05.22.12 — Remains of a car-sized prehistoric turtle found in a coal mine in Colombia.
05.22.12 — Recently discovered Native American skulls returned to America from England.
05.22.12 — An exhibition of invisible art in London.
05.19.12 — Abandoned Metro tunnel in Paris converted to massive advert for Ridley Scott's Prometheus movie.
05.18.12 — A 200-year-old shipwreck found in Gulf of Mexico.
05.18.12 — China's famous terra-cotta army...in color.
05.18.12 — UK house where Winnie the Pooh was written and the Rolling Stones' Brian Jones drowned is for sale.
05.13.12 — Preserved WW2 fighter plane found in the Sahara.
05.13.12 — Map-based mural locator. Pretty cool idea.
05.13.12 — Massive Disney exhibit of artifacts from the movies and theme parks to open this summer in California.
05.13.12 — Tokyo celebrates festival with 100,000 floating LEDs.
05.08.12 — 425-year-old map makes lost Roanoke colony newsworthy again.
05.05.12 — Massive Marilyn Monroe statue moving from Chicago to California. Here's my visit to it.
05.05.12 — A one-day conference in Rome this month celebrates the 100 year anniversary of the discovery of the strange Voynich Manuscript.
05.05.12 — Disneyland Paris to get Star Wars Land.
05.02.12 — A Google Street View tour of the inside of the oddball Archie McPhee store in Seattle, WA.
05.02.12 — Otzi the, the 5,300-year-old ice mummy in Italy has the oldest blood on record.
04.30.12 — Hammer Studios to shoot at Winchester Mystery House for new haunted house flick.
04.30.12 — How the Villisca Ax Murders might be saving Villisca.
04.30.12 — One World Trade Center becomes tallest building in NYC today.
04.29.12 — Lincoln's opera glasses from "that night" for sale.
04.28.12 — DARPA to auction the stealth ship that inspired its counterpart in Tomorrow Never Dies...for scrap.
04.27.12 — MacGyver's floating house for sale.
04.26.12 — Stonehenge bouncy house in Glasgow.
04.26.12 — Egyptian Book of the Dead fragment found in Australia.
04.26.12 — A private collection in California of typewriters of the famous.
04.23.12 — First ever wild white killer whale spotted, off Russia.
04.23.12 — Pretty awesome abandoned asylum footage from undisclosed location.
04.23.12 — Not to be redundant, but Milan has a cool eyeball sculpture.
04.23.12 — Boston chooses design for its Edgar Allan Poe memorial. It's Bad-Ass Poe.
04.20.12 — Massive, 20-foot-long great white shark caught in Sea of Cortez.
04.20.12 — Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia opens in Michigan.
04.20.12 — A strange geothermal hot water beach in New Zealand.
04.18.12 — Mark Cline's Haunted Monster Museum in Natural Bridge, VA, burns to the ground.
04.18.12 — The story of the hidden Vatican crypt that holds either a mobster or a murder victim.
04.18.12 — Strawberry leopard discovered in South Africa.
04.18.12 — Rare statue of possible victorious female gladiator discovered.
04.17.12 — Space shuttle Discovery touches down at Dulles for its museum retirement.
04.16.12 — Original manuscript for Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde that reveals a more sordid story goes on display at British Library.
04.14.12 — Zoo in Gaza features mummified animals.
04.14.12 — Paris exhibit on voodoo priests and shamans, both primitive and modern.
04.14.12 — A look at some of the most mysterious shipwrecks on the ocean floor.
04.12.12 — Mummified arm of civil war soldier donated to Maryland museum.
04.10.12 — Japan's Suicide Forest back in the news...with eerie footage.
04.07.12 — The world came this close to a life-sized Starship Enterprise attraction in Las Vegas.
04.04.12 — New exhibit at the London Natural History Museum shows off the insides of preserved animals Body World-style.
04.04.12 — Artist sculpts life-sized glass skeleton filled with blue electricity.
03.31.12 — The lease i sup on the graves of Hitler's parents.
03.31.12 — A Japanese beach full of vibrantly glowing squid.
03.27.12 — Amazing "shore sculptures" by artist Andres Amador.
05.22.12 — Recently discovered Native American skulls returned to America from England.
05.22.12 — An exhibition of invisible art in London.
