animals
What Is This Mysterious Object That Washed Up on a New Zealand Beach?
Probably just very impressive driftwood!
Articles by Sarah Laskow
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Stories
Stories shared by this traveler.
cars
When Mother Teresa Met With New York's Mayor to Lobby for a Parking Permit
Parking in New York City is so opaque, understanding how it works is like unlocking a secret code.
animals
Found: A Spray-Painted Electric Blue Tortoise
He was scrubbed clean and left with only a "slight blue hue."
dinosaurs
Found: A One-of-a-Kind Dinosaur Tail Preserved in Amber, With Its Feathers
It is “an astonishing fossil," says the paleontologist who found it.
islands
Two People Found a Brand New Island And Claimed It As Their Own
But "Rosmic Island" may already have a name.
news
Earth's 'Rarest Geological Sample' Could Tell the Future of Greenland's Ice Sheet
A new study shows that the ice sheet could be much less stable than we should hope.
animals
Thousands of Unlucky Geese Landed in the Toxic Berkeley Pit And Are Now Dead
A snowstorm drove 10,000 geese to their doom.
tombs
Found: A Roman Tombstone Buried in the New York City Suburbs
Dated 54 A.D., it belonged to a tax collector.
theaters
The Famous Actress Who Loved Playing a Rooster
Maude Adams was known for being Peter Pan, but her favorite role was that of a preening French rooster.
holidays
Found: Two Gold Coins From 1947, Dropped in a Salvation Army Bucket
Each one is worth $1,400.
libraries
Growing Up in a Library Is Exactly As Magical As You'd Imagine
Ronald Clark and his daughter spent years living in one of New York City's branch libraries.
magic
Found: A River Humans Started Polluting 7,000 Years Ago
Playing with metal and fire led to unusual concentrations of copper on a streambank.
animals
Found: A Turtle That’s Basically a Dinosaur, Stuck in a Drain Pipe
An alligator snapping turtle got himself into a predicament.
abandoned
The Haunting Street Art Adorning Havana’s Oldest Buildings
Artist Yulier Rodriguez is filling Cuba's capital with melancholic alien creatures.
animals
Found: Ancient Elephant Fossils Hidden Beneath L.A.'s New Subway
The city is full of fossils.
animals
Found: A 2,000-Year-Old Cemetery Full of Pet Cats
At least 86 were buried here.
maps
Here Are the Real Boundaries of American Metropolises, Decided by an Algorithm
How is the U.S. actually split geographically?
news
Found: A Bucket of Gold on the Streets of Manhattan
Never leave gold unattended.
abandoned
There Are Hundreds of Secret Underground WWII Bases Hidden in British Forests
Built to fight a Nazi invasion, they remained unknown for decades.
secret passages
Found: Secret Sliding Doors Hidden in a Church’s Walls
A renovation revealed the pulley system meant to move them.
maps
Found: An Intricate 17th-Century Map, Stuffed Into a Chimney
It was in terrible shape.
politics
New York City's History of Resistance, in One Riotous Map
New Yorkers rebelled dozens of times between 1712 and 2013.
holidays
Read the Original Pitch for Thanksgiving, From the Editress Who Created the Holiday
Sarah Josepha Hale imagined a day of Christian celebration.
churches
Found: Very Old Peacock Graffiti Left Behind by Religious Pilgrims
Peacocks represented eternal life to early Christians.
