The Wieliczka Salt Mine in Poland is the epitome of technological human progress. The beginnings of the current mine are believed to have been primitively excavated after the discovery of a rock... »

Wonders of Salt, Odd Accommodations, Long Now Locations, Curious Places of Worship, Eccentric Homes, Outsider Architecture, Subterranean Sites | Edited by michelle, Dylan and others

Nicolaus Copernicus was the first astronomer to develop a complete theory of the universe with the sun at the center. With his "heliocentric model" published in 1543, Copernicus showed that the... »

Strange Science, Unique Collections | Edited by Trevor and Dylan

In 2005, a memorial was put up near the small town of Emilcin, Poland consisting of a metal cube balanced on top of a a rock. It commemorates the most famous alleged UFO abduction case in Polish... »

Unusual Monuments | Edited by Alpha and Dylan

When settlers of Bochnia, Poland discovered a rich vein of rock salt running beneath their town in 1248, it was the medieval equivalent of striking gold. Minerals brought out of the Bochnia mine... »

Wonders of Salt, Curious Places of Worship, Subterranean Sites | Edited by Josh, Dylan and 2 others

In 1776, while America was declaring its independence from England, and bodies were piling up in the American revolutionary war, a priest and grave digger in the small Polish town of Czermna, (a... »

Ossuaries, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries, Curious Places of Worship | Edited by Dylan, pataszonek and 2 others

In Gabin, Poland lie the remains of what was quite recently the tallest structure in the world. At 646 meters (2120 feet), the Konstantynow Radio Tower, built between 1970 and 1974, stuck nearly a... »

Incredible Ruins | Edited by Alpha and Henry

In Racibórz, there is a museum for the history of the village and dental medicine. The biggest collection of instruments for dentists is not that big, but it seems nobody else cared to collect... »

Medical Museums, Unique Collections, Mummies, Repositories of Knowledge | Edited by Dylan and commanderkeen

Gliwice Radio Tower, or "the Silesian Eiffel Tower" as the locals call it, stands 387 feet tall and it is quite possibly the tallest wooden structure in the world. Built in 1935 on August 31,... »

Outsider Architecture | Edited by Alpha and Dylan

At the turn of the 20th century, in the moment just before the birth of cinema, there was the fotoplastikon. Based on the enormous success of home stereoscopic viewers in the Victorian era, the... »

Optical Oddities, Architectural Oddities | Edited by Josh, Dylan and others