05.19.12 — Abandoned Metro tunnel in Paris converted to massive advert for Ridley Scott's Prometheus movie.
05.18.12 — A 200-year-old shipwreck found in Gulf of Mexico.
05.18.12 — China's famous terra-cotta army...in color.
05.18.12 — UK house where Winnie the Pooh was written and the Rolling Stones' Brian Jones drowned is for sale.
05.13.12 — Preserved WW2 fighter plane found in the Sahara.
05.13.12 — Map-based mural locator. Pretty cool idea.
05.13.12 — Massive Disney exhibit of artifacts from the movies and theme parks to open this summer in California.
05.13.12 — Tokyo celebrates festival with 100,000 floating LEDs.
05.08.12 — 425-year-old map makes lost Roanoke colony newsworthy again.
05.05.12 — Massive Marilyn Monroe statue moving from Chicago to California. Here's my visit to it.
05.05.12 — A one-day conference in Rome this month celebrates the 100 year anniversary of the discovery of the strange Voynich Manuscript.
05.05.12 — Disneyland Paris to get Star Wars Land.
05.02.12 — A Google Street View tour of the inside of the oddball Archie McPhee store in Seattle, WA.
05.02.12 — Otzi the, the 5,300-year-old ice mummy in Italy has the oldest blood on record.
04.30.12 — Hammer Studios to shoot at Winchester Mystery House for new haunted house flick.
04.30.12 — How the Villisca Ax Murders might be saving Villisca.
04.30.12 — One World Trade Center becomes tallest building in NYC today.
04.29.12 — Lincoln's opera glasses from "that night" for sale.
04.28.12 — DARPA to auction the stealth ship that inspired its counterpart in Tomorrow Never Dies...for scrap.
04.27.12 — MacGyver's floating house for sale.
04.26.12 — Stonehenge bouncy house in Glasgow.
04.26.12 — Egyptian Book of the Dead fragment found in Australia.
04.26.12 — A private collection in California of typewriters of the famous.
04.23.12 — First ever wild white killer whale spotted, off Russia.
04.23.12 — Pretty awesome abandoned asylum footage from undisclosed location.
04.23.12 — Not to be redundant, but Milan has a cool eyeball sculpture.
04.23.12 — Boston chooses design for its Edgar Allan Poe memorial. It's Bad-Ass Poe.
04.20.12 — Massive, 20-foot-long great white shark caught in Sea of Cortez.
04.20.12 — Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia opens in Michigan.
04.20.12 — A strange geothermal hot water beach in New Zealand.
04.18.12 — Mark Cline's Haunted Monster Museum in Natural Bridge, VA, burns to the ground.
04.18.12 — The story of the hidden Vatican crypt that holds either a mobster or a murder victim.
04.18.12 — Strawberry leopard discovered in South Africa.
04.18.12 — Rare statue of possible victorious female gladiator discovered.
04.17.12 — Space shuttle Discovery touches down at Dulles for its museum retirement.
04.16.12 — Original manuscript for Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde that reveals a more sordid story goes on display at British Library.
04.14.12 — Zoo in Gaza features mummified animals.
04.14.12 — Paris exhibit on voodoo priests and shamans, both primitive and modern.
04.14.12 — A look at some of the most mysterious shipwrecks on the ocean floor.
04.12.12 — Mummified arm of civil war soldier donated to Maryland museum.
04.10.12 — Japan's Suicide Forest back in the news...with eerie footage.
04.07.12 — The world came this close to a life-sized Starship Enterprise attraction in Las Vegas.
04.04.12 — New exhibit at the London Natural History Museum shows off the insides of preserved animals Body World-style.
04.04.12 — Artist sculpts life-sized glass skeleton filled with blue electricity.
03.31.12 — The lease i sup on the graves of Hitler's parents.
03.31.12 — A Japanese beach full of vibrantly glowing squid.
03.27.12 — Amazing "shore sculptures" by artist Andres Amador.
03.27.12 — Japanese ghost ship sighted off British Columbia.
03.27.12 — Massive book sculpture in Spain.
03.27.12 — Historic Hollywood studio to be demolished.
03.26.12 — Believers converge on a mountain in France under the assumption it'll be a spaceship that saves them from the apocalypse.
03.26.12 — 20-year-old Hobbit-themed pub in UK gets its copyright settlement paid by The Hobbit movie actors.
