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.
03.25.11 — An essay about antique pictuers of the dead.
03.25.11 — The debate over the display of the ancient dead continues.
03.24.11 — Andres Basurto's Broken glass bottle skulls.
03.22.11 — Mimetoliths: a profile of rock profiles.
03.22.11 — A lengthy first-person piece on aboriginal cave art of Tennessee.
03.22.11 — The Appalachian Trail summed up in four minutes' worth of video.
03.22.11 — A 3D skull "carved" from $11,000 worth of $1 bills. You should take a look even if that description doesn't grab your attention.
03.21.11 — Zombie-themed restaurant to open in Iowa.
03.21.11 — A look at the new interactive queue for Disney's Haunted Mansion.
03.21.11 — Gallagher selling his stuff.
03.21.11 — Really cool photographer project that documents Stanley Kubrik filming locations.
03.20.11 — A freaky house covered in toys in Toronto.
03.20.11 — The history of the Hollywood sign.
03.20.11 — A "practice" tube station on the third floor of a London building.
03.18.11 — Victorian dress made from a thousand beetle wings.
03.18.11 — From Tolkein to Joyce, the locations of famous author inspirations.
03.18.11 — Six-foot statue of comedian Stan Laurel turns reappears after being stolen seven years ago.
03.17.11 — Crystal skull thought to be owned by Nazi fiend Heinrich Himmler found in the rafters of a house in Bavaria.
03.17.11 — Seven weird wonders of Ireland.
03.14.11 — The writing sheds of famous authors.
03.14.11 — Lost city of Atlantis found, I guess.
03.14.11 — To cure its boredom, science community starts shooting lasers at Stonehenge.
03.12.11 — Iron Man's mansion for sale in California for $25 million.
03.12.11 — Life-sized car made out of blue Play-Doh in the UK.
03.12.11 — New, giant impact crater found in the wilds of the Congo.
03.11.11 — A Batman-themed room in a rent-by-the-hour hotel in Taiwan.
03.08.11 — New lava fissure leads the way to hell in Hawaii.
03.08.11 — The remains of 27 people point to ancient death ritual in the Himalayas (via Morbid Curiosity).
03.08.11 — Billions of dead sardines mysteriously clog a marina in Redondo Beach, CA.
03.08.11 — An electric chair, a restraint cage, a Klan hood, and other macabre artifacts go on R-rated display in Columbus, OH.
03.07.11 — Machinist Vaughn Reid, his Museum of Creativity, and his UFO landing zone.
03.07.11 — New "urban devestation" ride in UK gets hate from pilots because the airplane wreckage in the ride is too close to major airports.
03.07.11 — The house from Up built (and flown) in real life.
03.07.11 — A 700-year-old mummy found by road workers in China (via Morbid Curiosity).
03.06.11 — Ancient Middle East statues damaged during World War II bombing go on display in Berlin.
03.06.11 — Bone fragments thought to be Amelia Earheart's come back from tests as inconclusive.
03.06.11 — Sunken Cold War submarine thought to be Russian in origin found in Baltic Sea.
03.06.11 — Pompeii exhibit opens in New York.
03.05.11 — City-sized cave detected on the moon.
03.05.11 — Jaws of the world's largest shark in the history of the planet to go up for auction in Dallas, TX.
03.05.11 — TARDIS toilet installed at a Brooklyn bar.
03.02.11 — We finally can put a face to the famous mummy that is Otzi the Iceman.
02.26.11 — A century-and-a-half-year-old book of poetry covered in the skin of a murderer.
02.25.11 — Doomsday shelters and the real estate market.
02.25.11 — Latest article asking the question, "Have we found Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge?" This time from Smithsonian Magazine.
02.25.11 — The world's largest scale model of the solar system is in Sweden.
02.25.11 — The ruins of Detroit (Thanks, Marcia).
02.23.11 — Human experiment site uncovered in Japan.
02.23.11 — Smithsonian plans "The Art of Video Games" exhibit.
02.23.11 — Edward Gorey exhibit at the Boston Athenaeum.
02.18.11 — Underwater caves + human skull + mastadon bones = cool pics and article.
02.17.11 — Some museums serruptitiously turning against the display of human remains. This means fewer mummies.
02.15.11 — 12,000-year-old rock carvings of faces found by scientists looking for giant rat fossils in East Timor.
02.15.11 — Animal sex exhibit at the Natural History Museum in London.
02.15.11 — Architects have the best houses: a glass tilt-house in the Berkshires of Massachusetts.
02.15.11 — Pics from the Twin Peaks Art Show in Los Angeles.
02.14.11 — World's oldest wedding cake is 113-years-old (Thanks, Marcia).
02.14.11 — Hitler's desk for sale in California.
02.14.11 — Plans in place to exhume New York's Leather Man.
02.14.11 — Todd Rundgren 70s-era pyramid stage prop now stands sentinel in a field in Massachusetts (Thanks, Frank).
02.13.11 — Pictures from inside the 100-year-old "Time Capsule Mansion" in France.
02.12.11 — Voynich Manuscript carbon-dated.
02.09.11 — Hiking up Hollywoodland.
02.09.11 — Crazy 40-year-old locksmith business in New York covered in artfully arranged keys.
02.09.11 — Ghost tour fan shocked by Las Vegas death tour.
02.08.11 — A slideshow of famous dead people we keep disinterring.
02.08.11 — A 1,500-year-old church with an animal-mosaic floor discovered in Israel.
