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6 Cities and Towns That Were Relocated Completely
Why is it so hard for us humans to let go? We're obsessed with preserving the things we love—even when logic tells us it's time to move on. One large scale example of this irrational behavior: The...
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How Human History Could Have Turned Out (And Probably Should Have)
In this infinite universe of ours, every event that occurs and every choice that we make continually split away into countless individual timelines—alternate realities, if you will. So who's to say...
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7 Bizarrely Fascinating Videos From a North Korean Travel Agency
It's hard not to feel a sense of simultaneous discomfort and awe while watching the fascinatingly bizarre YouTube channel of Koryo Tours, a Beijing-based travel agency specializing in trips to North...
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8 Incredible Images That Make Mars Look Like A Petri Dish
Though NASA sadly spent its recent 55th birthday furloughing employees thanks to the government shutdown, the discovery of water in Martian soil just a week earlier made for a pretty thrilling...
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11 of the Weirdest Sites on the Internet
The internet is a wondrous place, but for every fantastic website out there, it seems like there are two weird ones. We asked you, dear readers, what some of the strangest sites you’ve ever seen were,...
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Art Wars: 12 Stormtrooper Helmets Get Hilarious High-Art Makeovers
In a film packed with great costume and set design (Leia's buns! The AT-ATs! Tauntaun guts!), the Stormtroopers' glistening white exoskeletons are among the most memorable details from Star Wars....
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Huge Machines Hurl Artificial Storms Deep Inside This NASA Hangar
The colossal wind tunnels at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, have been used for decades not only to test the aerodynamism of planes, but also to subject submarines to simulations...
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These 230-Year-Old Charts and Graphs Were the Very First Infographics
The Enlightenment gave us many foundational ideas: Gravity! Democracy! Infographics! Wait, what? Yep. One of the age's lesser-known byproducts was the niche field of "graphical statistics," aka data...
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31 Levitating Vehicles From the Dawn of the Hovercraft
Hovercrafts are truly amazing vehicles: Whether on land, water, mud or ice, these air-cushioned craft rule the unpaved wilderness. And they were born from a wildly optimistic and experimental era of...
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One Photographer's Three Year Tour of NYC's Best Rooftops
Even if you've lived in New York for decades, gaining access to a rooftop you've never explored can still be surprisingly fun: The burst of wind, the sound of traffic, and an entirely new vantage...
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A Photographic Tour of Russia's Disappearing Soviet-Era Cinemas
The phenomenon of the multiplex cinema goes back decades in America, but in Russia, the verdict is still out. Some residents aren't happy about watching the grand—though often decaying—movie theaters...
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Modern Day China Painted By North Korean Propaganda Artists
At first glance, The Beautiful Future—a series of paintings made in Pyongyang, North Korea—looks like standard propaganda fare: Happy citizens, lush farmlands, and bustling industry. Except...
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12 Postcards From When NYC Was the Skyscraper Capital of the World
New York City was a different place in the 1940s. It was a time before video billboards and LED lights, and skyscrapers were still a source of city-wide awe and pride. Everyone who lived in this...
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16 Incredible Animals and Landscapes You Can Only See With a Microscope
The electron microscope is a fascinating scientific device—it uses an electron beam to illuminate a specimen, magnifying it up to 10 million times. With it, scientists can look deep into the substance...
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6 Buildings That Are Hiding in Plain Sight
We're used to hearing about military camouflage, which has been used to hide everything from ships to whole towns. But there are plenty of less explicit forms of large-scale camouflage out there—like...
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30 Starry Wonders Hiding Inside of Dull Meteorites
A few weeks ago, Russian divers extracted a 1,250-pound chunk of the infamous Chelyabinsk meteorite from a lake where it landed on February 15. The massive space stone ended up cracking into three...
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27 Unearthly Objects Made Of Stars
A few days ago, we admired the cosmic beauty hidden inside of dull-looking meteorites. Scientists crack open these space rocks in the name of research, plenty of other meteorite enthusiasts do it for...
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10 Decaying Giants That Still Guard the Spirit of the Soviet Union
When the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ceased to exist in 1991, propaganda art began to disappear, and once-grand social realist murals, reliefs and all manner of mosaics have dwindled. But in...
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10 Cold War Weapons That Terrified U.S. Military Intelligence
When US-Soviet relationships were at their frostiest in the 1980s, there was no telling what sort of exotic threat was about to come roaring through Russia's Iron Curtain. That's where the Defense...
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26 Stunning Cartoon Backdrops That Deserve To Be Hung on a Wall
Have you ever found yourself watching a cartoon and noticing the illustrations behind the characters? Those backgrounds can often be prettier than the action in the foreground. If only those pesky mice...
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