05.20.12 — This is what it looks like from atop the Washington Monument.
05.20.12 — The St. Louis Gateway Arch is a dirty, dirty thing.
05.20.12 — An amazing memorial for the 1989 crashed UTA Flight 772 out in the Sahara.
05.20.12 — Lenin mausoleum reopens.
05.20.12 — Giant stained-glass crab at BWI airport.
05.20.12 — A sky whale.
05.20.12 — Alaska's Mount Pavlof erupting.
05.20.12 — A UFO festival in Oregon.
05.20.12 — Slave cabin being moved from South Carolina to the Smithsonian.
05.20.12 — Cygan, an 8-foot-tall robot from the 1950s, is for sale.
05.15.12 — Boston Bomber buried in Virginia.
05.15.12 — Strange white foam seeps up from beneath a street in China.
05.15.12 — Man restores Galileo shuttle prop from Star Trek: The Original Series.
05.15.12 — Hong Kong's pink dolphins at risk.
05.15.12 — Bizarre, toothy marine carcass washes up on New Zealand beach.
05.15.12 — Slideshow of abandoned cities across the world.
05.15.12 — Vatican hates Mexican death saint.
05.15.12 — Detroit's 10-foot-tall RoboCop statue cast and ready for bronzing.
05.15.12 — Old pieces of wedding cake from celebrity weddings are highly collectible.
05.15.12 — Mysterious, tiny wooden coffins filled with tiny wooden bodies found in 1836 in Scotland on display.
05.06.12 — A sunken town in Italy whose tower still juts above the water.
05.06.12 — 1,700-year-old Roman cemetery found beneath UK parking lot.
05.06.12 — Fully stocked, 50-year-old fallout shelter discovered in Wisconsin family's back yard.
05.06.12 — Amazing giant metal creature sculptures in the desert outside San Diego.
05.06.12 — Six-inch, alien-looking Atacama skeleton turns out to be human.
05.06.12 — Antique, taxidermy frog sculptures in the Frog Museum of Switzerland.
05.06.12 — Freud's couch in London needs a restoration.
05.06.12 — Hundreds of yellow spheres found beneath Quetzalcoatl's temple outside Mexico City.
05.06.12 — Bray Studios, the site of many Hammer Horror movies from the 50s and 60s to be torn down.
05.06.12 — Historical marker unearthed in Cambridge, MA.
04.29.12 — Massive, inflatable astronaut suit art installation in Poland.
04.29.12 — Robots discover more burial chambers under Quetzalcoatl's temple.
04.29.12 — "Pirate" ship for sale in Missouri.
04.29.12 — A look at the dilapidated Astor mansion in New York.
04.29.12 — Seven-foot-tall fiberglass head found in Hudson River.
04.29.12 — 9/11 plane debris found wedged between two buildings.
04.29.12 — Glow-in-the-dark sheep in Uruguay.
04.25.12 — The sheet Bram Stoker used to plan the major characters of Dracula.
04.25.12 — Massive, fossilized elephant bird egg sells for $101K (Thanks, Alison).
04.25.12 — "Haunted" Michigan hospital for sale.
04.25.12 — Century-old Oklahoma City time capsule opened.
04.25.12 — Canada to get a Star Trek museum in Vulcan.
04.25.12 — The tombstone re-imagined.
04.25.12 — Medieval skeletons unearthed holding hands in Romania.
04.25.12 — Awesome, giant Godzilla slide in Japan (Thanks, Joey).
04.23.12 — Zombie museum in Monroeville Mall is going the way of most things zombie at the Monroeville Mall.
04.23.12 — A look inside the Materials Library in London, the boring name of a collection of the most fascinating substances ever created.
04.23.12 — Historical artifacts from the archives of Drexel University go on display.
04.23.12 — Hong Kong Disneyland gets its own take on the Haunted Mansion.
04.23.12 — Petition for a plaque in Philadelphia that honors Isaac Asmiov.
04.23.12 — East Germany's 40-year-old sewer alligator.
04.21.12 — Giant, fire-breathing dragon...bridge...in Vietnam.
04.21.12 — Famous author birthplaces that weren't preserved...for random reasons.
