FROM OUR SPECIAL ISSUE

Each fall, millions of migrating monarchs return to Mexico to wait out winter. The gathering makes Woodstock look like a business conference. Here’s how they get there.

A.J. Jacobs shows that although privacy may be endangered in the digital age, we’re still better off than many of our ancestors. In the past, everyone was all up in your business.

Unless you want to start a boxing match with kangaroos, don’t steal pebbles from Australia's Uluru formation.

These strange, spooky cemetery tales of vampires, ghosts, and bloody headstones will keep you up at night.

Until recently, all of these plants and animals were assumed missing or extinct. Now, they're making a glorious comeback.

Brave the cobwebs and you might just discover why one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. Thanks to nostalgic collectors with money to burn, many of the items that were once everywhere have now skyrocketed in value.

Starting today, you can find a special edition of Mental Floss magazine in a Barnes & Noble near you.

For 50 years, 'Sesame Street' has taught kids how to count, how to spell, and that not all vampires are scary.

Browse our dossier of questions that have probably come to you in the shower. (Including why thoughts often come to you in the shower.)

According to Klemtu's residents, the hairy, human-like creatures have always been there, in the dense forests and remote areas across the nation’s traditional territory.

The Confederate Army general's death stumped his doctors—but now we might have a clue about what happened.

Until now, the full story of the Trapper Keeper had only been told in a marketing textbook. Here's how your favorite school supply became an icon.