03.26.12 — Narnia-themed playroom complete with wardrobe door.
03.25.12 — James Cameron becomes third person in history to deepest part of the ocean and first to do it solo.
03.23.12 — The exotic and strange fare at the 108th Explorer's Club annual dinner in New York.
03.23.12 — Real-life Scooby Doo Mystery Machine for sale in California.
03.23.12 — New segment of Great Wall of China found...outside of China.
03.23.12 — Halloween producer Moustapha Akkad gets a memorial bench in front of the house where they filmed the movie.
03.22.12 — Fluorescent millipedes found on Alcatraz during night-time rat census. Favorite headline ever.
03.20.12 — Atlas Obscura's Obscura Day 2012 events officially announced.
03.20.12 — Astounding 3D virtual tours of the buildings of the Vatican. You won't leave the Sistine Chapel for days.
03.18.12 — The ruins of a Los Angeles bunker intended to be a Nazi headquarters.
03.10.12 — A haunted house convention in St. Louis.
03.09.12 — UK artist makes carves trees into amazing sculptures in the woods.
03.07.12 — The journals of Lizzie Borden's lawyer come to light.
03.07.12 — The story of a giant, terrifying-looking bug on a secluded, terrifying-looking island.
03.07.12 — Massive spiderwebs blanket Australian town.
03.05.12 — Optimus Prime in snow.
03.04.12 — Discounted Dahmer tour in Milwaukee yields mainstream controversy.
03.04.12 — Saint's heart stolen from Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin.
03.04.12 — FAO Schwartz exhibits classic toys in Manhattan.
03.02.12 — Ancient 12-foot robot gorilla suddenly appears on back road in England.
02.21.12 — Only privately held copy of Munch's The Scream to be auctioned.
02.21.12 — New Edward Gorey exhibit in New York.
02.21.12 — The strange tale of Sargent Johnson's carved redwood panel.
02.18.12 — Illinois mall used in Blues Brothers to be torn down.
02.18.12 — River in Beirut turns red.
02.18.12 — A driveable R2-D2, courtesy of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
02.14.12 — Witchcraft trial in Germany resumes after 400 years.
02.14.12 — Amazing pictures of the wonders of Arizona on its centennial.
02.14.12 — World Sword Swallowers Day 2012 events at Ripley's around the country and in the UK.
02.10.12 — Unique 400-year-old explanation for lake monsters.
02.10.12 — Everything you wanted to know about bird mummies.
02.10.12 — Drive-through funeral parlor in Los Angeles.
02.09.12 — New species of corpse flower found on an island off Madagascar.
02.07.12 — Diseased brain exhibit in Peru.
02.07.12 — A look at Mary Ann Cotton, Britain's first serial killer.
02.07.12 — Charles Dickens' taxidermied raven that inspired Poe to write his famous poem on display in Philadelphia.
02.03.12 — Uniquely designed Amazon River cruise ship.
02.03.12 — Bone guillotine made by early 1800s war prisoner for sale.
02.03.12 — Giant, white crustacean dredged from ocean depths off New Zealand.
01.31.12 — Novelty restaurants from around the world.
01.31.12 — MGH in Boston to get its own medical museum.
01.31.12 — Idea for an atheist temple in London proffered.
01.23.12 — Isaac Asimov graffiti in Rome.
01.23.12 — Hellboy summer camp in Portland.
01.23.12 — Volcano observatories around the world.
01.21.12 — Awesome-looking and rare ribbon seal seen in Seattle.
01.21.12 — France planning Napoleonland.
01.21.12 — Surreal Conjoined 2 art show in Santa Monica.
01.20.12 — Century-old skeleton found in attic in Michigan.
01.20.12 — Giant fiberglass dinosaurs for sale after Ohio tourist attraction closes.
01.20.12 — David Cronenberg discusses Freud's chair, on display in the Freud Museum in Vienna.
01.13.12 — Intricate racetrack sculpture inspired by Fritz Lang's Metropolis takes four years to build.
01.13.12 — Behind the scenes at New Orleans' Mardi Gras float factory and museum.
01.13.12 — Rare oarfish corpse washes ashore in Florida.
01.11.12 — Salem's first witch closing down her witch shop.
01.11.12 — A look into the Morbid Anatomy Library in Brooklyn.
