people

3 min read

• History

Ramesses II: the first (and probably the last) mummy to receive a passport!

6 years ago Adam

2 min read

• Travel

Signal de Botrange: the highest point in Belgium is a staircase to nowhere

6 years ago Ivan

3 min read

• Travel

Baldpate Inn in Estes Park: the curious inn that houses 30,000 keys

6 years ago Leo S

2 min read

• Breaking News

Today is 02/02/2020: the first palindrome day after 909 years

6 years ago Adam

3 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

The “anomalous” burial of a child in a 5th century Umbrian cemetery

7 years ago Adam

4 min read

• Travel

A forest of pillars, recalling the Holocaust: the controversial Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin

7 years ago Anya

6 min read

• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Chinese New Year 2020: the year of the Golden Rat. History and traditions of a millenary festival.

7 years ago Pavel

5 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Inez Clarke, the haunted statue of Chicago’s Graceland Cemetery that lives again whenever there is a thunderstorm

7 years ago Leo S

2 min read

• Travel

Venice: the only city in the world whose shape resembles a Swan

7 years ago Danijel90

3 min read

• Abandoned Places

Fort de la Chartreuse: the fort that was never used…as a fort!

7 years ago Anya

2 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Udre Udre’s Grave: in Fiji islands, the resting place of the most prolific cannibal of all time.

7 years ago Nathan

10 min read

• Art and Photography

Paris through a Nazi’s lens: Propaganda pictures of Occupied France in 1940’s

7 years ago Robin

4 min read

• People, mysteries and stories

“Half-Hangit” Maggie Dickson: the woman who survived the hangman’s noose.

7 years ago Leo S

2 min read

• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

The splendid grave of the dancer Rudol’f Nureev covered by a rug like mosaic

7 years ago Robin

4 min read

• People, mysteries and stories

122 and not feeling it: the (unhealthy) Lifestyle of the longest-lived person in history!

7 years ago Adam

3 min read

• Travel

The real Sleepy Hollow: where the legends lives!

7 years ago Robin

5 min read

• Lighthouses of the world

Fire Island Lighthouse – history and ghosts!

7 years ago Danijel90

2 min read

• History

January 1985-2020: the anniversary of the greatest snowfall of the (last) century.

7 years ago Anya

1 min read

• Travel

Berlin: The Return of the Cows

7 years ago Anya

3 min read

• Travel

Snagov Monastery: the island that (allegedly) houses the tomb of Dracula

7 years ago Ivan

2 min read

• Travel

Fremont Troll – Seattle

7 years ago Nathan

2 min read

• Food

Son-in-Law Eggs: The curious story behind this Thai food delicacy

7 years ago Nathan

2 min read

• Art and Photography

A splendid collection of rare color Photos of Paris taken about 100 Years Ago

7 years ago Robin

2 min read

• Travel

Sapporo, Japan: a giant Buddha statue wrapped in a Lavender Hill

7 years ago Pavel

4 min read

• History

The Wonders of New York: a Midcentury Map packed with weird local stories

7 years ago Leo S

3 min read

• Art and Photography

Julia Margaret Cameron: the greatest Victorian-era portrait photographer

7 years ago Pavel

4 min read

• Abandoned Places

Sostila, the uninhabited village where the road don’t go

7 years ago Anya

3 min read

• Travel

Metelkova: the alternative cultural center in Ljubljana

7 years ago Ivan

4 min read

• People, mysteries and stories

Amelia Dyer: the Victorian “Baby Farmer” who killed 200 to 400 children

7 years ago Pavel

4 min read

• Abandoned Places

The ruins of the lost city of Nan Madol: a pearl in South Pacific

7 years ago Nathan

2 min read

• Abandoned Places

The World Discoverer: the ship that got left behind.

7 years ago Nathan

2 min read

• Food

Boilo: the original Coal Miner Liquor

7 years ago Leo S

3 min read

• Random Christmas 2019

24# Feast of the Seven Fishes

7 years ago Leo S

2 min read

• Random Christmas 2019

23# Julmust: the soft drink that outsells Coca-Cola during Christmas seasons in Sweden

7 years ago Nathan

2 min read

• Random Christmas 2019

22# Black Cake: a Caribbean tradition

7 years ago Nathan

2 min read

• Random Christmas 2019

21# Puto Bumbong – Philippines

7 years ago Ivan

3 min read

• Art and Photography

“The Ugly Duchess”: the Enigma of the portrait of a woman deformed by a rare disease (or not?)

7 years ago Adam

1 min read

• Random Christmas 2019

20# An Australian white Christmas…

7 years ago Nathan

3 min read

• Random Christmas 2019

19# Fruitcake: the gift that keeps on giving

7 years ago Leo S

2 min read

• Food
• Weather

How to predict winter weather using a persimmon seed: a curious peasant legend

7 years ago Pavel

2 min read

• Random Christmas 2019

18# Melomakarona: Greek Christmas Honey Cookies with curious origins

7 years ago Ivan

2 min read

• Random Christmas 2019

17# Lussekatter – Swedish saffron buns

7 years ago Nathan