Category: History

Unusual and Marvelous Maps Alternate histories, sea monsters, weird politics Walled Cities: Keeping Out the Joneses Highlights of the defensive architecture Britain's Colorful Pub Signs, Part 1 A map to your last night adventures Postage Stamps From the Future ...and some alternative realities Flags of Forgotten Countries Don't just wave a black flag... consider your options Wonder Weapons of World War Two Made in Germany, 1940-1945 Medieval Suits of Armor vs. Weapons of Medieval Destruction Totalitarian Architecture of the Third Reich Imperial dreams... and the agony of taste Don't Know Much About... Awesome Tidbits of Information! KABOOM! Biggest Blasts in History Largest Non-Nuclear Explosions Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines Slightly Mad Concepts of Early Aviation Project "Orion": Powered by an Atomic Bomb Machine Gun NASA's most radical killer asteroid defense The Last Victorian Leviathan Steam Ship An Iron Monster, framed by white sails and black smoke The Biggest Guns in Human History It's not the size that matters... or is it? Cold War Echo: Gas Masks What would Joker wear? The Weirdest Examples of Mass Hysteria Laughter Epidemic, Monster Specters, etc. Shipwrecks & Sea Disasters The Beauty & the mystery of the wrecked ships Fear & Loathing inside Abandoned Stalin's Mines Fire & Ice Underground Russian Imperial Faberge Eggs Nestled Wonders, killed by Revolution Gas Mask Fashion, Part 2 History wears a gas mask The New Motor, or The Steam-Powered Messiah A locomotive "god" from the Victorian times The Plain of Jars: Bombs & Mystery in Laos Enigmatic stone jars of a deeply spooky nature Giant Iceberg Aircraft Carrier Strange Dream of a Frozen Navy When Weather Changed History The power of nature revealed in historic events Modernist Art in Camouflage Naval fleets as the largest painting canvases in the world. Strange Tanks, Part 2 Colossal and Unthinkable Monsters Vintage New York Marvel Age: The City of Superheroes Ballistic News Fear & Loathing Inside Missile Launch Bases September 11 Premonitions Uncanny pre-2001 coincidences Most Unusual Books From Codex Seraphinianus to pulp sculptures The Biochemical "Oops" List Welcome to Weirdsville: "I don't feel so good..." Abandoned Tunnels & Vast Underground Spaces Urban Exploring at its best The Thermonuclear "Oops" List Good Night... and Good Luck to us all Communist Gothic: Architecture by Yakov Chernikhov Soaring Palaces of Communism in Gothic Style Strange Towers of the Third Reich Hide from bombs above ground, not under it. Cold War: Gas Mask Fashions Close Calls of the Nuclear Age Retro Technology: Cold War Phones Plus Dialup Computer Mods Moscow: Futuristic Concepts from 1900 (!) If not for the October Revolution... Strange Tanks Biggest, smallest and just plain weird tanks WWII Nazi' Tank Manuals Unexpectedly hilarious! Stalin's Cherished Personal Possessions Humankind's worst tyrant lived in self-imposed ascetism The Amazing Lighthouse of Henry Winstanley The Whimsical Lighthouse