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Fossil plants millions of years old are helping scientists imagine an ancient Arctic forest.

Imagine a calendar that is the same every year — sort of.

Two hundred men and women fought to protect the last wild sohisika trees.

Just ink and colored pencil, it took Anton Thomas almost five years.

Before the paper variety, nuts, hops, and dates rained down — and put out the occasional eye.

Desperate English bottle-makers turning to a new fuel resulted in a sparkling innovation.

Issa Kassisieh has turned his centuries-old family home into a Christmas wonderland.

Of all the variations on the beloved character, Russia's Ded Moroz might have the strangest history.

Omsk was promised a Metro system in 1979. Forty years later, locals salute a subway that never saw the light of day.

The photographer is a skateboarder, but there's not a board in sight.

One cunning business maneuver created a tradition and saved a franchise.

A community of feminist crafters grapples with a patriotic quilt that a 99-year-old nurse left behind.

Despite the tidy beauty of the image, this was a frustrating year for North Dakota's corn farmers.

The Tar Heel State is the intertidal zone of the linguistic South: Overwhelming forces wash in and out, but weird, fascinating little tide pools remain.

You could own the busiest watering hole for miles.

The image is simple and haunting. Ten enslaved African-American people stand in front of a two-story, white clapboard building, some with baskets of cotton on top of their heads. A boy bows his head in the lower-left corner, his back to the camera. It's a quarter-plate daguerreotype, a little larger than a deck of cards but brimming with details

"It is interesting that radiation has shape. It has physicality. It operates at a specific frequency that can be recorded, if only we could place ourselves in a position to see it."

A volcanic gorge in remote Kamchatka has given up some of its secrets — but not all of them.

In the 1980s, during the Iran-Iraq War, Saddam Hussein became obsessed with the Babylonian ruler Nebuchadnezzar. He saw himself as a modern reincarnation of Nebuchadnezzar, and to prove it, he spent millions building a massive reconstruction of Babylon.

Once, Americans rode the rails for charbroiled steak, golden French toast and prunes.