Inside the New Legoland Hotel

Behold the Legoland Hotel

Your room is 100 percent guaranteed to have a small, hard piece of jagged plastic for you to step on.

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How Many Different Things Can Make A Little Kid Cry?

Tons. This hilarious blog shines a light on some of the more unpredictable causes.

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No Nonsense Nuptial Invitations

It’s refreshing for the bride and groom to come right out and acknowledge that some of you wedding guests just don’t want to be there.

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Another Flea Market Masterpiece

Every once in a while you hear about someone finding a valuable piece of art at a thrift store, garage sale or flea market. Marcia Fuqua found an authentic Renoir, and then things got interesting.

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How Do You Launder 11K Pounds of Nutella?

A giant hazelnut heist has been perpetrated in Germany. What are the thieves to do now?

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Listen Up, Squatters

These mansions are really interesting ... and totally empty.

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April 9, 1865: Lee Waves the White Flag

Robert E. Lee surrendered and ended the Civil War 148 years ago today.

6 Ways Game of Thrones has Changed the Real World. Even those who don't watch it know the characters as cultural metaphors.

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The Only Thing Worse than Watching an Offensively Bad Comedy is Watching One You Supposedly Wrote. A.J. Via got a movie deal and lost all control of the finished product.

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To Fight Smallpox in the Spanish Colonies, King Charles IV Sent a Ship on a Vaccination Mission in 1803. The expedition included 22 orphans carrying the fresh vaccine in their bodies to keep it safe enough to last the voyage around the world.

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For Centuries, People Celebrated a Little Boy’s First Pair of Trousers. Once he was toilet-trained and could dress himself, he could become a real boy.

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What A Doctor Calls A Condition Can Affect How We Decide To Treat It. A familiar terms carries a lot of baggage, while a new term will encourage patients to just follow doctor's orders.

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Ben Stiller's Never-Ending Midlife Crisis. His new movie Brad's Status is the fourth that explores that theme.

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Sir Arthur and the Fairies. After a thorough but flawed investigation, the Sherlock Holmes author believed the Cottingley Fairies were real.

16 Great Stephen King Stories to Read This Fall. In case you want to scare yourself silly alone in the dark.

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Cowabunga! Strange Cow Stories. Bossy has gotten herself into some weird places.

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How Two Lesbians Fought the Nazis With a Typewriter. Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe kept up a propaganda war from their home in the Channel Islands.

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Can You Survive on Potatoes Alone? Maybe, but there are drawbacks to potatoes as a life-sustaining food.

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Why Back-to-School Season Feels Like the New Year—Even for Adults. The majority of people spend more than half their lives tied to the school calendar.

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A Visual History of Lunchboxes. Come for the nostalgia, stay for the trivia.

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An Austrian Ossuary Holds Hundreds of Elaborately Hand-Painted Skulls. The custom is a combination of memento mori and identification.

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A Brief History of United States Currency. Until the Civil War, money was printed privately by banks.