04.21.12 — Some of the world's strangest flowers.
04.21.12 — 18th century graveyard in Georgia desecrated (Thanks, Marcia).
04.21.12 — Straw mammoth sculpture in Japan.
04.21.12 — Stonehenge looking for a general manager.
04.16.12 —The cicadas are coming.
04.16.12 —The literary murals of Edward Sorel in New York.
04.16.12 — Three-part video series on how Stan Winston Studios built the Jurassic Park T-Rex.
04.16.12 — Burial cairn discovered in the Sea of Galilea.
04.16.12 — The 80th anniversary of the Loch Ness monster.
04.16.12 — A list of archeological discoveries made at construction sites.
04.16.12 —"UT using donated corpses in mass grave project with international aspirations."
04.16.12 — Giant snails attack Florida.
05.20.12 — The St. Louis Gateway Arch is a dirty, dirty thing.
05.20.12 — An amazing memorial for the 1989 crashed UTA Flight 772 out in the Sahara.
05.20.12 — Lenin mausoleum reopens.
05.20.12 — Giant stained-glass crab at BWI airport.
05.20.12 — A sky whale.
05.20.12 — Alaska's Mount Pavlof erupting.
05.20.12 — A UFO festival in Oregon.
05.20.12 — Slave cabin being moved from South Carolina to the Smithsonian.
05.20.12 — Cygan, an 8-foot-tall robot from the 1950s, is for sale.
05.15.12 — Boston Bomber buried in Virginia.
05.15.12 — Strange white foam seeps up from beneath a street in China.
05.15.12 — Man restores Galileo shuttle prop from Star Trek: The Original Series.
05.15.12 — Hong Kong's pink dolphins at risk.
05.15.12 — Bizarre, toothy marine carcass washes up on New Zealand beach.
05.15.12 — Slideshow of abandoned cities across the world.
05.15.12 — Vatican hates Mexican death saint.
05.15.12 — Detroit's 10-foot-tall RoboCop statue cast and ready for bronzing.
05.15.12 — Old pieces of wedding cake from celebrity weddings are highly collectible.
05.15.12 — Mysterious, tiny wooden coffins filled with tiny wooden bodies found in 1836 in Scotland on display.
05.06.12 — A sunken town in Italy whose tower still juts above the water.
05.06.12 — 1,700-year-old Roman cemetery found beneath UK parking lot.
05.06.12 — Fully stocked, 50-year-old fallout shelter discovered in Wisconsin family's back yard.
05.06.12 — Amazing giant metal creature sculptures in the desert outside San Diego.
05.06.12 — Six-inch, alien-looking Atacama skeleton turns out to be human.
05.06.12 — Antique, taxidermy frog sculptures in the Frog Museum of Switzerland.
05.06.12 — Freud's couch in London needs a restoration.
05.06.12 — Hundreds of yellow spheres found beneath Quetzalcoatl's temple outside Mexico City.
05.06.12 — Bray Studios, the site of many Hammer Horror movies from the 50s and 60s to be torn down.
05.06.12 — Historical marker unearthed in Cambridge, MA.
04.29.12 — Massive, inflatable astronaut suit art installation in Poland.
04.29.12 — Robots discover more burial chambers under Quetzalcoatl's temple.
04.29.12 — "Pirate" ship for sale in Missouri.
04.29.12 — A look at the dilapidated Astor mansion in New York.
04.29.12 — Seven-foot-tall fiberglass head found in Hudson River.
04.29.12 — 9/11 plane debris found wedged between two buildings.
04.29.12 — Glow-in-the-dark sheep in Uruguay.
04.25.12 — The sheet Bram Stoker used to plan the major characters of Dracula.
04.25.12 — Massive, fossilized elephant bird egg sells for $101K (Thanks, Alison).
04.25.12 — "Haunted" Michigan hospital for sale.
04.25.12 — Century-old Oklahoma City time capsule opened.
04.25.12 — Canada to get a Star Trek museum in Vulcan.
04.25.12 — The tombstone re-imagined.
04.25.12 — Medieval skeletons unearthed holding hands in Romania.
04.25.12 — Awesome, giant Godzilla slide in Japan (Thanks, Joey).
