Articles by Molly McBride Jacobson

Oh, the places you went.

Here are 25 places to see yetis, sea monsters, Sasquatch, and other cryptids.

Edgar Allan Poe gets the recognition he deserves in the afterlife.

Echoes of the hundreds of nuclear tests conducted in Nevada during the atomic age.

Where to go for an education in grave robbery, the grisliest chapter in medical history.

The abandoned treasures of the Silver State.

A ballerina weeps over the hammer and sickle in Mao's production of "The Red Detachment of Women."

Prince Randian, a top-billed sideshow performer, did everything with his lips alone.

There are strange and beautiful creations in the desert and beyond.

They're either scaring away Old Man Winter or the Ottoman Empire.

"Sky islands," secret caves, and naturally-grown bonsai trees are only a glimpse of what Nevada has to offer.

Can you figure out this trick of early cinema?

You've probably been doing it wrong.

Spoiler: lots of egg chairs, turtlenecks, and computer servants.

During World War II, American cannery workers were urged to "beet Hitler."

The "Matryomin" is the instrument of the future.

"The skinny lady," a skeleton in fancy dress, is an unconventional usher into the afterlife.

To keep things in perspective.

Seven nuclear bunkers transformed as expressions of creativity.

A must have back-to-school item for 1960.

Bachelor number one was hiding a horrific hobby.

Where to pick up fetishes, voodoo dolls, animal bones, hexes, and curses.

The only thing more impressive might be his mullet.

Consider this your burial marker mood board.