One of the particularly fun trends we’ve seen popping up around the internet is the 8-bit makeover, where an artist…

Artist Joe Mangrum has creating temporary artworks with sacks of colored sand since 2006. He’s made short-lived…

During WWII, American and British military developed a system to retrieve people following airborne operations,…

Don’t worry, there is nothing unnatural about that strange arcs of light you’ll sometimes see in the sky. Ice halos…

There’s a hidden side to many of the world’s great landmarks that you might not know about if you’ve only seen them…

The best opening titles and other screen titles are beautiful works of art — but sometimes, text can be more than…

Ivy-covered bricks buildings may be the first image that springs to mind when many people think of college, but some…

Most of us will never get to see a volcanic eruption in person, but thanks to these videos, we can not only see…

We all know the animal kingdom is incredibly violent — but what about plants? The world of plant life can be just as…

Those of us without artistic training or practice may look at a particularly realistic drawing and wonder how on…

Was The Dark Knight Rises a little too long for you? Do you find yourself consulting that peebreak app before going…

Deception was imperative during WWII, and sometimes to the trickery got very surreal. In order to distract the…

You already knew that the crab in your lunch roll wasn’t really crab — but you probably didn’t know about all the…

We like to think of books as metaphorical spaceships, able to transport us into the head of an interesting person or…

Naturally, we can’t trust propaganda videos to give us a sense of life inside another country — especially when that…

The oceans are full of life, including some creatures that are stranger than anything you could possibly imagine.…

A single abandoned building can be a gloomy thing, an apocalyptic scene in miniature. But what about when an entire…

Most of us have had a beloved pet at some point, or lived among domesticated creatures. But there’s nothing more…

Oil spills have devastating consequences, both economically and environmentally, and videos of those disasters in…

Everybody freaks out over the idea of getting bitten by a scorpion or spider — but those are nothing. Our planet…