04.23.12 — Zombie museum in Monroeville Mall is going the way of most things zombie at the Monroeville Mall.
04.23.12 — A look inside the Materials Library in London, the boring name of a collection of the most fascinating substances ever created.
04.23.12 — Historical artifacts from the archives of Drexel University go on display.
04.23.12 — Hong Kong Disneyland gets its own take on the Haunted Mansion.
04.23.12 — Petition for a plaque in Philadelphia that honors Isaac Asmiov.
04.23.12 — East Germany's 40-year-old sewer alligator.
04.21.12 — Giant, fire-breathing dragon...bridge...in Vietnam.
04.21.12 — Famous author birthplaces that weren't preserved...for random reasons.
04.21.12 — Some of the world's strangest flowers.
04.21.12 — 18th century graveyard in Georgia desecrated (Thanks, Marcia).
04.21.12 — Straw mammoth sculpture in Japan.
04.21.12 — Stonehenge looking for a general manager.
04.16.12 —The cicadas are coming.
04.16.12 —The literary murals of Edward Sorel in New York.
04.16.12 — Three-part video series on how Stan Winston Studios built the Jurassic Park T-Rex.
04.16.12 — Burial cairn discovered in the Sea of Galilea.
04.16.12 — The 80th anniversary of the Loch Ness monster.
04.16.12 — A list of archeological discoveries made at construction sites.
04.16.12 —"UT using donated corpses in mass grave project with international aspirations."
04.16.12 — Giant snails attack Florida.
04.06.12 — Fish with clear blood in Japan aquarium.
04.06.12 — Excellent, macabre artifacts from the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Maryland.
04.06.12 — Microorganisms named after Lovecraft monsters. Yes, including that one.
04.06.12 — Philadelphia to set up giant playable Pong game on the side of a skyscraper.
04.06.12 — Cursed Roman ring that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien's One Ring.
04.06.12 — "Gate to Hell" discovered in Turkey. (Thanks, Alison and Marcia.)
04.06.12 — Company destroys some of Peru's Nazca Lines.
04.02.12 — Stephen King donates $5K for Boston's Edgar Allan Poe statue.
04.02.12 — Hospital where they filmed One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest now a museum.
04.02.12 — Cool-looking "haunted" mansion in the Bronx.
04.02.12 — Pope Francis goes underground to St. Peter's tomb.
04.02.12 — Video of Vermont's Toy Museum.
04.02.12 — Rich guy wants to make a robotic Jurassic Park.
04.02.12 — Pet terrifying carnivores at an Argentina zoo.
04.02.12 — Robotic jellyfish courtesy Virginia Tech.
04.02.12 — UK exhibition on "Horrible History" includes the skeleton of a leprosy victim.
03.28.12 — Dinner event held in Disneyland's Haunted Mansion.
03.28.12 — The fantastic new Blue Planet aquarium in Copenhagen.
03.28.12 — Great night shots of San Francisco's Presidio Pet Cemetery.
03.28.12 — African fairy circles.
03.28.12 — Victorian public toilet in London turned into a cafe.
03.28.12 — One of John Dillinger's getaway cars on display in the city of his birth at the Indianapolis International Airport.
03.26.12 — Tourists sneak to top of Egyptian pyramids for pictures.
03.26.12 — Drones create a giant, lighted Star Trek insignia in the night sky of London.
03.26.12 — Saplings from Anne Frank's chestnut tree to grow in the U.S.
03.26.12 — Frenchman turns his home into a macabre art project called the "Abode of Chaos" and his neighbors hate him for it.
03.26.12 — A necropolis cut into a sheer rock face in Turkey.
03.26.12 — Cozy chapel with graveyard in the UK on sale as a residence for cheap.
03.26.12 — Divers return to the Greek shipwreck that gave us the enigmatic Antikythera mechanism.
03.26.12 — The story and final home of Elektro, the first American robot.
03.20.12 — Guy stays overnight on the exterior set of the new A&E series Psycho.
03.20.12 — "Life on Mars, in Utah."
03.20.12 — A visit to the Happy-Go-Lucky Funeral Parlour in London.
03.20.12 — Another old insane asylum goes the way of condos, this time in Michigan.