01.11.12 — The job of a whale dissector.
01.09.12 — Jim Morrison's house burned during recent arson rampage.
01.09.12 — Old nuclear power plant in the Philippines now a vacation spot.
01.09.12 — A local goes on a homes of the famous tour in Los Angeles.
01.08.12 — When Tim Burton decorated the White House for Halloween. Here's a pic.
01.06.12 — Girl sneaks into rocket factory in Russia for some awesome pics.
01.06.12 — Scientists make giant-headed super soldier ants at will.
01.06.12 — The Cock Lane Ghost celebrates the big 250.
01.03.12 — Bonnie and Clyde's guns go up for auction.
01.03.12 — Large prop of Serenity spaceship discovered in the Universal archives.
01.03.12 — The Obliteration Room art installation in Queensland.
01.03.12 — Universal Studios closes Jaws ride after 20 years for a new Harry Potter attractions.
01.02.12 — Colorado's strange Frozen Dead Guys celebration.
01.02.12 — Atlas Obscura's ten most popular places for 2011.
01.02.12 — Mysterious, disgusting foam smothers English town.
01.02.12 — Dukes of Hazzard's "jumping" General Lee up for auction.
12.30.11 — Giant pop culture character statues made of wood and paper to be burnt for Ecuador New Year's tradition.
12.30.11 — Solution offered for mystery behind strange bird event that inspired Hitchcock's movie.
12.30.11 — Abandoned brothels around the world.
12.29.11 — The BBC looks at the Congo's famous dinosaur myth.
12.29.11 — A large article about shrunken heads.
12.29.11 — Cruises re-creating the Titanic's voyage on its 100-year anniversary prove popular.
12.28.11 — Why there's a market for murderbilia.
12.28.11 — 8,900-year-old piece of wood found in Lake Huron might be human artifact.
12.28.11 — A look at the success of Madame Tussaud's billion-dollar wax empire.
12.27.11 — DeLorean from Back to the Future 3 sold for half a million dollars.
12.27.11 — DNA of a Himalayan Yeti finger tested.
12.27.11 — Plans for an extraterrestrial-themed brothel in Nevada.
12.24.11 — Story and archive of the copywriter who created Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
12.22.11 — Century-old letter to Santa found in Dublin chimney.
12.21.11 — Bela Lugosi's Dracula cape fails to sell at auction.
12.15.11 — Plans for the second largest man-made structure on the planet that nobody will see because it'll be beneath the Mediterranean.
12.15.11 — Taxidermy animal hybrid art.
12.15.11 — A deserted, unfinished fake Disneyland in China.
12.13.11 — Cold War missile silo in New York converted to a luxury home is up for sale.
12.13.11 — In one New York town, they tell their Christmas wishes to a decades-old talking egg.
12.13.11 — Giant smiley face mounted atop a German tower changes its expression with the mood of the city around it.
12.12.11 — "Charles Dickens and the Supernatural" exhibit at the British Library.
12.10.11 — South Korean tower design looks like the exploding Twin Towers.
12.10.11 — A Slate.com writer gets access to some of the more exclusive parts of the Vatican.
12.10.11 — A Spanish museum with the largest collection of toy soldiers and figures in the world.
12.10.11 — Leaky chapel roof could mean that Ethiopia's famed (and claimed) Ark of the Covenant to be seen in public.
12.01.11 — The designs for famous public memorials that didn't get chosen...like Abraham Lincoln's pyramid.
12.01.11 — New spook-themed restaurant opens in Cassadaga, FL.
12.01.11 — Gigantic chocolate art exhibit to debut in Shanghai.
11.30.11 — Glass barrier erected over Oscar Wilde's tomb to stop people from kissing it.
11.29.11 — Mysterious Voynich Manuscript now avaiable to peruse for free in digital form.
11.28.11 — An awesome glowing, roller-coaster staircase art installation in Germany.
11.28.11 — A look at the Spectre of Brocken, a natural phenomenon involving fog, rainbows, and spookiness.
11.28.11 — Developers looking to build an underground park in New York City.
11.18.11 — London, Ontario baseball team named after a famous serial killer.
11.17.11 — A giant robot snake meets a giant robot spider.
11.17.11 — An effort is underway to save the chapel at the cemetery where Night of the Living Dead was filmed.
