Victor Lustig Sold The Eiffel Tower To A Scrap Dealer. Then He Tried To Do It Again
In 1925, a well-dressed man arrived in Paris and quietly told several scrap-metal dealers that the French government was preparing to sell the Eiffel Tower for demolition….
These Giant Arrows Once Guided Drivers Along Route 66. Then The Road Changed
For decades, two enormous arrows stood beside Route 66 in Arizona, pointing travelers toward a roadside trading post in the middle of the desert. They were impossible…
Nadine Mirada Was Told She Was Too Curvy For Modeling. Then Guess Came Calling
Nadine Mirada did not enter the international fashion world by fitting neatly into the traditional model mold. Born in Linz, Austria, she grew up dreaming of becoming…
Rhian Sugden Became One Of Britain’s Most Recognizable Glamour Models
In the 2000s, Rhian Sugden became one of the most recognizable faces of Britain’s glamour-modeling era. Her appearances in The Sun and other men’s magazines turned her…
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…