03.20.12 — People are shooting erotic pics and films in the skull-lined catacombs of Paris.
03.20.12 — Easter eggs for warding off evil spirits.
03.15.12 — 120-year-old castle in upstate New York on sale for one million dollars.
03.15.12 — One of the cars from Bullitt on sale for one million dollars.
03.15.12 — Silo in Iowa turned into an ice-climbing wall.
03.15.12 — Photo essay on embalmed leaders around the world.
03.15.12 — The man who hunts urban stone faces.
03.15.12 — Discovery of bodies under London could portend the presence 50,000 plague victims.
03.09.12 — Literary bars in Boston.
03.09.12 — A European mummified head that is the oldest known preserved medical dissection.
03.09.12 — Opalized pliosaur skeleton fossil in Australia.
03.09.12 — People obsessing with collecting and interacting with Cabbage Patch dolls.
03.09.12 — "The world's only legitimate pirate cemetery."
03.09.12 — Hugo Chavez's corpse to go on permanent exhibit.
03.09.12 — The journeys of famous corpses.
03.06.12 — Abandoned leper colony on an island in Greece.
03.06.12 — Giant matchsticks with burnt human heads.
03.06.12 — Meteorite found in Antarctica.
03.06.12 — Charles Dickens's attic hideaway in London for sale.
03.06.12 — Castles of New Hampshire.
03.06.12 — San Francisco's Bay Bridge gets all LED'd up for a light show installation.
03.06.12 — Large ice balls land on the shores of Lake Michigan.
03.06.12 — Richard Neutra's Cyclorama razed in Gettysburg.
02.28.12 — The, um, Weather Channel's "must-see" cemeteries.
02.28.12 — Glowing carnivorous plants.
02.28.12 — Undisplayed but fascinating artifacts stored in museums.
02.28.12 — Vintage microphone collection in Milwaukee.
02.21.12 — 2,000-year-old mummified Egyptian cat found in an attic in the UK.
02.21.12 — 500-year-old arrest warrant for Machiavelli discovered in Florence.
02.21.12 — 37 unmarked graves unearthed in Charleston, SC.
02.21.12 — Pre-Civil War locomotives in the ocean off New Jersey.
02.21.12 — Grave of a feral German boy in the UK upgraded in historical status.
02.21.12 — Original DeLorean from Back to the Future series restored.
02.21.12 — Gigantic bird nests in southern Africa.
02.21.12 — The copycat buildings of China.
02.21.12 — Millions of birds invade Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
02.21.12 — "Into the Cave of Chile's Witches."
02.21.12 — Body of preserved Mexican "Ape Woman" buried after 150 years.
02.07.12 — Pics from the London Dungeon's moving sale.
02.07.12 — A clue closer to solving the murder of the Black Dahlia.
02.07.12 — What Archie Bunker's house looks like today.
02.07.12 — Another vague pic. Another lake monster. This time with a Russian twist.
02.07.12 — Fascinating Afar graveyards in Ethiopia.
02.07.12 — A Civil War-era baseball found on a battlefield about to go on display.
02.07.12 — Great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens unveils a new "Dog and Pot" sign dedicated to the author.
02.07.12 — Smithsonian magazine looks at Dinosaur National Monument in Utah.
02.02.12 — The strange artifact known as the "cemetery gun."
02.02.12 — Some pics from inside the lobby of Lucasfilm in CA.
02.02.12 — Identity of a mysterious 19th century brain uncovered.
02.02.12 — "The Haunted Hotels of Los Angeles."
02.02.12 — F. Scott Fitzgerald's Baltimore home for sale.
02.02.12 — Georgia using zombies to sell tourism.
02.02.12 — Fate of Denver's demon horse to be decided.
02.02.12 — "The Mummies that Attended Three Super Bowls in New Orleans"
01.31.12 — Pics from the 2013 Houston Halloween Expo.
01.31.12 — Dubai's plans an underwater hotel.
01.31.12 — A fantastic 53-year-old sealed bottle garden in the UK.
01.31.12 — The controversy over whether the stovepipe hat at the Abraham Lincoln Museum in Springfield, IL, was really Abe's or not.
