The Mahencha Apartments of Gary, Indiana
Sometimes Interesting has teamed up with the Idiot Photographer to bring the reader a unique insight to the history of Gary, Indiana. Over the...
The Baikonur Cosmodrome: World’s Oldest Space Launch Facility
About 1,300 miles (2,100 km) southeast of Moscow in the desert steppe of Kazakhstan, the world’s oldest and largest operational space launch facility is...
Europe’s Deserted Border Crossings
If you traveled across Europe in the 1990s, you know how difficult it was to cross borders. You had to stop at every border...
The Horace Mann School
The Horace Mann School of Gary, Indiana is on the short list of American high schools that have graduated more than 75 classes of...
The Conservatory Under a Lake
Previously Sometimes Interesting featured the story of a twenty-first century swindler and the spoils of his deception. In this post we examine a nineteenth-century...
Ghosts of the Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range Railroad
Northern Minnesota's economy has been powered by locomotives for over one hundred and thirty years. The ensuing boom after the nineteenth-century discovery of iron...
