After Umberto Eco was invited to submit a short detective story to a magazine, he instead wrote his first novel, “The Name of the Rose”
Taliban blowing up 4th-century statues of Buddha leads to caves filled with 5th-century artwork
The Pirate Cemetery of Madagascar was the off-season home for an estimated 1,000 pirates
The heads of Easter Island have bodies which have been covered up by landslides
The beautiful GM Futurliner – only nine survive & one sold for $4 million
Haeneyo: The last generation of Korea’s real-life mermaids
In 19th century, Clark Stanley patented snake oil and advertised it as a painkiller, saying he had studied its wonders with the Hopi healers
Spanish photographer uses 166-year-old technique to create mesmerizing pictures of kids
Windber Trolley Graveyard: An apocalyptic trolley graveyard sitting deep in the woods of Pennsylvania
47 Minutes of Sinister Silence: The Solo Astronaut who Orbited the Far Side of the Moon