11.16.11 — Hitler's custom brass treaty-signing desk to go to auction.
11.16.11 — Cool telescope/microscope mural in France.
11.16.11 — New documentary about the UFO Welcome Center in South Carolina.
11.16.11 — Why Wyatt Earp is buried in a Jewish graveyard in California.
11.15.11 — Amazing glass-bottomed skywalk atop a mountain in China opened for tourists.
11.09.11 — Tokyo's massive underground flood prevention system looks too awesome to bury.
11.09.11 — Italian stone cutter finds fossil whale in slabs of marble.
11.09.11 — Recent efforts afoot to put out a 70-year-old mine fire in Utah.
11.09.11 — A six-story windows phone in Manhattan.
11.08.11 — 80 different artists interpret the same Frankenstein monster bust (warning: high level of cool).
11.07.11 — A 3D Lego terracotta army ground mural.
11.05.11 — Newly discovered knife thought to be Jack the Ripper's.
11.05.11 — Shipwreck could be site of Sir Francis Drake's coffin.
11.05.11 — Field of Dreams sold. And bought.
11.01.11 — A Victorian-era drunk driving warning pillar in Wales.
11.01.11 — Nebraska's Carhenge is up for sale.
11.01.11 — There are robots in the news every day, but for some reason, this one is the most terrifying.
09.26.11 — A homemade (?), livable hobbit house in Wales.
09.26.11 — A Lego greenhouse in London.
09.26.11 — Glass igloos in Finland for watching the Northern Lights.
09.26.11 — A see-through church in Belgium.
09.19.11 — Zombie graves found in Ireland, where they're called revenants.
09.13.11 — Rod Serling's hometown paints Twilight Zone scenes on one of its park carousels.
09.12.11 — Playhouses shaped like mushroom clouds.
09.07.11 — Star Wars Day at Giants stadium in San Francisco.
09.07.11 — A review of the Ground Zero 9/11 Memorial opening next week.
09.07.11 — Update on the ongoing construction of the world's first commercial spaceport.
09.06.11 — Maine Crypto museum on the move.
09.06.11 — Supercroc caught in the Philippines.
09.06.11 — Leather-wrapped Ferrari in France.
09.02.11 — Venice Beach freak show.
08.31.11 — Spooky radioactive figures make up an art installation in Hamburg.
08.31.11 — Old military vehicles found in abandoned underground bunker in France.
08.31.11 — They're calling it. Shipwreck discovered off North Carolina "officially" Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge.
08.29.11 — The Russians invent sleepboxes.
08.29.11 — Inside a fake barf factory in Chicago.
08.29.11 — Statue with a severed Ronald McDonald head in Venice, Italy.
08.25.11 — The Piasa Bird petroglyph in Illinois needs more press.
08.24.11 — Gaddafi's insane compound, including carnival rides and the glass-encased bedroom of his dead infant daughter.
08.18.11 — Amazing images of Bolivia's salt flats.
08.17.11 — Billionaire funds artificial libertarian island nations.
08.17.11 — A slideshow of some of hte most famous UFO encounters.
08.17.11 — New Harry Potter studio tour in London lets you walk the original sets.
08.12.11 — Gigantic soda can portrait of Michael Jackson.
08.12.11 — One-of-a-kind pregnant plesiosaurus fossil goes on display in Los Angeles.
08.12.11 — Top Gun house in California saved from destruction.
08.11.11 — Guy with a Smurf collection (and the most disturbing image I've seen in a long, long time).
08.11.11 — Hotels in Germany and Austria made of drain pipes.
08.11.11 — Metallic sea dune art installation in Paris made of CDs.
08.07.11 — Motorcycle in Thailand made to look like an Alien-Predator hybrid.
08.06.11 — Way interesting human body part bakery in Thailand.
08.05.11 — Giant bathing woman statue floating in a river in Germany.
08.02.11 — Drought reveals piece of Columbia shuttle in Texas.
08.01.11 — New Hampshire commemorates the Betty and Barney Hill alien abduction with a historic marker. Next stop...theme park. Read about my own encounter with the abduction story here.
07.31.11 — A 192-wheel supertrailer hauling nuclear waste to traverse California.
07.31.11 — Loch Ness monster attractions fighting with each other.
07.31.11 — Hotel suite made out of a Boeing 727.
07.28.11 — Walt Disney's house for sale in CA.
