Building Mr. Eiffel’s Penthouse Apartment: A Tower Under Construction
A Parisian friend dropped some very interesting photographs in my inbox this week, some that I’d…
Category Obscure history
Sex, Lies, and LSD: The CIA’s Untold Story of Operation Midnight Climax
Did you ever hear the one about the CIA-employed sex workers who were trained to…
Biblical Bad Girls and Their Ancient “Time’s Up” Scandal
Welcome to Rouen, France, a city where the cider flows freely (it’s a Normandy thing), and the streets are lined with crooked, half-timbered houses that send a singular, ye-olde message: you’re on some seriously ancient stomping grounds. Rouen’s power and influence can be traced from its founding by a sturdy Celtic tribe, to its pivotal […]
Kim Jong-un Married One of His Cheerleaders
It’s a big year for North Korea. The country has qualified 22 athletes for the…
The Town Where It’s Illegal to Die
Candy coloured houses dot the icy valley of Longyearbyen, one of the world’s northernmost towns…
Unearthing Hollywood Treasure in an Arctic Ghost Town
Dawson City, Canada’s favourite “living ghost town,” is finally starting to flesh out again after…
You’re Invited to the Executioner Island Slumber Party
Look carefully at the heart of the Long Island Sound in the night, and you’ll…
Brooklyn’s Best Kept Secret: A Wes Anderson Versailles
You know that great aunt who arrives early, and overdressed, to parties? The one who…
A Day in the Life of Mrs. Grim Reaper
She only comes around once in a lifetime. Travel to any small village in Sardinia, and you…
The Toilet Duty Dukes and Duchesses of England
Those precious moments of alone time in the bathroom are priceless to many of us, and yet strangely…
The Gender Fluid Secret Soldiers of the American Civil War
Today’s subject choice originated by stumbling across a photograph of Albert D.J. Cashier, born Jennie Hodgers in…
Forget the Scenic Route, Take a Detour Down a Corpse Road
Walk with us, as we follow ancient trails where the living once carried the dead.…