The Antikythera mechanism, an ancient analog “computer”, said to be “more valuable than the Mona Lisa” News Strangeness
The Library of Trinity College in Dublin: A 300-year-old institution, home to over 200,000 books News Interiors
Expert re-creates the shoes of 5,300-year-old Ötzi the Iceman, down to the bearskin soles and hay-stuffed lining Fashion Lifestyle Strangeness
Nan Madol: a mysterious city called Atlantis where underwater “platinum coffins” were supposedly discovered by the Japanese Abandoned Spaces Strangeness
Georges Méliès, the magic-minded dreamer who in 1902 filmed “The Trip to the Moon” and showed us what movies are capable of Lifestyle News Strangeness Vintage Hollywood
Loving vs. Virginia: The interracial couple that helped eliminate anti-miscegenation laws still on the books in 1967 News
The Doll Family, four dwarf siblings who found success in Hollywood, not only in “The Wizard of Oz” but in another classic, “Freaks” Glamour Strangeness Vintage Hollywood
The Edwardian-with-a-twist Teddy Boy clothing style: the men who followed the fashion in the 1950s were considered dangerous Fashion News Vintage Hollywood
The makers of “Alien” had everything designed except for the terrifying being itself and for that, they turned to H. R. Giger Strangeness News
The Wild West era, a period of myth-making cowboys, gunslingers, and saloon madames, actually lasted only 30 years Strangeness Glamour News