01.31.12 — An Italian tower topped by trees.
01.29.12 — 1500s-era wine cellar preserved and installed beneath Britain's Ministry of Defence building.
01.29.12 — An outsider goes to a Furry convention.
01.29.12 — A visit to the intense Congdon Anatomical Museum in Bangkok.
01.29.12 — A talk with the man building a Millennium Falcon float for Mardi Gras.
01.29.12 — Filler article on the hotel that inspired Stephen King's The Shining.
01.29.12 — More than 150 ancient human skulls found in Mexico from a possible mass sacrifice.
01.24.12 — A look at the craziness that is Jordan's Furniture in Massachusetts.
01.24.12 — Original TV Batmobile sells for $4.6 million.
01.24.12 — Museum learns artifacts it thought were gaming pieces might be ancient toilet paper.
01.24.12 — France's National Library chases after original manuscript of the Marquis de Sade's 120 Days.
01.24.12 — A giant, voracious sinkhole in Louisiana.
01.24.12 — Italy having trouble protecting the recently discovered Tomb of the Gladiator.
01.24.12 — Undersea station Aquarius to be preserved for the tim being.
01.24.12 — A visit to the patch of Arizona that was transformed into the moon in the 1960s for astronaut training.
01.21.12 — International Cryptozoology Museum curator Loren Coleman talks to Atlas Obscura founder Joshua Foer about cryptozology.
01.21.12 — London's historic blue plaque program might be getting suspended.
01.21.12 — The diary of a body snatcher in London.
01.21.12 — An ossuary-themed bar in New York City.
01.21.12 — A tour of the International Space Station.
01.21.12 — A North Carolina house known for being a trick-or-treating destination goes on sale.
01.21.12 — Vladivostok's prehistoric metal artifact is a mystery.
01.14.12 — New island surfaces in the North Sea near Germany.
01.14.12 — Tracking down the Minnesota Iceman.
01.14.12 — Detroit's RoboCop statue postponed to 2014.
01.14.12 — An abandoned igloo-shaped hotel in Alaska.
01.14.12 — Pics from a World of Warcraft amusement park in China.
01.09.12 — Infamous mistakes on famous monuments.
01.09.12 — Inside the Library of Congress's mountaintop repository of recordings in rural Virginia.
01.09.12 — A Buenos Aires town surfaces after being underwater for a quarter of a century.
01.09.12 — Mysterious disappearances in an archipelago off Venezuela.
01.09.12 — San Anselmo park to get Indiana Jones and Yoda statues.
01.09.12 — Exploring China's Hollow Mountain.
01.09.12 — New flying frog species found in Vietnam.
01.04.12 — In Egypt, 8 million dog mummies found at one burial site. They counted.
01.04.12 — Four-story-tall statue of a woman rusting away in San Francisco.
01.04.12 — Doubtful News looks back on the year in monster sightings.
01.04.12 — The Aeroscraft, a new kind of sky transport from a company called Aeros.
01.04.12 — Louisiana cemeteries are sinking (thanks, Phil).
01.04.12 — Hollywood's Magic Castle celebrates 50 years.
01.04.12 — A giant, balancing rock in a Finnish forest (thanks, Ryan).
01.01.12 — Massive space invaders carved into a snowy French landscape.
01.01.12 — Giant dinosaur tooth may be clue to a massive-sized class of dinosaurs.
01.01.12 — A visit to the strip mall featured in GoodFellas.
01.01.12 — The remains of the early 19th century schooner Ticonderoga decay in a shed in upstate New York.
01.01.12 — "The Tombs of Old London."
12.30.12 — Megapiranhas. Just Megapiranhas.
12.30.12 — NatGeo examines the Serbia vampire hysteria.
12.30.12 — British museum to exhibit largest Viking ship in the world.
12.30.12 — Pictures of 42 different crater lakes.
12.30.12 — Obscure space history about the animals Russia sent to the moon before us.
12.28.12 — Penitent Hitler statue installed in Warsaw.
12.28.12 — Europe's highest suspension bridge, the Titlis Cliff Walk, is opened in the Swiss Alps.
12.28.12 — The writing retreats of famous authors.
