Built in the 1970s as a bomb shelter, the underground city of Dixia Cheng in Beijing, China, is often referred to as the Underground... Did You Know?
Romania An underground lake in Salina Turda, Romania, was first used to extract salt in the Middle Ages (its first documented use was in 1075)... Did You Know?
Turkey A seventh-century BC underground city discovered in Derinkuyu, Turkey, was found to contain stables, schools, chapels—even wine and olive presses. It had a 55-meter... Did You Know?
United States When the Fénykövi Elephant was unveiled for the first time at the United States’s National Museum of Natural History in 1959, guests and dignitaries... Did You Know?
Thailand Set in the Golden Triangle—the name given to the point where Laos, Myanmar and Thailand meet along the Mekon River—is a museum with an... Did You Know?
United Kingdom William Bullock, who initially trained as a jeweler, first opened a museum in Liverpool in 1795, moving it to London fourteen years later. It... Did You Know?
France What began as a student sit-in at the Sorbonne campus of the University of Paris in the spring of 1968—with protestors railing against capitalism... Did You Know?
Sudan Protests this spring in Sudan, which resulted in the ousting of longtime strongman Omar al-Bashir, began in December with high school students demonstrating against... Did You Know?
Iran Foreign leaders often encounter protests when they travel abroad. At the start of a South American tour to drum up trade in November 2009,... Did You Know?
United States “Dancing to Restore an Eclipsed Moon” is one of many images Seattle photographer Edward S. Curtis captured between 1899 and 1929, documenting Native Americans... Did You Know?
United States Until 1996, dancing was banned at the world’s largest Baptist college, Baylor University. When President Robert Sloan Jr. lifted the ban, he warned students... Did You Know?
Middle East “The Syrian cabaret-hostess, whose hair is bound back by a Grecian headband, whose quivering thighs sway to the rhythm of castanets, dances, intoxicated, voluptuous,... Did You Know?
