10 Houses Built Out of Spite
Sometimes they block a neighboring house's view, or are built to challenge city ordinances. These are spite houses—buildings constructed to make someone mad.
Sometimes they block a neighboring house's view, or are built to challenge city ordinances. These are spite houses—buildings constructed to make someone mad.
Want to be cremated, but worry that your ashes will just end up buried in a cemetery or sitting in some boring urn? Fear not! Have a look at these 10 bizarre places that ashes have gone. 1. Into a Comic
We all dream of having some superpower to help navigate life. Some people have those powers. Let's just hope they remember that with great power, comes great responsibility.
When you want to keep a vast fortune or priceless object secure, look no further: These safes and vaults are famous for being virtually impregnable.
Women are doing amazing work in primatology, the study of monkeys, apes, prosimians, and even humans. Although many are working on furthering our understanding of our closest relatives, we will take a look at only the most prominent.
Here in the U.S., you can name your kid almost anything, but that's not the case everywhere in the world.
In March, the city of Topeka, Kansas, unofficially changed its name to Google for a month in an effort to promote itself as an attractive destination for the tech giant to test its new fiber-optic technology. In 1998, the capital city temporarily changed
You know the characters, but you might not know their full names. Store these tidbits away in your noggin for future trivia.
A Bill Murray comedy as metaphor? These eight theories say yes.
Here are some of the most interesting catacombs open for visits around the world.
Shortstop Johnny Jones must have felt great about being traded for a 25-pound turkey.
Diplomatic immunity may be intended to keep diplomats from running afoul of local authorities while serving abroad, but some workers take it as a license to act like jerks.
For a four-year stretch in the mid-1930s, Shirley Temple was Hollywood's biggest box-office draw every year.
While those of us who do the egg-decorating thing will likely content ourselves with store-bought dyes and stickers this Sunday, there is a certain set of people whose Easter décor is more likely to contain rubies and diamonds. Faberge Eggs started out
It was this day in 1930 that the Motion Picture Production Code (AKA the Hays Code) went into effect, imposing a set of strict guidelines on Hollywood that are laughable today ("Revenge shall not be justified," "The use of liquor when not required by the
Most of us probably don't put too much thought into our cars' names. Sure, we'll take the wheel of a Toyota or a Chevrolet, but how did those cars pick up their monikers? Let's take a look at a few that aren't quite as obvious as the Ford name.
Starbucks is the coffee icon people either love or love to hate. Here are 10 things you might not have known about the Seattle-based company.
You may know the sound of these faceless voices, but here are the stories of the real people behind them.
Oh, _flossers, beware the Ides of March!! If only Caesar had heeded the similar warning he received the day he was assassinated (more on that in a second). You don't have to go back to the days of Caesar to find yourself a soothsayer, though "“ there ha
Quincy Jones has certainly had an interesting career. He's done everything from conducting Frank Sinatra's band to producing films to fathering TV and movie star Rashida Jones.
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Either I had a really short attention span as a kid and never made it past the first verse of a song (which is entirely possible), or there are some obscure lyrics to the songs we all know and love. Here are a few of them.