Kazakhstan’s Kaindy Lake: Home to Haunting Underwater Ghost Trees
While it sounds like something out of a fairy tale, Kazakhstan's Kaindy Lake is home to an upside-down, underwater forest. Located in the southeastern...
The Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic
Much less serious than the Dancing Plague was the Tanganyika laughter epidemic of 1962. On January 30th, three girls at a boarding school in...
The Story of Gennie Pilarski
Genevieve "Gennie" Pilarski quietly passed away in her nursing home room one September day in 1998 at the age of 79. Few noticed or...
Glenn Dale Hospital: Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Asbestos Asylum
Thirty minutes east of Washington D.C., a collection of brick buildings are deteriorating on a sixty-acre campus buried in a residential pocket of Glenn...
ADX Florence: The U.S.’s Most Secure Prison
ADX Florence, built south of Florence Colorado in 1994, is the maximum security prison in the United States prison system. Commonly referred to as...
Thames Town: an English Town in China
You're not far from Shanghai, yet the spire of the Victorian revival church in front of you casts its shadow across a medieval town...
Forgotten Seattle: Abandoned Streets and Buildings from the City’s Early Years
Seattle isn’t called the Emerald City for nothing -- its lush, evergreen trees are dazzling. But one thing that makes this seaport metro sparkle,...
