Asia
The Island Shaped Like a Battleship: Hashima
Populated from 1887 to 1974, Hashima was originally purchased by Mitsubishi to be run as a coal mining facility. Just off the coast of...
Shipwrecked: MS World Discoverer Cruise Ship
Hidden in a remote bay of the Solomon Islands, the beached wreck of the German-built Liberian Cruise ship MS World Discoverer slowly rusts. Built...
Turkmenistan’s Door to Hell
Turkmenistan is seventy percent desert – the Karakum Desert, to be exact. The nation is divided into five provinces, the second largest being the...
Population Density Nightmare: Kowloon Walled City
Originally built as a Chinese military fort, the Kowloon Walled City became a residential enclave after the New Territories were released to Britain in...
Foxconn: Depressing Apple Factory
Previously Sometimes Interesting featured Guiyu, the Chinese town tasked with disposing most of the world's electronics. What about the origins of the electronics we...
The Vitim Event
At approximately 10:00 pm on September 25th, 2002, a large explosion was detected in the Vitim River Basin near the town of Bodaybo in...
