Francis E. Dec was a New Yorker who had a relatively normal life as an Air Force radio operator, Bachelor of Arts graduate, and lawyer, unt...

What you're looking at was all built by one man, a humble civil servant with no architectural training working only with his hands an...

All this just to say "Don't do stupid things around trains!" More about it here. Watch it over a few times and catch new de...

The Hole Pictured above: "The Hole", a private prison run by the members of Scientology. This facility in Riverside, Ca...

If the 400-pound guy in the photo gives you the creepers, you don't know the half of it yet. This is James Julius Beaudrie, now in cou...

To test a theory as to how the natives of Easter Island could have transported the massive statues that are their claim to fame, scientis...

Meet Luong Pordaeng, a Thai monk who died sitting in this meditation pose in 1973 and has kept up a startling degree of preservation ever...

 At least, according to NASA's study of the sound that black holes make . The B-flat is well below the human range of hearing, at 5...

Hey kids! You, too, can protect yourself from dangerous mind-control wavey-ray-thingies with your AFDB (Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie) ....

Ksenia Vidyaykina is a Russian-born artist who creates performance art pieces with a feminist message. "Trapped" is a series o...

It's going really viral right now anyway, but oh well, I found it before it was cool.

"Subvertizing" is a kind of culture-jamming art with a political statement, in which a company's logo, mascot, or advertising...

Retrospace found this mind--blowing textbook called "Understanding Human Behavior" , which contains some... shall we say... con...

You've probably seen images with a character like this being tossed around all over the web - they go back years, to the very first i...

The song "Hound Dog", written by Leiber & Stoller and popularized by Elvis Presley, wasn't originally done by El...

Clearly, Joan was expecting the musicians to be themselves. But instead they rolled in wearing their costumes and did the whole show in c...

Just puts 1982 in perspective, doesn't it? I almost can't see a Ms. Pac-Man game without smelling pizza because I saw them in P...

Well, the holidays always seem to bring out the odd hobbies in people, right? You may find yourself in an idle hour or two over winter ...

It's well-known amongst the oldsters of the web, but it's time to introduce it to a new generation. So: The most famous nonin...

A special media-geek treat just in time for Christmas: Head on over to the Educational Comics archive at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln...