local history

6 min read

• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Lughnasadh: the ancient festival that still echoes across 5,000 years of history, myth and harvest

4 days ago Leo S

5 min read

• Music

The crossroads bargain: the legend of Robert Johnson and the Devil who changed the Blues forever

1 week ago Danilo

3 min read

• Travel

When the Sea Steps Aside: South Korea’s Real-Life Moses Miracle

2 weeks ago Ivan

4 min read

• Music

The Macarena: one of the world’s most famous dance…to a song almost nobody understands

2 weeks ago Danilo

6 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Where Miracles Whisper Among the Tombs: The Twin Cemeteries of Aguascalientes

3 weeks ago Ivan

3 min read

• People, mysteries and stories

The House Within a House: Croatia’s Most Remarkable Legend of Defiance

3 weeks ago Danijel90

3 min read

• Travel

The Grudge (Al Ba’sa): Beirut’s razor-thin house built out of spite

4 weeks ago Ivan

3 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Kubur Kassim Cemetery: Where Singapore’s Muslim Heritage Meets Ancient Folklore

4 weeks ago Nathan

3 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

The Sailor’s Stone: the mysterious grave that has told a story of murder for more than two centuries

4 weeks ago Leo S

3 min read

• Sport

Mexico’s ‘Field of the Gods’: Football, Tradition and Community Inside an Ancient Volcano

1 month ago Nathan

3 min read

• People, mysteries and stories

A Grave Without a Name: the Unknown man of Hardingstone!

1 month ago Danijel90

4 min read

• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Meet the Crimson Dawn Witches that appear every Midsummer’s Eve on Wyoming’s Casper Mountain!

1 month ago Leo S

2 min read

• Food

Panther Milk: developed by Spain’s elite military unit in the 1920s, this cocktail is a favorite among Barcelona’s college students!

2 months ago Nathan

4 min read

• History

The Lambrate Sarcophagus: a remarkable discovery beneath Milan

2 months ago Anya

2 min read

• Art and Photography

The Tale of the Scale and the Skull

2 months ago Adam

3 min read

• Travel

The fascinating history of Sealand – the world’s smallest independent state

2 months ago Robin

2 min read

• Travel

Balloon Corner – a monument to early air travel (and an unhappy cat)

2 months ago Robin

3 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

The mysterious Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague

3 months ago Adam

2 min read

• Travel

Wanuskewin: Sample cuisine inspired by the Great Plains indigenous people who have been gathering at this sacred Canadian Heritage Park for 6,000 years!

3 months ago Nathan

2 min read

• Abandoned Places
• Lighthouses of the world

The desert lighthouse of Astrakhan – a fascinating anomaly in Russia’s Astrakhan region

3 months ago Nathan

3 min read

• Abandoned Places

Club Med Ruins: a crumbling Caribbean resort hidden just steps from a beautiful pink sand beach

3 months ago Nathan

2 min read

• Travel

Margherita Hut: the remote mountain cabin that’s Europe’s highest building!

3 months ago Danijel90

2 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Romerillo Cemetery – the isolated Maya cemetery distinguished by its towering, colorful wooden crosses.

3 months ago Ivan

4 min read

• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Walpurgis Night – the Witches’ Sabbath on the night of April 30

3 months ago Danijel90

3 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Chichicastenango, one of the colorful cemetery of Guatemala

4 months ago Danilo

2 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Pierre Loti Hill: have tea in a cemetery with a dazzling view of Istanbul!

5 months ago Ivan

3 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Sofi Hamid: a colorful and enigmatic cemetery in the middle of nowhere

5 months ago Adam

2 min read

• Travel

Stuckey’s Bridge and the ghost of Old Man Stuckey

5 months ago Danijel90

2 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

United in Death: the linked headstones of Het Oude Kerkhof!

5 months ago Robin

2 min read

• Travel

A victorian secret London and urine deflectors of Fleet Street

5 months ago Danijel90

2 min read

• Travel

Lac Salé: legend says this remote, “bottomless” lake was created by a curse!

6 months ago Ivan

4 min read

• History

Via Port’Alba: the 17th-century passageway home to numerous bookshops, a witch legend, and the oldest pizzeria in the world!

6 months ago Danilo

3 min read

• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

How Croatia bans winter

6 months ago Danijel90

2 min read

• Travel

Carreró de les Bruixes: a signal indicates the entrance to this alley, rumored to be a meeting place for witches!

6 months ago Danilo

2 min read

• Travel

Needless Alley – a small alleyway with an unusual moniker!

6 months ago Danijel90

2 min read

• History

When groundhog was on the menu of Pennsylvania

6 months ago Nathan

2 min read

• Abandoned Places

The Lion House: when humans abandoned this safari lodge, the lions took over.

6 months ago Ivan

1 min read

• Travel

The Finger: discover wooden middle fingers raised in protest

6 months ago Nathan

3 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Tomb of the Dunbar victims: the unidentified remains from a wreck sometimes known as “Australia’s Titanic.”

7 months ago Nathan

3 min read

• Travel

Bosco Verticale: a vertical forest in the middle of Milan’s urban jungle

7 months ago Danijel90

12 min read

• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

The Month of January 2026: holidays, folklore and traditions

7 months ago randomcollabs

2 min read

• Travel

‘Arc Majeur’ by Bernard Venet, the work of art, which took 35 years to complete, that has a motorway running through it!

7 months ago Robin