02.08.11 — Mayor of Detroit officially responds to rumors of a RoboCop statue. And it's bad news.
02.08.11 — Proposed plans for a waste incinerator in Denmark that doubles as as ski slope.
02.07.11 — A Japanese restaurant with monkeys in human masks for waiters. Caution: Extremely creepy.
02.06.11 — Big plans for the Mummies of Palermo in Sicily.
02.06.11 — From the Phaistos Disc to the Voynich Manuscript, 10 famous uncracked codes.
02.06.11 — The Russians have almost penetrated Lake Vostok in Antarctica. Panic at what's unleashed to follow.
02.05.11 — First ever "Dark Sky Island" designated.
02.04.11 — A visit to the giant, but no-longer-red T-Rex from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.
02.02.11 — In case you didn't get the announcement, there is now a National Pinball Museum in Washington, DC.
02.02.11 — There is more than just catacombs below Paris.
02.02.11 — Pictures inside London's secret crisis command bunker.
02.01.11 — Massive article from the New Yorker on Guillermo del Toro, his collection, and his process for designing monsters.
01.31.11 — Did you ever have that nightmare where thousands of sharks converge on you? No? Do you want it?
01.29.11 — An eight-foot tall monolithic VHS tape of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
01.29.11 — Plants with spring-loaded harpoon seeds.
01.27.11 — Hitler's last surviving bodyguard quits answering fanmail. What the F...uhrer?
01.25.11 — Latest corpse flower bloom is in Australia.
01.25.11 — Man-made artifact found on an iceberg near the South Pole. I mean, it's just a board, but it's still interesting.
01.25.11 — Around 1.5 million Egyptians in Cairo live in cemeteries.
01.25.11 — The private grave of an "amiable child" in New York.
01.24.11 — Behold...the birth of an island (video).
01.23.11 — "Hotels with a Macabre Past."
01.23.11 — Ancient Transylvanian gold.
01.23.11 — A 400-year-old German screaming skull timepiece with snakes for eyes.
01.23.11 — A sun dog in Michigan.
01.22.11 — Taxidermy store Paxton Gate in Portland, because dead animals are gross, but stuffed animals are cool.
01.22.11 — A hotel made of garbage in Madrid.
01.22.11 — A dog suicide bridge in the UK? That's a journalistic questions mark, so the answer is "No." (via @rskovach)
01.21.11 — Vultures descend on the DC area. Incidentally, a group of vultures is called a committee, a wake, or a venue. Weird.
01.21.11 — A Twin Peaks 20th anniversary art show.
01.21.11 — The Atlas Obscura group explores the Explorer's Club in New York.
01.21.11 — That octopus that predicted silly stuff is being cremated and getting its own shrine.
01.20.11 — French mansion sealed for 100 years is opened to reveal amazing collection.
01.20.11 — Madrid man builds his own cathedral out of throw-away materials.
01.20.11 — A travelogue of Yellowstone National Park's hot springs.
01.20.11 — A padded cell made of cotton candy in New York.
01.19.11 — Happy 202, EAP. For the second year in a row, the Poe Toaster no-shows, probably because of people like this article writer.
01.18.11 — Arrest of a looter might lead to location of Caligula's tomb.
01.18.11 — A look at the mysteries of bog bodies.
01.18.11 — An elaborate Buddhist temple in Thailand features a strange pop culture mural.
01.17.11 — The crypt of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Atlanta.
01.15.11 — Art installation in Vancouver makes it look like a building is on fire.
01.14.11 — Rare jade chinese burial suit from the Han Dynasty up for auction.
01.13.11 — Booty from Blackbeard's shipwreck off the coast of Beaufort, NC, includes a cool sword hilt. Click here to read about my visit to where his house is in the same area.
01.13.11 — World's first orange alligator found and photo'd by a septagenarian in FL.
01.13.11 — The only remaining wall mural in the Tower of London gets investigated...with science.
01.12.11 — A crazy little story about the theft of the corpse of an Irish giant in the 1700s and how its preserved skeleton is being used in medical research today.
01.12.11 — So your witch of local folklore turned out to be a serial killer. Sorry about that Dublin.
01.10.11 — Cedar Rapids, IA, uses "crow coffins" to scare off annual crow hoards. Nobody wants a town full of murders.
01.10.11 — Musical score hidden in the facade of a Renaissance-era church in Naples, Italy.
01.10.11 — A river in British Columbia turns fluorescent green.
01.10.11 — The guy behind the Body Worlds exhibition that showcases real, plasticinated corpses to become a part of the show after his predicted death from Parkinson's.
01.09.11 — Cool pics and video of an eerie underwater sculpture park filled with sculptures of people.
01.05.11 — A.N. Devers's account of how she landed one of Edward Gorey's fur coats at auction.
01.05.11 — Dennis Hopper's art collection up for sale. Includes great anecdate about him, Andy Warhol, and a gun.
01.03.11 — A TIME slideshow about La Santa Muerte, Mexico's not-recognized-by-the-Catholic-Church, saint of death.
01.03.11 — Thousands of dead birds mysteriously fall from the sky in Arkansas.
01.03.11 — A panda cow in Colorado.
01.03.11 — Exploring the tunnels under New York City.
01.03.11 — Perito Moreno, a glacier in Argentina that acts according to its own rules.
01.02.11 — Spot occupied by Zoltar in Big now occupied by a Pepsi machine. Nice photo comparison.
01.01.11 — A cave in Vietnam big enough to devour a skyscraper and still be hungry. Great pics.
