utah, petrified sand dunes make me hate the mundane stuff I see every day.
03.18.09 — Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, MD, is exhibiting Poe memorabilia for the Year of the Poe. Items include pieces of his original casket, locks of hair from his wife, and various original manuscripts and letters.
03.18.09 — "A bizarre hospital-themed restaurant in Latvia is serving food resembling body parts with surgical utensils."
03.18.09 — Oddities in Phoenix, AZ, feature a mystery castle, hauntings, and a lost gold mine. According to this half-hearted piece, anyway.
03.17.09 — Amazing shots of abandoned buildings in Detroit, MI.
03.17.09 — The town that was the Weyburn Mental Hospital in Saskatchewan, Canada.
03.17.09 — Corpse Flower to bloom in New Hampshire...no public display scheduled due to March temperatures. The sound you're hearing is my limp body being dragged through the shards of my broken dreams.
03.09.09 — University of VA in Charlottesville gets E.A. Poe letter where he apologizes to publishers for drinking too many juleps.
03.09.09 — Horror film script writer to ring the door on the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, CA.
03.09.09 — Michael Jackson's got some cool stuff going on display and then under the gavel in Beverly Hills, CA, in April. I highly recommend Sessions V-VIII.
03.03.09 — Museum of Funeral Customs in Springfield, IL, headed for closure.
03.03.09 — Visiting the original Legoland in Billund, Denmark.
03.03.09 — Minor leaguer traded for 10 baseball bats. Becomes depressed, overdoses on, well, everything, and dies. Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum buys the bats. New exhibit coming soon.
09.18.09 — Concept art for the next year's new Harry Potter theme park at Universal Studios Orlando.
09.18.09 — Save Ferris Bueller's house.
09.18.09 — Latest crazy-looking dead monster "photo but no corpse" evidence...this time in Panama.
09.18.09 — Prehistoric hominid skulls make us throw out ancient history books...again.
09.18.09 — Lost world of crazy creatures found in secluded volcanic crater.
09.10.09 — Way intriguing abandoned and rotting island city in Japan.
09.10.09 — One of the many "top coolest statues" lists circulating on the Internet. Every list is correct.
09.04.09 — Waterfall caverns for the delight of aquaphobes and claustrophobes.
09.04.09 — Incident at Exeter celebrated with first Exeter UFO Festival.
09.04.09 — War World II bunkers get turned into residences in Germany.
09.04.09 — Don't you fear the Yetis in Rio?
09.04.09 — Doomsday seed vault in the Arctic because, well, you never know.
09.04.09 — I can think of way more uses for robot fish than MIT can.
08.28.09 — Gov. Schwarzenegger keeps "Conan" sword at arm's reach in his office.
08.28.09 — Naturally occuring miracle fruit (actual name) makes everything taste sweet for up to half an hour.
08.28.09 — Behold the Mozart pee-stone in Austria.
08.28.09 — Loch Ness Monster found on Google Earth. Or something else. Probably anything else.
08.24.09 — Scuba divers under mosque in Istanbul find 800-year-old submerged graves of cannonized children.
08.24.09 — The Hope Diamond is getting a new setting, and we get to choose.
08.24.09 — Muck monster sighted. Or normal water animal not sighted.
08.18.09 — Man regularly cuddles with half a ton of crocodile. His death is worth those pics.
08.18.09 — Haunted Poe House. Part Theater. Part Haunted House. All Poe.
08.18.09 — Eerily preserved, 17-foot-long Xiphactinus about to go on display. It's an extinct fish with three-inch-long teeth. Pic included.
08.14.09 — Spooky abandoned subway stations.
08.14.09 — Meet a meteorite broker.
08.14.09 — The unbelieveable railway track market of Samut Songkhram in Thailand.
08.13.09 — New species of giant carnivorous plant discovered. I originally mistyped "plant" as "planet." Holy cow.
08.13.09 — 3,000-year-old Egyptian bust looks like Michael Jackson. I'm actually going to have to agree on this one.
08.13.09 — The under-appreciated cemeteries of Montreal, Quebec.
07.23.09 — Photo essay on the most alien landscapes on Earth.
07.23.09 — You knew about Rennaissance Festivals. What about Faerieworlds?
07.23.09 — Old gravestone in Milford, CT, with macabre inscription stolen then found.
07.07.09 — Super-security graveyard of the stars that may become Michael Jackson's final resting place.
07.07.09 — Michael Jackson-relevant sites around the world.
07.07.09 — Thriller filming locations courtesy of Google Street View.
06.25.09 — New documentary released on the Centralia mine fire.
06.25.09 — Egyptian mummies at the Musée de la civilisation in Quebec City, Canada.
06.25.09 — Adolf Hitler tree involved in controversy.
06.11.09 — The creation of a giant, life-sized Gundam in Japan.
06.11.09 — A visit to the imminently opening corpse flower at the Huntingdon Library in San Marino. More info here.
