Author: Philips Connor

When most people think of cemeteries, they picture quiet places families visit on Sundays. But some burial grounds are where something went wrong, where history … Read More ›

The ocean floor holds roughly three million shipwrecks. For at least a million of them, we still don’t know exactly what happened. That number comes … Read More ›

Visualize this: somewhere in Atlanta, a scientist in a bulky pressurized suit maneuvers through a series of sealed chambers, each door hissing closed behind them. … Read More ›

If there is one place that is still waiting to be explored, even with how advanced our technology has become, with spaceships and rockets, it … Read More ›

Global travel hit 1.4 billion international visits in 2019, and somewhere along the way, lying on a beach stopped being enough for a lot of … Read More ›

Food can be strange. What one culture considers a delicacy, another might view as downright insane to eat. But danger is not always about cultural … Read More ›

Back in 1963, a Turkish villager was renovating his cellar when he broke through to something absolutely extraordinary: Derinkuyu, a massive multi-level city carved entirely … Read More ›

Experiment is the bedrock of our modern discoveries. There is no single discovery on this planet that has not yet been experimented with by scientists … Read More ›

There’s something both impressive and a little disturbing about roads carved entirely by hand. These aren’t the smooth highways we just take for granted today. … Read More ›

There is something intensely encouraging about calling a horrifying story “just an urban legend.” It lets us sleep better at night. The idea that someone … Read More ›

Many of us in today’s world rely heavily on Google Maps without even thinking about it. You punch in an address, the blue dot guides … Read More ›

While many people search the stars for answers, there are still plenty of mysteries beneath our feet. Geologists even say we know more about Mars … Read More ›

Extreme heat can cause fatalities without obvious warning signs, such as wind or rain, while floods can inundate entire regions comparable in size to England, … Read More ›