Random encounters with the unusual

The piece of pottery pictured below caught my eye during a visit to the National Museum of Scotland. The caption that accompanied the jar st...

The recent election of the new Pope reminded me of my visit to the home of an Antipope, the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Palais des Pap...

I first heard of the village of Oradour-sur-Glane when I read a book that suggested that the events that occurred there during World War II ...

As you enter the Natural History Museum in London you may notice a relief of a man holding a rifle, which adorns the far wall overlooking th...

The Devil's Golf Course is a salt flat in Death Valley (part of the Mojave Desert), where crystallised salts form a complex and jagged l...

Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer ('Saint Marys of the Sea') is a town situated on the south coast of France in the Camargue Region. One of ...

If you know where to look in Charing Cross Road you can see evidence of a street that used to intersect Charing Cross Road, but which is now...