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Nora Mill Granary
Helen, Georgia

Nora Mill Granary

A historic gristmill that still produces flour and grits the old-fashioned way.
mechanical instruments

Podcast: Maillardet’s Automaton

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team July 26, 2022
Television and podcast host Alie Ward is a human lost-and-found.
parks

Reuniting a Pilot and a Lost Drone Is Some Spy-Level Stuff

It started with some serious sleuthing skills and ended with a new friendship.
Alie Ward June 30, 2022
List

25 Places Where Planes Are Right at Home on the Ground

The afterlives of aviation wonders.
Jonathan Carey March 25, 2022
Sharp MZ-80K (1979)
Helmond, Netherlands

HomeComputerMuseum

An interactive museum dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of the home computer.
Burwell-Morgan Mill
Millwood, Virginia

Burwell-Morgan Mill

Little has changed in the way that this mill operates since the 18th-century.
Close up of the Pantelegraph
Milan, Italy

Pantelegraph

Invented in the mid-19th century, this machine could send copied images via telegraph lines.
food

The Secret Lives of Kitchen Appliances

Before your favorite tools, cooking was hell.
Anne Ewbank January 11, 2022
A trio of Shyvers Multiphones from John Bennett's collection.
music

Early On-Demand Music Streaming Required Lots of Nickels

In the Pacific Northwest 70-plus years ago, a telephone-based jukebox connected callers to their favorite tunes.
Michelle Harris November 10, 2021
The recreated <em>Götheborg</em> sailed into Stockholm as part of the celebration around Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling's wedding on June 19, 2010.
sailors

To Build an 18th-Century Ship, Shipwrights Had to Remaster a Lost Craft

It took a lot of careful planning to once again bend wood with giant steam boxes.
Sarah Durn November 9, 2021
The Fairgrounds
St. Petersburg, Florida

Fairgrounds St. Pete

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.
New Orleans, Louisiana

Bevolo Gas & Electric Light Museum

This quaint museum in a long-running workshop is dedicated to a fixture in New Orleans lighting.
A local resident crosses the Apurímac River via a traditional rope bridge in Peru.
science

Peru’s Incan Rope Bridges Are Hanging by a Thread

A remarkable ancient technology and tradition that united communities in the Andes is fading into history.
Lidio Valdez and Cirilo Vivanco September 27, 2021
Bear 409, “Beadnose,” a sow that won Fat Bear Week in 2018. GIS specialist Joel Cusick is pioneering a new technique for calculating the bears’ weight that doesn’t require pulley systems and tranquilization.
science

Just How Fat Are Alaska's Most Famous Fat Bears?

As Fat Bear Week approaches, biologists share the results of a novel, noninvasive method to determine the animals' true heft.
Kylie Mohr September 22, 2023
A worker tending lettuce at Metro Farm.
Seoul, South Korea

Metro Farm

Some of the freshest vegetables in Seoul are grown in a subway station.
The first—and only—kitchen computer ever sold looked like something out of <em>Star Trek.</em>
computers

When Americans Dreamed of Kitchen Computers

The ultimate appliance turned out to be expensive and impractical.
Alex Ketchum July 21, 2021
space exploration

Podcast: Sputnik IV Crash Site

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team July 15, 2021
science

Podcast: Science That Doesn’t Stop

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange stories.
The Podcast Team June 30, 2021