The Middle Ages is certainly not an era devoid of mysteries and strange symbolism, but the Codex Gigas is a...
It was the night of April 14, 1912, and RMS Titanic, the Ship of Dreams, was sinking. As we all...
This church was built, with the adjacent cloister, between 1454 and 1472 in honor of St Bernardino of Siena.... In...
The Church of the Holy Trinity of Hrastovlje, Slovenia, is decorated in its interior with a rare example of a...
The world is filled with a cornucopia of stories, misteries and legends, and when we read or listen these, we...
Money may not grow on trees, but ice cream beans yes! Discovered in Central and South America, ice cream beans...
In an isolated field near a dilapidated barn stands this chilling portrayal of the situation of the Nuba peoples of...
Hawaii’s ongoing eruption created new land, but only for a few days... Last week, a small new island was born....
The Spanish Fortress of L'Aquila know as "il Castello" by the Aquilans, is one of the most impressive Renaissance castle...
Here we are: Compared to more intimidating Icelandic specialties, for example sour rams’ testicles or fermented shark, the three-meat Icelandic...
In the middle ages, creating a book wasn’t easy, and could take years: a scribe would bend over his copy...
For many centuries the world-famous Tower of London, built in 1078 on the north bank of the Thames, is guarded...
Kostel svatého Jiří (St. George’s Church) in Luková, Czech Republic, has been neglected for more than 40 years. Believing it...
The start of the great Danube, which flows over 2,700 kilometers, through 10 countries, before to flows into the Black...
It was the 90s, the years in which the waterparks were all the rage. This was built in record time...
Here we are: If they are speaking about Rocky Mountain oysters, Cowboy caviar, or Prairie oysters, they not speak about...
King Frederick William I of Prussia, also know as “The Soldier King”, was undoubtedly a leader, skilled to running his...
Here we are: It’s unusual that someone speak about an ice cream parlor into the Netherlands’ national news, but that’s...
“Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whack When she saw what she had done She gave...
Lost on the edge of Cape Denison in Antarctica, there is a small group of huts that were built by...
A story with a happy ending that of these incredible tenacious 14th-century towers survived of a demolition and now a...
Here we are: We are in Finland, where black licorice is intensified with a hit of salty, stinging ammonium chloride,...
Glastonbury Tor is a conical hill located in the English town of the Somerset county of the same name. It...
Following the request attached to the will, the body of the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham was embalmed and preserved after...
In 1651, after the battle of Worcester, Charles II, who would go on become the king of England, climbed a...
The Fountain of 99 Spouts (in italian Fontana delle 99 Cannelle), is an icon in the city of L’Aquila, and...
Here we are: If we are in Mexico, and at some point we want to go to the restaurant. But...
Here we are: Today the vending machines are increasingly common all over the world. But just imagine a 24-hour vending...
This curious ruins of a monumental tower in the heart of Lebanese mountains, on the main road leading to the...
Did you read our story? Do you remember? In Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1324 Petronilla de Meath is burned at the...
