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13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCXI)

1. Abandoned Detroit Ballroom, host to Jazz Royalty, may get a second chance… The Vanity Ballroom hosted jazz greats including Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald. The venue, on Detroit’s East Side has been closed for years now. This is what it looks like…. Now another one of these “impossible” projects looks…

A Quick Tour of the Remotest Island in the World

Not a single ship visited Tristan da Cunha from 1909 until 1919, until the HMS Yarmouth finally stopped by to inform the islanders of the outcome of World War I. Accessible on by sea, Tristan da Cunha is in fact an archipelago, the remotest inhabited one in the world, although only the main island was settled by man, with…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCX)

1. A Time Capsule of Medical History Discover this amazing little museum in Indiana, found on Thought & Sight. 2. The Streets of San Francisco Found on this instagram account via This isn’t Happiness. 3. London’s Abandoned system of Elevated Walkways A fascinating documentary well worth your time… 4. Miniature Facades by Drew…

The 1994 Scientology Handbook is Just as Crazy as you Imagined it to Be

In the hope of not inviting the wrath of the Scientology tech department with this article (surely they have a team of hackers on sabotage duty somewhere), I’d like to share some fascinating images from the 1994 Scientology handbook that have recently surfaced on the web… The handbook is a massive 871-page hardcover book available to buy on Amazon, featuring over 700 bizarre comic…

Uncovering the Ghost of an Iconic Department Store, the “Bloomingdales” of Paris

For ten years, one of the world’s most iconic and historic department stores sat empty along the banks of the Seine in Paris; an imposing ghostly shell of former retail splendour, a giant sleeping elephant in the room occupying prime real estate in the heart of the city. When I heard that renovation works were…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCIX)

1. Documenting the unseen designs beneath book jackets A collection by Nick Ceglia of books that have a “Cover under Cover”. 2. There is an art museum on the moon, and one of the artworks is a penis drawn by Andy Warhol Moon Museum is a small ceramic wafer three-quarters of an inch by half an…

Conscience Letters from the Cursed Thieves of Triassic Park

In the archives of a small museum in the middle of nowhere, there are piles and piles of letters from remorseful senders dating as far back as 1938. These letters were accompanied in the mail by returned pieces of petrified wood, stolen from Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park. Believing they are cursed and condemned by the karma of ancient…

You’ve Never Seen 1930s & 40s America Like This

I like to think of myself as rather familiar with the archives at the Library of Congress, but somehow I skipped over this album of 1,600+ colour slides from the 1930s and 40s, a time in history we’re so used to seeing only in black & white. These photographs are so vivid, they feel as…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CXCXVIII)

1. London Underground Posters from the 1920s From Bonhams and Library of Congress, via IO9 2. England’s 35 acre, secret subterranean Cold War City Deep beneath Wiltshire lies an abandoned fortress, strewn with old bedding, rusting machinery and stationery marked ‘top secret’. This is the Corsham bunker, where the nation’s elite would have retreated in…

Churches and their Hidden Basement Bowling Alleys

Churches have bowling alleys? Yes, they do, but they’re a dying breed. There are thought to be less than 200 churches with bowling lanes left in America today, but as early as the 1860s, they were quite common across the Midwest and parts of the Northeast. It’s not the kind of thing you expect to find…

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