07.28.11 — J.K. Rowling's childhood house up for sale in UK.
07.28.11 — The Big Lebowski house for sale in CA.
07.28.11 — Amityville Horror house (movie version) for sale in NJ.
07.26.11 — South Dakota ghost town up for sale.
07.26.11 — Museum of Fine Arts in Boston attempts to buy a green spiky tower made of glass.
07.26.11 — 90-year-old ruins of an Argentina town emerge from the water where it drowned.
07.26.11 — The race to Challenger Deep, the deepest spot on the planet, is on.
07.25.11 — Mysterious tunnels in Bavaria run under churches and farmland.
07.21.11 — Latest strange sea carcass washes up onto beach in Scotland.
07.21.11 — Michael Jackson's original Thriller jacket to go on its own tour.
07.21.11 — WWI plane corrodes on a rooftop in Manhattan.
07.16.11 — A hermit crab in a custom-made glass shell.
07.16.11 — A slideshow of some of the historic artifacts that'll be in D.C.'s African American Museum, which opens in 2015.
07.15.11 — Daleks in London again.
07.15.11 — New Old Man of the Mountain in New Hampshire.
07.15.11 — 26-foot-tall Marilyn Monroe statue in Chicago.
07.13.11 — Pics from a Vodou ceremony in Haiti.
07.05.11 — Rare white buffalo born in Texas.
07.05.11 — Giant squid found dying in Florida. Will spend afterlife in a local museum.
07.05.11 — China opens world's longest bridge over water.
06.30.11 — One hundred mummies discovered in remote Italian church.
06.30.11 — Interview with the Lizard Man, who now has a wax figure in Madame Tussaud's in New York.
06.30.11 — A witch museum in Norway (access it via Chrome browser for a translation).
06.25.11 — A Jurassic Park-themed sex hotel in Japan.
06.24.11 — World's largest uncut emerald in Colombia.
06.24.11 — Oldest American drawing discovered on a mammoth bone in FL.
06.24.11 — Rare complete Christian flat earth maphttp://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/11651 donated to Smithsonian.
06.24.11 — Black market moon dust found in St. Louis.
06.17.11 — A see-through Pontiac in Michigan.
06.17.11 — Town in Spain paints itself blue for a Smurfs movie publicity stunt.
06.17.11 — India plans on building world's tallest statue.
06.14.11 — Mysterious hum permeates small UK village.
06.14.11 — Slideshow of some of the oldest trees on the planet.
06.14.11 — Massive photo essay from this year's E3 convention in California.
06.14.11 — Shrunken head in Tel Aviv museum confirmed by DNA evidence to be legitimate.
06.09.11 — A slideshow of artifacts pulled from what some believe to be the sunken flagship of Blackbeard.
06.08.11 — A bouncy street in France.
06.08.11 — Dilapidated dinosaurs in Arizona.
06.08.11 — "Magic" temple in Japan untouched by tsunami and fire.
06.03.11 — Near-finished life-sized working replica of Noah's Ark ready to hit the water and head for London. Well, sort of working. Looks like the builder might have cheated a bit to keep it afloat.
06.03.11 — Alabaster statue of Tut's grandfather, Amenhotep III, found in Egypt.
06.03.11 — Leslie Nielson's headstone in Fort Lauderdale, FL. He was gravely serious about his comedy.
06.02.11 — The Little Shop of Horrors in London.
06.02.11 — The most photographed New York City attraction, according to Flickr.
06.02.11 — Great article about gigantic crawler that delivers shuttles to the launch pad, although for not much longer.
06.01.11 — Cool photo essay on an Arctic ice station.
06.01.11 — Remnants of yellow-brick road that might've inspired L. Frank Baum discovered by historian.
05.31.11 — A look at the subterranean city under Jerusalem.
05.31.11 — Two-thousand-year-old sealed tunnel found in Mexico under the Temple of the Snake.
05.31.11 — Captain Morgan's cannons found in Panama. Possibly.
05.30.11 — Abandoned ruins of the Soviet space program.
05.26.11 — Lyger cubs in China. Not a type-o.
05.26.11 — New York's deceased Leatherman a no-show at his own exhumation (via @RyanEWolf)
05.26.11 — A photo tour of Facebook's enormous new data center in Prineville, OR (via @mcolombo).