12.28.12 — House where Lee Harvey Oswald stayed the night before the JFK assassination to be refurbished into a tourist attraction.
12.28.12 — Giant, decaying Nevada thermometer attraction bumming people out.
12.28.12 — Pigeon skeleton with coded WWII message remains uncracked.
12.18.12 — New spider species discovered that builds decoy spiders in its web.
12.18.12 — Police in Florida exhume In Cold Blood killers in Kansas to collect DNA.
12.18.12 — Skeleton with elongated skull discovered in millennium-old Mexican grave.
12.18.12 — City of Tikal at the cross-roads of Mayan hysteria and Star Wars fandom.
12.17.12 — Government and Florida's Hemingway Museum still fighting over those six-toed cats.
12.17.12 — Luxury survival shelters for sale out of California.
12.17.12 — Mystery of the Indiana Jones journal in Chicago solved.
12.17.12 — An update on Virginia's Mark Kline of Foamhenge fame whose Haunted Monster Museum burned earlier this year.
12.17.12 — Bizarre pics from Santacon 2012.
12.17.12 — A Hobbit-inspired home in Pennsylvania.
12.14.12 — Giant squid caught on video in its native habitat for the first time.
12.14.12 — Guy who found Titanic claims to have found evidence for an ancient, worldwide flood.
12.14.12 — Horses painted anatomically.
12.14.12 — Manuscript written in a secret language turns out to be an undiscovered work of Roger Williams.
12.14.12 — 1500-year-old gravestone of the man who inspired the story of Tristan and Isolde being moved for a housing development.
12.14.12 — University of Chicago receives strange, awesome Indiana Jones journal.
12.14.12 — Crabs invading Antarctica.
11.25.12 — New Jersey roller coaster marooned offshore by Sandy could remain as new tourist attraction.
11.25.12 — The tale of a secret society discovered after deciphering a 250-year-old code.
11.25.12 — A Los Angeles billboard turned into a hanging garden.
11.25.12 — Rain Man car and other movie paraphernalia up for auction.
11.25.12 — Baltimore's Poe House saved by a railroad museum.
11.25.12 — A home in the middle of a highway in China.
11.20.12 — Amazing death-related art collection on display in the UK.
11.20.12 — Favorite reported sightings from the editor of Fortean Times.
11.20.12 — In Poland, a look inside the world's narrowest house.
11.20.12 — Giant statue of Gandalf for The Hobbit premiere in New Zealand.
11.20.12 — Five ancient underwater cities.
11.14.12 — Venice recently experience one of its highest tides of the past two centuries (great pics).
11.14.12 — Biggest fireworks display of all time in Kuwait.
11.14.12 — Amazing flower-sculpture floats in the Netherlands.
11.14.12 — The story of the only surviving manuscript of A Clockwork Orange.
11.14.12 — Cat Man dies of apparent suicide.
11.12.12 — Two 8500-year-old skeletons found in bottom of ancient well in Israel.
11.12.12 — North Korea's pyramid skyscraper hotel to finally open next year after two decades.
11.12.12 — Mammoth skeleton found outside of Paris.
11.12.12 — Abandoned suitcases from the Willard Asylum for the Chronically Insane in New York.
11.12.12 — England's oldest "corpse gate."
11.12.12 — Ancient skeleton of a Roman Goliath found.
11.11.12 — Photographer swims with massive, 26-foot-long anaconda in Brazil.
11.08.12 — A look inside the Masonic Grand Lodge in New York City.
11.08.12 — This is what 250,000 pennies glued to the floor looks like.
11.08.12 — Astounding light displays at Japan's Nabana no sato botanical garden.
11.08.12 — A look at what's arguably Europe's oldest town.
11.08.12 — Bizarre, transparent, discombobulating adult "bouncy castle" in Italy.
11.08.12 — Snakes with tentacles born at National Zoo.
11.05.12 — Graveyard of more than 1,800 prehistoric turtles in China.
11.05.12 — New Age vandalism at Ohio's Serpent Mound.
11.05.12 — In Florida, you can swim with a tiger.
11.05.12 — The trickle of an underground river in a basement in Manhattan.
11.05.12 — An auction of amazing samurai armor.
