Strange but True: “The tree that owns itself” is a white oak in Athens, GA, which is widely assumed to legally own itself and the eight feet of land surrounding it News
Aubrey Beardsley and his “morbid imagination” was the most controversial artist of the Art Nouveau era News Lifestyle
Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in China inspired the floating Hallelujah Mountains of “Avatar,” though the Chinese had their problems with the film News Glamour Interiors
Grandma Gatewood continues to inspire as the first woman who solo hiked the 2,168-mile Appalachian Trail Lifestyle News Strangeness
Vinnie Ream won the competition to create a sculpture of Lincoln, but whispers and doubts shadowed her efforts at carving a “man of sorrow” Battlefields Lifestyle News Strangeness
Roopkund is a lake in India famous for the mysterious ancient skeletons that float in its waters Featured News
One of the world’s most preserved mummies, the Lady of Dai, is still soft to the touch, has bendy ligaments, and is 2,100 years old Featured News
New research of the Beaker pottery “phenomenon” suggests that migrants replaced 90 percent of Britain’s population shortly after Stonehenge completed Archeology News