Mädchen Amick Became A Hollywood Beauty In The 1990s — And Her Look Still Defines An Era
In the early 1990s, Mädchen Amick became one of television’s most recognizable young faces as Shelly Johnson on Twin Peaks. She was only 18 when she filmed…
A Harley-Davidson Was Swept Out To Sea In Japan. A Year Later, It Was Found In Canada
In April 2012, a man walking along a remote beach in British Columbia found something that seemed impossible: a rusted Harley-Davidson motorcycle sitting inside a battered storage…
The Porsche 550 Spyder James Dean Drove Was Built To Race — And Weighed Just 550 Kg
When Porsche introduced the 550 Spyder in the early 1950s, it was not simply building another sports car. The company was creating its first car specifically for…
You Pull Up, Plug In And Wait: What Charging An Electric Car Is Really Like
Pulling into a public charging station looks familiar at first: park the car, connect a cable and wait. But the experience is fundamentally different from filling a…
This 1934 Photo Made The Loch Ness Monster Famous. Then People Looked At It More Closely
In 1934, a photograph appeared to show something extraordinary rising from Scotland’s Loch Ness: a dark shape with a long neck and small head emerging from the…
A Ship Was Found In The Atlantic With Food, Cargo And No Crew
On December 4, 1872, sailors aboard the brigantine Dei Gratia spotted another ship drifting across the Atlantic, about 400 miles east of the Azores. It was the…
Humans Left This Arctic Weather Station 30 Years Ago. Then Polar Bears Moved In
More than 30 years ago, scientists left an isolated weather station on Kolyuchin Island in Russia’s far northeast, leaving behind empty buildings on a rocky Arctic landscape….
These 700-Pound Rocks Move Across Death Valley. Scientists Finally Saw How
Across a vast, dry lakebed in California’s Death Valley, hundreds of rocks have left long trails in the mud as if someone dragged them across the desert….
A WWII Fighter Plane Was Buried Under 268 Feet Of Ice For 50 Years. Then It Flew Again
In 1942, a Lockheed P-38 Lightning was forced to land on the Greenland ice cap after bad weather disrupted a World War II ferry mission. The pilots…
A Rare 1937 Rolls-Royce Was Forgotten For 30 Years. Then Someone Found It In A Philadelphia Warehouse
One morning in Philadelphia, a stranger pulled up beside a car dealer and asked a surprisingly simple question: “Do you want to see some old cars?” Two…