06.11.09 — Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh opens Roboworld, featuring a robot hall of fame.
06.03.09 — Ridiculously cool used-tire art.
06.03.09 — Gigantic crop circle jellyfish in England.
06.03.09 — Smallpox hospital ruins on Roosevelt Island in NY to be preservered.
05.26.09 — House where Cameron trashes a Ferrari in Ferris Bueller's Day Off for sale.
05.26.09 — The real-life search for Pee-Wee Herman's bike doesn't fall for Alamo basement answer.
05.26.09 — 3D murals make me walk into walls.
05.05.09 — An article on the CIA-commissioned sculpture that even the CIA can't crack.
05.05.09 — Random big things that attract tourists.
05.05.09 — Stu of Doom visits the Jim Thorpe Memorial and its irrelevant home.
04.28.09 — The strange story behind the Georgia Guidestones makes them seem a lot cooler than they probably are.
04.28.09 — Photos of the Bermuda Triangle and other "mystery spots."
04.28.09 — World to get first official alien embassy and UFO landing base...in Kazakhstan.
04.18.09 — Salem, MA, pondering a "Bewitched Museum."
04.18.09 — University of New Hampshire displaying infamous Betty Hill dress.
04.18.09 — Underwater Jesus in the Mediterranean has hands chopped off.
04.12.09 — Museum of Human Disease opens in Sydney, Australia, and features real cadaver parts.
04.12.09 — House in Austria is painted entirely in a single shade of blue.
04.12.09 — Hollywood Wax Museum in California auctioning off some of its exhibits.
04.12.09 — Classified test pilots from Area 51 in Roswell, NM, spill their secrets.
04.12.09 — Funerary archeologist at work in the crypt under the Old North Church in Boston, MA.
04.12.09 — Fremont Troll in Seattle, WA, defaced and then refaced.
04.08.09 — Live, interactive stream of Dan Aykroyd in Wayne, NJ, at an autograph event for his Crystal Head Vodka on Saturday, April 11, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
04.08.09 — Lost Ark of the Covenant lost again. Damned Nazis.
04.08.09 — A way-more-interesting-than-you'd-think look at the subject of security for the public display of moon rocks.
04.02.09 — The decrepit childhood home of Jimmi Hendrix in Seattle, WA, dismantled after restoration efforts fail. Wood from it destined to be made into bad-ass guitars.
04.02.09 — A brief look at three of the big cryptid "finds" from recent years.
04.02.09 — Documentary on Rodin's The Gates of Hell released. Brush up with the O.T.I.S article on the sculpture here.
03.31.09 — An underwater restaurant in Maldives.
03.31.09 — Tent cities in California.
03.31.09 — Artist fined for his inflatable art installation in the UK that broke its moorings, flew around a park, and killed two women in 2006. Pictures of the installation can be found here.
03.26.09 — Disorienting architecture to help humans achieve immortality in New York.
03.26.09 — Stu of Doom visits abandoned silos in Toms River, NJ.
03.26.09 — Detroit Science Center hosts Star Trek exhibition through September.
03.25.09 — Some guy's trip to Chernobyl. Bad-ass to a degree I don't have the superscript for.
03.25.09 — Underrated 9/11 memorial, compliments of Russia in Bayonne, NJ.
03.25.09 — On the border of Arizona and Utah, petrified sand dunes make me hate the mundane stuff I see every day.
03.18.09 — Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, MD, is exhibiting Poe memorabilia for the Year of the Poe. Items include pieces of his original casket, locks of hair from his wife, and various original manuscripts and letters.
03.18.09 — "A bizarre hospital-themed restaurant in Latvia is serving food resembling body parts with surgical utensils."
03.18.09 — Oddities in Phoenix, AZ, feature a mystery castle, hauntings, and a lost gold mine. According to this half-hearted piece, anyway.
03.17.09 — Amazing shots of abandoned buildings in Detroit, MI.
03.17.09 — The town that was the Weyburn Mental Hospital in Saskatchewan, Canada.
03.17.09 — Corpse Flower to bloom in New Hampshire...no public display scheduled due to March temperatures. The sound you're hearing is my limp body being dragged through the shards of my broken dreams.
03.09.09 — University of VA in Charlottesville gets E.A. Poe letter where he apologizes to publishers for drinking too many juleps.
03.09.09 — Horror film script writer to ring the door on the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, CA.
03.09.09 — Michael Jackson's got some cool stuff going on display and then under the gavel in Beverly Hills, CA, in April. I highly recommend Sessions V-VIII.
03.03.09 — Museum of Funeral Customs in Springfield, IL, headed for closure.
03.03.09 — Visiting the original Legoland in Billund, Denmark.
03.03.09 — Minor leaguer traded for 10 baseball bats. Becomes depressed, overdoses on, well, everything, and dies. Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum buys the bats. New exhibit coming soon.
