America’s Prehistoric High Rise Apartment Complex
They call it the Montezuma Castle, but the 90ft high monument should never have been…
Category Obscure history
Take a Tour of a 1964 Underground Fallout Home
I found this little gem of a photo series on my weekly fish through the LIFE…
The Curiosity Museum with Cocktails, Taxidermy Classes & Cuddly Crawling Chameleons
“I’m so bored of contemporary museums and their desperate attempt to classify and make sense…
Buried by Nature: The Dark Colonial Past of Jungle Book Island
It has become one with the jungle since the last human inhabitants abandoned its shores in…
Drinking Away the Last Hours of Shanghai
Deep in the LIFE archives, I found myself fascinated by a glimpse into mid 20th century China…
The Ten Year Apocalypse that Nearly Destroyed Midwestern America
If you saw Christopher Nolan’s science fiction epic, Interstellar, you’ll recall the first few minutes of the…
Liverpool has a Buried Underworld and No One Knows Why
For fifteen years, retired Liverpudlian locals and curious have-a-go volunteers have been digging up a…
This is Not Burning Man, These are the Soviet Bus Stops of Siberia
At first glance, I thought I was looking at one of this year’s fantastical desert…
The Original Hilton Sisters
Before Paris and Niki graced the tabloid headlines, it was the siamese sisters of Vaudeville –…
That time Picasso might have stolen the Mona Lisa
Piccasso is probably most famous for his affairs, his extravagant bohemian lifestyle, oh and his…
What they Wore to the Vanderbilt Ball: Inside the Photo Album
Like they do at prom, the guests of the 1883 Vanderbilt fancy dress ball each…
Fake Chalets: Unmasking the Bunkers disguised as Quaint Swiss Villas
Traditional wood green shutters, lace curtains, Swiss chalet beams; all the makings of a quaint…