13 Bizarre Jobs: From Vomit Collectors to Worm Pickers
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to hand out business cards that proclaim you a ‘professional sleeper’, or fortune cookie writer? Of course, for every curiously awesome job, there’s a ...
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Gargoyles: From Gothic Garglers to Grotesque Guardians
If the words "gargle" and "gargoyle" sound similar that's no coincidence, but from their original function as decorative downspouts gargoyles have evolved into whimsically sculptured, cathedral ...
Brutal Torture: 16 Twisted Techniques & Historic Devices
Crime and punishment have been a necessary part of human society since we first began living in groups, and as long as laws have been in effect, there have been punishments to match. Whether ...
Blown To Smithereens: The Strange Story Of Survival Town
One pleasant spring day in 1955, an atomic bomb blasted an American city into oblivion. This is the story of Survival Town, a purpose-built collection of structures, buildings, even mannequins ...
10 Of The Most Chilling Haunted Castles In The World
Have you ever heard an odd sound in the dark, a weird whisper of the wind, shiver with unexplained goosebumps, or have the feeling of being watched? Scoff if you like but most people have at some ...
Tilted In Your Favor: 13 (More!) Famous Leaning Towers
Just as there's more to food than pizza, there's more to leaning towers than Pisa. These 13 slanted spires show that staying on the straight & narrow isn't all it's cracked up to be; though if ...
14 Super Places to Swim: From the Bizarre to the Beautiful
It's been said, Don't wait for your ship to come in - swim out to it. This positive slant on the big picture of life is something that swimmers can really get into. Across this world, there are ...
Then and Now: Disturbing Documentary Photography Series
When the Allied Forces came ashore in the Normandy region of France on June 6th, 1944, they freed French citizens from occupation by Germany – but the battle to do so was not without its costs, ...
Clonehenges: 20 Creative Recreations of Stonehenge
Stonehenge, the historic and mysterious monument on the Salisbury Plain in England, has intrigued humans for centuries. While no one is really sure what it was used for or how it was built, one ...
At World’s End: 13 (More) Artistic Post-Apocalyptic Visions
Our small blue planet - and everything on it - is destined to be fried to a crisp by an expanding sun some 5 billion years hence. Will anyone be around to observe the final sunset, or will society ...
