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The Nazca Lines, a mystery etched into the Peruvian desert
In the Peruvian desert, about 400 kilometers south of Lima, lies one of the most intriguing archaeological sites on the planet: the
The Antikythera mechanism, a 2,000-year-old ancient "computer"
In 1901, Greek sponge divers explored the wreck of a Roman ship that had sunk near the small island of Antikythera, between
The Voynich manuscript, undeciphered for a century despite the best cryptographers
Among the precious collections of Yale University's Beinecke Library sits one of the most enigmatic documents ever studied by historians and cryptographers:
Antarctica, not the Sahara, is the largest desert in the world
When we hear the word desert, the collective imagination almost automatically conjures images of scorching dunes and unbearable heat, like the Sahara,
This town's border is so tangled that houses change country room by room
Straddling Belgium and the Netherlands, the small town of Baarle forms what is arguably the most complex border configuration on the planet,
The world's largest artificial islands are visible from space
Off the coast of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, stand artificial archipelagos whose scale defies imagination: millions of tons of sand
The world's shortest international border is under 100 meters long
When you think of an international border, you generally picture long lines running across entire continents, separating countries over hundreds, even thousands
Samoa flat-out erased an entire day from its calendar in 2011
There is a country where a specific date on the modern calendar simply never took place. December 30, 2011 does not exist
Kiribati redrew the international date line to see the sun first
Few people could point to Kiribati on a map, and that is entirely understandable: this island nation in the Pacific is home