Flak towers: Hitler ordered bomb-proof concrete buildings with 11-foot-thick walls to ward off aerial attacks
19th century aristocrats hired men to grow long hair and fingernails and pose in the garden as “ornamental hermits”
Robby the Robot of “Forbidden Planet” breaks auction records after selling for $5.3 million
Victorian fashion: Restrictive, uncomfortable, one fashion item killed over 3000 women
Weird Thought: The astronaut who took this photo, is the only human, alive or dead that isn’t in this picture taken in1969
After Ava Gardner swam naked in Hemingway’s pool, he supposedly ordered that the water never be changed
The Wieliczka Salt Mine: An astonishing underground city, dating from 13th century
The 3,200-year-old President Tree is so big it has rarely been captured in one photo …
It took two years to restore Bert Lahr’s 60-pound Cowardly Lion costume, and it sold for $3.1 million
A wonder of nature “helped” by an earthquake: The Sunken Forest of Lake Kaindy