11.03.12 — The desk on which Bram Stoker wrote Dracula up for auction.
11.03.12 — Archaeologists find Island of the Blue Dolphins cave
11.03.12 — The humble resting places of some of America's greatest writers.
11.03.12 — Large inflatable transparent sculptures by Victorine Muller.
11.03.12 — Man digs WWI trench in back yard.
09.30.12 — Crowds at the Sistine Chapel getting out of hand.
09.30.12 — Weird "soap tsunami" in China as 50-foot wall of foam from a local river causes evacuations.
09.30.12 — A 100-foot-long blue whale kite in flight.
09.30.12 — A tour of Dunder Mifflin's Scranton, PA.
09.30.12 — I'm just going to repost this article's actual headline: "Buddhist Iron Man found by Nazis is from Space."
09.24.12 — Charles Dickens's library of fake books recreated at the New York Public Library.
09.24.12 — "Ghost signs" from advertisements past.
09.24.12 — Puffer fish makes mysterious-looking circles on the ocean floor off Japan.
09.24.12 — 2,600-year-old Buddhist site in Afghanistan threatened by mining operations.
09.19.12 — First "liliger" born in Siberia.
09.19.12 — An art installation in Calgary of a giant cloud of light bulbs.
09.19.12 — A sunken monastery in Russia.
09.18.12 — Man takes his DeLorean to Back to the Future filming locations.
09.18.12 — Large Roman mosaic found in a field in Turkey.
09.18.12 — Sherlock Holmes Society heads for Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland, site of Holmes's infamous fight with Moriarty.
09.13.12 — The English locations that inspired Charles Dickens's Bleak House.
09.13.12 — Surfers take on strange frothy waves off New Zealand.
09.13.12 — The long story of the M*A*S*H still.
09.13.12 — Heading down the longest lava tube in Asia.
09.12.12 — A giant Klaus Kinski head.
09.11.12 — 80-year-old, creepy behind-the-scenes photos of Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum.
09.11.12 — Photographs of the interiors of abandoned asylums in New England.
09.11.12 — Billionaire signs the planet (video).
09.09.12 — The story of JFK's original bronze coffin.
09.09.12 — Salem, MA, to lose one of its landmarks.
09.09.12 — Berlusconi's underground cave pool.
09.09.12 — China's Yangtze River blushes.
09.06.12 — A dispatch from White Sands Missile Range Museum and National Park.
09.06.12 — Next weekend is the annual Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant, WV.
09.06.12 — Underground pyramid discovered in Italy.
09.06.12 — Oldest "message in a bottle" found in North Sea.
09.05.12 — The perpetually capsized Costa Concordia in Italy is now a tourist attraction, at least for the next few months or so.
09.05.12 — The oddities, intricacies, and complexities of the Jet Propulsion Lab campus mapped.
09.05.12 — China's new skyscraper must be put on one leg at a time.
09.03.12 — Hurricane Isaac dislodges and beaches a lost Civil War wreck in Alabama.
09.03.12 — Melting glacier exposes a field of WW1 ammo.
09.03.12 — An art of death exhibition from the Wellcome Collection in London.
09.01.12 — Terrifying pictures of massive Ermine Moth caterpillar cocoons.
09.01.12 — Medieval well found and displayed beneath living room of UK couple.
09.01.12 — Vial of Pope John Paul II's blood stolen and recovered.
08.28.12 — Decades-old abandoned sex club found in secret basement of a Kentucky building during demolition prep.
08.28.12 — Wisconsin town celebrates its annual Sputnikfest, celebrating that time in 1962 when 20 lbs. of Sputnik landed there.
08.28.12 — Archaeologists search for lost grave of King Richard III...in a parking lot.
08.28.12 — New, uh, cardboard exhibit at the Chicago Children's Museum.
08.23.12 — What to do with the Aurora Movie Theater and other sites of great and recent tragedy.
08.23.12 — New York warehouse famous for being a legal graffiti canvas is about to be replaced by a luxury high-rise.
08.23.12 — Government investigates possibility of big cats in Australia.
08.22.12 — Largest Burmese python ever found in the Everglades also pregnant with record number of eggs.
08.21.12 — The stuff fans of Mark Twain leave at his Connecticut grave.