05.25.11 — Skull of the patron saint of genital disease up for auction in Ireland.
05.25.11 — The Vincentennial, a celebration of the 100th birthday of Vincent Price, is in full swing in his hometown of St. Louis, MO.
05.24.11 — George Lucas talks the newly revamped Star Tours at Disneyland (video).
05.24.11 — Count Orlok's Nightmare Gallery in Salem, MA, to unveil its new Abominable Dr. Phibes exhibit this weekend.
05.24.11 — Smithsonian gets the Parliament-Funkadelic spaceship.
05.18.11 — New attraction allows you to walk around the outside of the top of Toronto's CN Tower.
05.18.11 — Way cool bookstores from around the world.
05.18.11 — Unabomber items to be auctioned.
05.16.11 — New York Public Library displays a lock of Mary Shelley's hair, Jack Kerouac's Valium box, Charles Dickens' cat-paw letter opener, and other literary artifacts.
05.11.11 — Vincent Price Art Museum in L.A. to re-open.
05.10.11 — Mummified, tattooed Maori head given back to New Zealand after a few decades in France.
05.10.11 — Home Alone house near Chicago up for sale.
05.10.11 — Norway's experimental pleasure prison.
05.05.11 — Edith Wharton House and other historic writer's homes turn to ghosts for funding.
05.05.11 — Match the real-life villain with his lair.
05.05.11 — The rise of "postmodern tourism."
05.02.11 — Replica Yeti scalp and hand given to Nepal monastery.
05.01.11 — The body of Pope John Paul II exhumed for beatification.
05.01.11 — A list of creepy abandoned cities (thanks, @frenchieandbean)
05.01.11 — A teenage Vermont mummy undergoes CT for insight into the unexplained deaths of children.
04.26.11 — SETI shuts down. Makes me wants to re-watch Contact.
04.26.11 — Another crazy statue list. Been to 2 out of 14.
04.26.11 — Lost Mayan city discovered in Guatemala jungle.
04.26.11 — A visit and picture set from the warehouse of the people who made Chuck E. Cheese the mouse he is.
04.24.11 — 15th Century Satanic automata made by Christians to scare Christians.
04.23.11 — Ugh...Baltimore Edgar Allan Poe House might be shutting down. Would be a real shame.
04.21.11 — Jim Henson exhibit coming to Museum of the Moving Image in New York.
04.19.11 — Derivative, crystal-covered objects of death and violence proffered as art. Bonus mis-definition of the word "ossuary."
04.19.11 — Entire medieval Italian village for sale, cheap (via @rskovach).
04.19.11 — Seattle's Space Needle celebrates its 50th year, fondly looks back on its time as the symbol for Frasier.
04.17.11 — Captain Scott's century-old Antarctic cabin and all its contents to be preserved (w/ cool pics).
04.16.11 — Charlie Chapman Museum to open in Sweden.
04.16.11 — Newseum in DC to get Japanese earthquake handwritten newspaper artifacts.
04.16.11 — Man-made stalagmite installation set in Brazilian nature park.
04.14.11 — UCLA room where the Internet was born to be preserved as a historic site.
04.14.11 — Iceland's Phallological Museum gets its first human specimen.
04.14.11 — NASA space shuttles assigned their retirement homes.
04.10.11 — Museum of Divine Statues opens in Cleveland.
04.10.11 — An "aluminum foil" opera curtain in Oslo.
04.10.11 — A controversial Michael Jackson statue in Egypt.
04.10.11 — The geoglyphs of Cerro Pintados in Chile.
04.10.11 — Kurt Cobain gets a guitar sculpture dedicated to him in his hometown of Aberdeen, WA.
04.10.11 — In Washington state, the last island prison in the country closes.
04.07.11 — Relevant part of the headline: "Millions of Puppy Mummies."
04.07.11 — Legendary two-century-old New York prison Sing Sing might become condos.
04.07.11 — The International Cryptozology Museum gets some Boston Globe press.
04.06.11 — Woman thought to inspire Da Vinci's Mona Lisa to be exhumed...for inspiring Da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
04.06.11 — Jigsawing gladiator skeletons found in the UK back together again.
04.06.11 — One of the 70 codices recently found in the Middle East thought to bear the first-ever image of Jesus. Looks a lot like the Necronomicon to me.
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