North America
BTI: An Alaskan Town in a Tower
In the 1950s the United States government built a bunker of a residential skyscraper in the Alaskan wilderness. The purpose of the bomb-proof mid-century Hodge...
Oklahoma’s Hidden Chalkboards of Yesteryear
The Emerson School dates to 1895 and is one of the first public schools built in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The classic building is already...
Blue Ridge Blight on Afton Mountain
In the 1950s and 60s the motor court rest stop at Rockfish Gap on Afton Mountain was a motoring mecca, offering Virginia motorists a...
The Last House on Holland Island
Built in 1888, this Victorian home from a different era has braved the elements and fought shoreline erosion on Holland Island in Chesapeake Bay...
Ishi: The Last Wild North American Indian
Guest Post Series
words by Cary O'Dell
It was August of 1911, when Sheriff J.B. Webber of Oroville, California, got word of a strange “savage” found...
The Ground is Smoking in Centralia, Pennsylvania
Centralia was incorporated as a borough in 1866 when coal was discovered in the area. Coal mining gave birth to the town and it...