08.21.12 — Modern-era tenants living in the top floors of a reenactment village in New Hampshire.
08.21.12 — Hugo Chavez's massive, $140 million tomb for Latin American hero Simon Bolivar might also be intended for himself.
08.20.12 — Skeleton army found in Danish bog.
08.20.12 — Eerie abandoned veterinary school in Belgium.
08.20.12 — Antarctic explorer's ship found sunk off Greenland.
08.20.12 — New species of spider with hooked legs found in Oregon cave.
08.20.12 — New Phineas Gage in Brazil.
08.15.12 — NPR looks at Boot Hill Cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona.
08.15.12 — A tour through China's "ghost towns and phantom malls".
08.15.12 — A 2,500-year-old Siberian princess mummy and her elaborate tattoos.
08.13.12 — Floating rocks from volcano found in the South Pacific.
08.13.12 — Terrifying high-rise swimming pools across the world.
08.13.12 — The story behind the Mythbusters' 52-foot-long recreation of a megalodon shark with 8,000-pound steel hydraulic jaws.
08.12.12 — The bones of sixteen severed hands found in the pits of an ancient Egyptian palace.
08.11.12 — Ancient mass grave full of the skeletons of Aztecs found in Mexico City.
08.09.12 — Government rules that the 130-year-old bones of Australia's most famous outlaw to go to family, not museum.
08.09.12 — The 100-year-old New Jersey shark attacks that inspired Jaws.
08.09.12 — Excavating sea dinosaur skeletons in the Arctic.
08.03.12 — Magicians Penn & Teller to create haunted house attraction for Universal Studios Orlando Halloween Horror Nights.
08.01.12 — A visit to the Hoxton Street Monster Supply in London.
08.01.12 — Newly discovered Mayan "Temple of the Night Sun" in Guatemala bears amazing mask carvings.
08.01.12 — Possible German U-boat found at the bottom of a river in Canada.
07.30.12 — A look at East Lancashire, home to the 400-year-old Pendle witch trials.
07.24.12 — An awesome gallery of garbage-picked art in Manhattan.
07.24.12 — New Orleans musician embalmed standing up to preside over his own funeral.
07.24.12 — Oscar Wilde's house for sale.
07.22.12 — Sherlock Holmes museums around the world.
07.21.12 — A video tour of iRobot's island of misfit robots.
07.21.12 — New art installation of thousands of illuminated tents in Britain.
07.21.12 — A new exhibit in London about robotically augmented humans.
07.20.12 — An interview with R.L. Stine, celebrating 20 years of Goosebumps (with pics of his office).
07.19.12 — Tiny, mysterious purple crabs swarm Oahu.
07.19.12 — An open-air library in a vineyard in Belgium.
07.19.12 — An exhibition of mummy faces in the UK.
07.17.12 — A visit to Aquarius, the last undersea base.
07.16.12 — A look at Manhattan cemeteries.
07.13.12 — Hungarian forest and town still red and Martian-like from a 2010 sludge spill.
07.13.12 — A vertical ocean vessel.
07.13.12 — The Exorcist on stage, starring Richard Chamberlain.
07.07.12 — Scottish mummies found that are actually made up of various bodies Frankenstein'd together.
07.07.12 — China clones London's Tower Bridge.
07.07.12 — Ruins of a massive and ancient British civilization discovered beneath North Sea.
07.07.12 — Great pics of the "doomsday" seed vault in the Arctic.
07.06.12 — Entrepreneur proposes plan to turn part of derelict Detroit into a live-action zombie theme park.
07.06.12 — 20-foot long man-eating crocodile is officially the largest in captivity.
07.06.12 — Australian desert town gets a surprise Lego forest.
06.06.12 — More vampire graves found. This time, in Bulgaria.
06.03.12 — Tarantula swarm attacks village in India.
06.03.12 — New evidence pinpoints Amelia Earhart crash and maroonment site.
06.03.12 — The famous house of the Mole Man of Hackney is for sale.
05.30.12 — A picture essay of cliffside monasteries.
05.24.12 — The gnawed human skeleton that inspired a Sylvia Plath poem goes on display in the UK.
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.
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.
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