The lifelong dream of prolific calligrapher, Donald Jackson, to create a hand-illumanited and hand-written bible came true in 1998 through what is now known as the "Bible project". The Bible... »

Astounding Timepieces, Rites and Rituals | Edited by bboas, Annetta and 2 others

Behind appropriately impressive heavy doors and ornate turn of the century stained glass windows, the Explorers Club headquarters on East 70th street looks like it has been been there forever -... »

Wonder Cabinets, Natural History, Repositories of Knowledge, Dead Explorers | Edited by Annetta, Rachel and others

In 1978, two men were hunting for arrowheads along the Bosque River in Waco, Texas, and came upon a curiously large bone. When they took it to be examined at the nearby Baylor University, they... »

Fascinating Fauna, Natural History | Edited by allison

Dighton Rock State Park houses a tiny museum which encloses Dighton Rock, which has been moved from its original location at the waterline of the nearby Taunton River. The extensive petroglyphs on... »

Cultures and Civilizations | Edited by ivesian

Located in the waters north of Manhattan, lies two and a half acres of barren rock with quite the history. This rock is the repulsively titled Rat Island. Rat Island is part of a chain of tiny... »

Watery Wonders | Edited by HJHausman and Annetta

In a glaring 19th-century example of the privileged 1 percent, the Carnegie family owned 90% of Cumberland Island, including a gigantic 59-room Scottish mansion on the south shores. After being... »

Ghost Towns, Architectural Oddities, Incredible Ruins | Edited by atimian

For the last 30 years, a small black mailbox printed with the words "Kindred Spirit" has graced the shores of Bird Island. Although no one knows the identity of the real Kindred Spirit, visitors... »

Intriguing Environs | Edited by atimian

With the myriad of museums and exhibitions to visit in the Big Apple, the Panorama of the City of New York exhibit at the Queens Museum of Art is one that deserves a special appointment.... »

Small Worlds and Model Towns, Marvelous Maps and Measures, Architectural Oddities | Edited by bboas and atimian

The story of Lizzie Borden is a sad and hair-raising tale that lives on through her home that is now a bed and breakfast/museum in Fall River, Massachusetts. On August 4th, 1892 Andrew Borden... »

Odd Accommodations, Eccentric Homes | Edited by bboas and Annetta

When a wave of B virus swept through the monkey population in Puerto Rico's Caribbean Primate Research Center in 1979, a few hundred rhesus monkeys were shipped to an island off South Carolina's... »

Fascinating Fauna | Edited by atimian