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Mystery

The discrepancy pops up in the Grand Canyon, where ancient rock abuts, well, less ancient rock.

One of Geology’s Great Mysteries May Actually Be Many Smaller Mysteries

The “Great Unconformity” is a big chunk of missing deep time.

Isaac Schultz April 28, 2020

This Brazilian navy ship had a strange insect encounter during nighttime operations.

The Ecological Mystery of a Stink Bug Swarm Far Out to Sea

The chance encounter has led to insights on how insects make it to distant islands.

Erica Tennenhouse March 24, 2020

The landing.

Obake Kaidan

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

Key West, Florida

Joseph 'Bum' Farto's Desk

The former desk of Fire Chief Joseph "Bum" Farto is all that remains after his mysterious disappearance following a drug conviction.

The meat shower, here shown falling on Mrs. Crouch, caused confusion across the nation.

The Artist Trying to Explain Kentucky's 'Meat Shower' of 1876

A historical head-scratcher inspired the world's worst jelly bean flavor.

Marina Wang February 7, 2020

Stortorget Cannonball

Stockholm, Sweden

Stortorget Cannonball

Several cannonballs of mysterious origins decorate two buildings in Stortoget's main square.

Mystery Craters.

South Kolan, Australia

Mystery Craters

The 25-million-year-old cavities have perplexed people for decades.

A contemporary reported that Queen Elizabeth I translated Boethius, Plutarch, and more.

Found: A Manuscript Sloppily Edited by Queen Elizabeth I

Her Latin was impressive, but her cursive wasn't.

Isaac Schultz December 2, 2019

Permanently Closed

Cars and trams.

Fortitude Valley, Australia

'Brunswick Street'

The artist behind this historical depiction of transportation remains a mystery.

Upton Chamber.

Upton, Massachusetts

Upton Chamber

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

Eerie lights are a common sight in Clinch County, Georgia.

Searching for 'Spooklights' in Southern Georgia

This rural region may be the will-o'-the-wisp capital of America.

Shaun Raviv October 25, 2019

Beverly Hills Bermuda Triangle.

Beverly Hills, California

Beverly Hills Bermuda Triangle

One of the richest places in the United States has a cursed street.

St Cuthbert's Kirkyard Branch Sculpture.

Edinburgh, Scotland

St. John's Churchyard Branch Sculpture

The artwork mysteriously appeared within an Edinburgh cemetery.

The wreckage.

Edgartown, Massachusetts

Mysterious Chappaquiddick Shipwreck

The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.

The portal in Rivodutri.

Rivodutri, Italy

Alchemical Door of Rivodutri

A 17th-century doorway in a small Sabine village is a portal into the mysteries of alchemy.

Whatever happened here didn't just happen once.

The Bones at India's Mysterious 'Skeleton Lake' Came From All Over

New research reveals that the hundreds of anonymous dead spanned both continents and centuries.

Matthew Taub August 21, 2019

The Geographic Center of NYC is located on a traffic meridian on Queens Boulevard.

Queens, New York

Geographic Center of New York City

This mysterious marker puzzles pedestrians and infuriates geographers.

The oft-coveted Codex Argenteus, aka the Silver Bible, is now ensconced behind bulletproof glass at Sweden's Uppsala University.

objects of intrigue

What's Silver, Purple, and Very Well-Traveled?

The Codex Argenteus—a beautiful and mysterious bible from the sixth century—is now safely stowed in Sweden.

Erika Harlitz-Kern July 31, 2019